If yes, you might have noticed that most of the UI elements in that app are located out of the reach of your thumb.
So, any app and website that is not easy to navigate with the thumb are basically not designed for thumbs.
The trend of bigger screen
After ignoring the popularity of bigger screens for many years, Apple finally left its conservative approach and succumbed to the growing trend of larger screen devices.
Already the bandwagon of large screen devices was stronger, and now as the industry leader, Apple decided to follow the trend.
The coinage of the term mobile thumb zone now became commonplace among designers.
You have figured out your business branding strategy, your financial model and target market and how you are going to market that product all over cyberspace.
And you do have options here:
Door Number One: Lots of friends will tell you how they know of entrepreneurs who have created their own websites and apps and had them up and running in half a day – complete with menus, page links, text/content, images, and even a shopping cart.
But when you begin to ask the deeper questions, like is it responsive for iPhone and Android access, and what tools are best to use, they become strangely silent.
It’s not just a question of time – it’s about getting the product that will work, that is appealing, and that will give your customers the best experience ever when they visit, consider what you offer, and hopefully make some purchasing/upgrade decisions.
And don’t forget that when you look for individual UX designers for hire, you have to make sure that they can further collaborate with the developers you’ll hire to code your product.
Just like your store, your app is a vast space where you need to make certain that your customers’ time spent is worthwhile, but there are things within our reach which sometimes hinder our capability to cater to them like UX.
There are some 8 common UX mistakes that every app developer makes which clearly repel users from coming back to your platform.
It is certain that the year 2018 will bring new challenges and opportunities for the UI design industry.
In the current age of machine learning, VR or VUI (Voice User Interface), and AR, we can expect the following trends to become more popular in 2018 and beyond.
A few of these trends are already in practice as the designers have started putting their efforts in making the user experience more lifelike and personalized since the year 2016. Pokémon Go is an epitome of such efforts.
All these trends indicate the fact that the lifeless experience will no longer prevail as the user passes through the paradigm shift from seeing to experiencing things.
Let us go through these top seven UI design trends: