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I refer to this article while designing for mobile - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
>4 tap operation Click dropdown, select item >Stepper Click +, click +, click +, click +, click +, click +, click + wut
1 tap to select the input field
1 swipe to move the desired item into view (I guess this is a tap)
1 tap to select the desired item
1 tap to move on to the next field using the arrow utilities, or one tap for "Done"
That's four.
This reminds me of one of my pet peeves about the iOS UI - the date picker control. Yes, the scrolly spinners are a very cute UI and look awesome. But it'd be 10x faster if they'd just give me a number pad and let me hit the 8 digits rather than scroll up and down to get it just right.
When I click on an image on the page to zoom on it, it redirect me to twitter, then I have to click on it again, why ?
There is a small irony that when reading an article about mobile UX, the website has disabled zoom meaning I can't actually see any of the images in the article.
Skype has the most egregious dropdown - country code with 200 menu items - when it would be so much easier to type the country code along with the number.
This reminds me of one of my pet peeves about the iOS UI - the date picker control. Yes, the scrolly spinners are a very cute UI and look awesome. But it'd be 10x faster if they'd just give me a number pad and let me hit the 8 digits rather than scroll up and down to get it just right.
But forces the user to make more inputs and adds cognitive overhead. I think you'll find that many users would disagree with you.
IMHO the best option for inputting a small integer value is the combination of a text field and a stepper, which has been around for a long time and has its own name (for touchscreen operation, the +/- buttons could be made larger and horizontally, like the steppers shown): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner_(computing) For dates, a calendar control would probably be appropriate. I'm a bit puzzled as to why dropdo…
On iOS I could three steps: 1. tap dropdown to select 2. scroll list 3. tap 'Done' But with any list of significant length (the reason you would use a dropdown in the first place) you'll probably need a few actions to scroll to the right item.
None of the options he shows in the article works well there.
There is a small irony that when reading an article about mobile UX, the website has disabled zoom meaning I can't actually see any of the images in the article.
There is a small irony that when reading an article about mobile UX, the website has disabled zoom meaning I can't actually see any of the images in the article.
Not sure if Safari has something similar though.