Create with Context recently brought iPhone users to its Silicon Valley lab to observe them using iPhone apps. They found that poor app design can drive users crazy.
“There’s a set of guidelines [developers] can get from Apple that say here’s what icons you should use for these type of functions and here’s how you should lay them out,” says Bill Westerman, principal and CTO of Create with Context, a design and research firm. “This gets you 70 percent of the way there, but then there’s this other 30 percent that are de facto standards which have evolved over time.”
The Five Most Annoying App Design Flaws
1. Aggravating app and button inconsistencies
2. If I Tap this, what will happen?
3. I didn’t tap that damn button!
4. Where are my visual cues?
5. Ugly icons on the Home screen
Hit up the link below to read a detailed explanation of these flaws...
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“There’s a set of guidelines [developers] can get from Apple that say here’s what icons you should use for these type of functions and here’s how you should lay them out,” says Bill Westerman, principal and CTO of Create with Context, a design and research firm. “This gets you 70 percent of the way there, but then there’s this other 30 percent that are de facto standards which have evolved over time.”
The Five Most Annoying App Design Flaws
1. Aggravating app and button inconsistencies
2. If I Tap this, what will happen?
3. I didn’t tap that damn button!
4. Where are my visual cues?
5. Ugly icons on the Home screen
Hit up the link below to read a detailed explanation of these flaws...
Read More [CIO]