Making the case for moving your navigation to the bottom of the screen on mobile:
Phones are getting bigger, and some parts of the screen are easier to interact with than others. Having the hamburger menu at the top provides too big of an interaction cost, and we have a large number of amazing mobile app designs that utilize the bottom part of the screen. Maybe it’s time for the web design world to start using these ideas on websites as well?
Two observations of websites on mobile devices today:
- They are beautifully designed, with great typography, clear branding, all optimized for readability.
- I had to install Firefox, Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin, as well as manually select and remove additional elements such as subscription overlays.
Both observations are the result of conscious design decisions.
An interesting proposal to allow websites to detect certain SMS messages. The UX implications are fascinating.
Luke continues to tilt against the windmills of the security theatre inertia that still has us hiding passwords by default. As ever, he’s got the data to back up his findings.
Designing primarily in a laptop web browser and testing with a mouse rather than fingers may come to look very out of date soon.
I concur completely with Luke’s assessment here. Most password-masking on the web is just security theatre. Displaying password inputs by default (but with an option to hide) should be the norm.
Trying to get the balance right between discoverability and intrusiveness.
The only way to win is not to play.
Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
A presentation at An Event Apart Chicago 2019.
Incrementally improving the perceived performance of Ajax interactions.
# Liked by Chris M. on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 at 10:26am