Things move quickly in the mobile app universe. To succeed in the field of mobile UX design, designers must have the foresight and prepare for new challenges around the corner.
To simplify the task, I’ve listed the biggest, impactful trends for 2018 and, most likely, beyond.
https://uxplanet.org/12-mobile-ux-design-trends-for-2018-5b4ce7e8445f/
Given the importance of speed as a metric, Google at Mobile World Congress is introducing new tools to help mobile sites improve their end-user experiences. The first is a comparison tool, while the second helps calculate the monetary impact of speed.
https://9to5google.com/2018/02/26/google-speed-scorecard-and-impact-calculator-tool/
Google has made mobile page speed a priority for the past couple of years. It introduced Accelerated Mobile Pages in October 2015 as part of a broad initiative to speed up web browsing on mobile devices. The following year, the company emphasized websites that used AMP more prominently in its search results and on Google News, per TechCrunch.
https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/google-will-rank-faster-mobile-pages-higher/515012/
Mobile traffic has already surpassed desktop traffic online. More than half of all traffic is from smartphones and tablets now.
Plus, 79 percent of global internet traffic will be mobile by the end of 2018.
And it’s no secret that Google places a big importance on mobile.
Mobile is critical in today’s world. But just having a mobile site doesn’t mean you are free from potential issues.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/site-ready-google-mobile-first-index/240927/
It is easy to simply list the do’s and don’ts of mobile user onboarding. Do indicate progress and flow length, don’t overwhelm the user. Don’t ask permissions right away, do allow users to skip tutorials, etc.
We humans, especially product managers and UX designers, are visual beings, are we not? So what better way to absorb some valuable onboarding best practices than to show you some stellar, real-life examples of mobile user onboarding?
https://usabilitygeek.com/mobile-user-onboarding-examples/
At Mopinion, we are proud to announce the release of a new mobile feedback SDK for companies collecting customer feedback in iOS and Android apps. This innovative solution will continue to provide marketers with an easy way of gathering powerful feedback within their native apps, only now with more customisation options, a wider range of targeting features based on in-app user behaviour and more advanced analysis capabilities.
Developed in response to an increasing demand from the market, this new SDK provides mobile developers and mobile product managers with a flexible and easy-to-install solution for in-app feedback.
https://mopinion.com/mopinion-releases-new-mobile-sdk-in-app-feedback/
PWAs allow users to have the experience of an app without having to download one.
By now, you’ve probably heard that Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are the next big thing. Experts believe that they’ll push the mobile web forward, bring parity to web and native apps and provide mobile specific capabilities to web users.
So what are Progressive Web Apps, exactly?
https://www.itproportal.com/features/progressive-web-apps-why-theyre-revolutionising-the-user-experience/
Mobile animation can make a web or mobile app pop. Learn these 5 must know UI animations and play with our 3 free downloadable examples.
https://uxplanet.org/prototyping-mobile-ui-animations-examples-free-downloads-26ba0e0b2073/
Samsung’s foldable phone has become a mystery that will not be solved until next year. Samsung’s mobile president DJ Koh has recently given an interview to the world’s most popular tech news outlet Cnet and said that the company is making progress on the foldable phone, rumored as Galaxy X.
https://www.techjuice.pk/samsungs-foldable-phone-best-user-experience-president-dj-koh/
If we look back through history, many of the greatest technological innovations have necessitated change – especially among businesses. Take the internet, for example. The World Wide Web went live a little over twenty-five years ago and took the business world by storm. Andy Grove, the chairman of Intel even said, ‘In five years time, all companies will be Internet companies, or they won’t be companies at all’.
https://mopinion.com/top-11-best-mobile-in-app-feedback-tools-an-overview/