3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
3 Design Considerations for Effective MobileApp Permission Requests
3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
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What Are Permission Requests and Why Have Them?
An app must request permission before accessing resources such as the camera, current location, or microphone, on the user’s mobile device. The app sends (via the operating system) a request in the form of a modal dialog, asking the user to grant or decline access.
Google Translate requires access to the microphone to use the dictation feature; iOS (left) and Android (right) permission requests differ slightly.
There are slight differences in how these requests are presented across mobile operating systems. As you can see from the example above, in iOS the user is asked for access to the microphone, whereas in Android...
For mobile apps, it's usually a good idea to have an "application home" that users can return to as a safe base after exploring the apps various areas. This is particularly important for content-rich apps, such as magazines or newspapers. Used this way, the "home" button serves as a generic
Pre Uber we were all plagued with standing on the corner, possibly in the rain, belongings in hand while attempting to wave down one of the few free taxis. (The worse the rain, the fewer the taxis — that’s a law of nature.) An abundance of unknowns adding further anxiety: how much is it going
Salini Impregilo has four major social sections with clear content types; this helps users understand what is acceptable to post. These include: employee selfies, a discussion forum, a corporate-vocabulary wiki, and contests to stimulate creativity. The company’s intranet also displays the names
The Blockchain Talent Shortage May Be Nearing Its End
The blockchain offers a number of advantages over similar technologies—namely, it’s fast, it’s cheap, and it’s decentralized. The problem is, it can’t have all three of these qualities at once. For example, if you want a fast and decentralized platform, it’s not going to be cheap to
IoT solution to supply chain management
Currently, IoT startup space is getting to the point of being saturated with each aiming to provide solutions in niche areas. Tive, Evrythng and Discovery are few of the IoT based solution providers in the supply chain. While Tive focuses solely on providing SCM solution using a tracker and a
Can the blockchain and IoT solve international freight’s issues?
DS: The main technological innovation of IOTA is the Tangle, which is a completely new Blockchain design that gets rid of the blocks and introduces a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) (NOTE: you can read the whitepaper on this technology at http://iotatoken.com/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf). The way the Tangle
The Attention Economy
In our recent studies on voice assistants, we found that people often used phone-based assistants while driving, when their hands and eyes were busy. One common complaint was that Siri or Google Assistant displayed results on the phone’s screen instead of reading them out loud. For example, even
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Experience Design: Bridging Brand Intention and Brand Interpretation
Designers extended these elements to create user interactions that aligned with Google brand attributes. The dot animations that reflect the “expressions” of listening, thinking, replying, incomprehension, and confirmation not only serve as a way to indicate system status (remember, this is one
3 Design Considerations for Effective Mobile-App Permission Requests
Google Maps for iOS: An unexpected system-initiated request to access the media library appears when the user is about to tap Start to navigate to a local hotel. The user is left wondering how Google Maps would use that permission (the answer is: to display the details of the currently playing song
Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
Each link in this list fully contains the most important content that users will find if they select it — for example, Marriage, civil partnership, and divorce. The descriptive text beneath this link is useful, but entirely supplementary: Includes getting married abroad, decree absolutes, and
Show Prices for Common Scenarios
In this case, you have at least two options. You could offer a configurator that lets hospital administrators estimate the exact supplies and their prices. This option might help users who are motivated to engage deeply with the site, but it would also be fairly complicated and time-consuming to
Profit Maximization vs. User Loyalty
The classic example used in most presentations about differential pricing is to monitor a user as he or she is moving through a site. If they just keep looking instead of putting something into the shopping cart, then the user is considered unlikely to buy at the current prices and is offered a
Recapping the State of the Word 2018
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StudioPress Theme Spotlight: New Breakthrough Pro
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re extra excited to bring you this new StudioPress Theme: Breakthrough Pro, which is the first new theme to be launched since our acquisition of StudioPress in June. Breakthrough Pro
Introducing Revolution Pro, the First Block-Based Genesis Theme
Using the new Gutenberg post editor with Revolution Pro, developers and designers are able to create custom, reusable modules for design and content. As we continue to release new block-based themes, we hope users will find it easier to dive into their creative projects more quickly and build
Killing Off the Global Navigation: One Trend to Avoid | Nielsen Norman Group
The temptation to put navigation menus into a drop-down is understandable: it allows much more flexibility to adjust categories in the future, and also means you don't have to clutter up your design with a menu bar. Plus, it’s an easy solution if you want to use the same design across multiple
How Channels, Devices, and Touchpoints Impact the Customer Journey
Every organization will have its own set of relevant channels that make up its unique omnichannel ecosystem. Some organizations like banks and retail stores will rely heavily on physical locations, while internet-based companies may not have these physical channels at all, but support a multitude
Storyboards Help Visualize UX Ideas
For example, a team improving a login flow (buttons, autofill, and/or a progression bar) can use the storyboard as a summary and reminder of the existing roadblocks in the process. If the images in the storyboard show that the user was frustrated when clicking the login button, but had no issues
In an Experiential-Obsessed Marketplace, Surkus Uses Tech to Stand Out
But good information is there for the taking. George points to concerts as an example: If a concert producer spent the majority of his budget on the closing act and the grand finale fireworks, but 40 percent of concertgoers left two hours before the encore, Surkus can provide that data to the
An Insider’s 11 Take-Aways from Companies Winning Industrial (IIoT) Cybersecurity
One of the more interesting areas now being explored: public ledgers. A growing number of companies are looking at Blockchain public ledger technologies to help authenticate assets and provide an audit trail with end-to-end chain of custody. (Industry groups are getting involved too—the Trusted
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Melissa Hathaway came across our radar recently when President Obama tasked the former Bush administration aide with leading a 60-day review of Bush’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; a largely classified, purported $30 billion, multi phase plan to address cybersecurity issues
How to Use Cornerstone Content to Kick-start Automatic-SEO?
Pick a WordPress theme or a custom theme that comes with meta tags defined at the bottom of every page. The meta tags should be clickable, and it should lead to a search page that looks part of the website. I would suggest looking at blogging templates. If you don’t like this sort of a theme
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Despite What You Hear, You Don’t Need VC Funding
Selling a product is much harder when the benefits are dubious or when the use cases are atypical. When you create a product of value that solves a common customer pain point, you’ve done three-quarters of your sales job. It can take years to create this value, partly because it can take years to
How to Manage Conflict at Work
Some people love to make a scene and let everybody know that their feelings were hurt. However, this is a sure-fire way to escalate the problem rather than solve it because you involve others in the office by letting them know what the conflict is all about. Letting others know about conflict is a
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Customer-Service Information on Websites: The Hub-and-Spoke Model
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