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...
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Of the five guidelines for the development process (study the characteristics of the user population, have user representatives participate during the process, run thinking aloud tests of the interface, use iterative techniques such as prototyping, and have an appointed coordinator for the entire
After many years of being chastised for being unhelpful, online help went out of fashion. This was reinforced by the idea that an interface should stand on its own, and not need help to be usable. This year, however, we saw a resurgence of Help that is helpful. While the winning-intranets’ mostly
Can Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Alone Save $2 Trillion in Preventing Cybercrime?
It’s through smart contracts that transactions can be made whilst their details can be kept both transparent and secure. Writing about their new smart contracts-based Ethereum trading platform, Confideal stated: “To put it simply, code is not law, but smart contracts created on a platform
Stop Focusing on Cryptocurrencies Problems. Consider its Future.
Unfortunately, would-be entrepreneurs like to throw a crypto component atop haphazard tech architecture to generate buzz. Make sure crypto will add value to your business processes. Exercise caution around proponents, and ask to see demonstrated cases. At the very least, a crypto partner or
5 Real Life Blockchain Implementations Outside of Cryptocurrency
Medicalchain aims to use blockchain technology to securely store medical records. Using a distributed ledger for healthcare is a godsend as it allows doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists, and health insurers to have more immediate access to health records, which could help save lives
Large Devices Preferred for Important Tasks
This data says that people tend to do important tasks on the bigger screen, but it doesn’t tell us why they do it. It could be that many of the important tasks are not supported on mobile devices. Or, more likely, it could be that the overall experience of doing these tasks on mobile is perceived
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Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
For example, one link from Emory University’s homepage reads, Restoring vision and hope. What does that mean? Hope for what? Vision for the future? The meaning only becomes clear when the text below the link is read. That descriptive text is necessary for the reader to understand that the link
Browser and GUI Chrome
What do we mean when talking about the "chrome" in a user interface design? An attendee asked this question during a recent course on Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet. Whenever someone asks us a basic question, I assume that many more people want the answer as well — and thus, this article on
Why People Shop on the Web
A site that emphasizes sales too much will turn away users (remember that "no sales pressure" was listed by 39% of shoppers as an important benefit of the Web). Most of the time, users want to research products or find other specific information. So don't despair if your server statistics show many
Informational Articles Must Ask For the Order
The Iams kitten food page contained a clear link to Feeding Tips for Growing Kittens , which was highly attractive: all of our test users clicked it. The article was also very interesting and informative: all users scrolled through four screens of text. At the bottom of this fairly large page
Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives
From conducting decades of user research, we know that people dislike popups and modals. I was reminded of this fact during a recent usability study. While attempting to complete a task, a participant tossed his phone across the table after encountering multiple popups, consecutively. Frustrated
Fortune Names WP Engine a Best Place to Work in 2018 .
At WP Engine, we believe our people are the core of every success, award, milestone and every achievement. That’s because employees who truly feel empowered and validated by their workplace are energized to delight and inspire the customer in every interaction. When new employees walk through the
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International Study by WP Engine Reveals Enterprise Investment Lags Today's Mobile-First Consumer
WP Engine is the WordPress Digital Experience Platform that gives companies of all sizes the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted
WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Named as 2019 Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award Honoree
The results clearly showed companies that welcome ideas from all employees have better growth prospects than those with a less-inclusive approach to innovation. In fact, businesses that successfully create an “Innovation By All” culture see revenue growth that is 5.5x greater than others, as
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
If the same error occurs repeatedly (usually 3 times or more in a single form-filling attempt), it is often an indication of a serious problem in the user interface. Quite possibly, your error messages are insufficiently helpful, but there could also be another mismatch between the design and
Eartracking: A New UX-Research Method
A second technology advance now allows us to turn micromovement video streams into true eartracking and tell where the user’s attention is directed. A machine-learning algorithm has been trained with 10,000 hours of video recordings from our most recent eartracking study, during which we tracked
This finding has implications for the choice of recommender engine. Let’s say you’re running a streaming video site with a page layout that allows you to show only two recommended movies to each user. You have the choice between two recommendation algorithms: Algorithm A selects two movies that
AI-Based Framework for Agile Project Management
Artificial Intelligence has transformed how every business functions and software development is not exempted from it. Machine learning has helped to accelerate the traditional software development lifecycle as artificial intelligence redefines how developers build products. Usually, software
How to Upgrade Your Cyber Defenses to Protect Growth
No company is eager to spend more on cybersecurity, but isn’t the investment worthwhile if it keeps the doors open? All companies need to periodically review how much they budget for security within the context of the current threat landscape. Best practices suggest spending at least a few
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
4 Ways Early Stage CTOs Can Learn to Roll With the Punches
In some instances, the CTO is a chief engineer who takes a hands-on approach to product development; other times; a CTO is a VP of engineering who is charged with hiring a team and designing the processes and culture necessary to turn business needs into deployed products. And then there are
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A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
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The Role of Enhancement in Web Design
Sometimes an enhancement proves so useful that it morphs from being something extra to being the main way of accomplishing an interaction. The scroll wheel is a good example of this evolution: early commercial mice didn’t include a scroll wheel (though a few research-lab prototypes did). The
Overuse of Overlays: How to Avoid Misusing Lightboxes
Overlays are also commonly used to confirm user actions or to help users make simple selections. This is problematic because we’ve been trained by the many pop-ups and unimportant overlays we encounter on other websites to dismiss a modal window as soon as it appears. When we actually run into
Scrolling and Attention (Jakob Nielsen's Original Research Study)
For each specialized topic, it's perfectly valid to target a study and test sites that have features that we want to investigate. For example, to gain insight into carousels for our navigation seminar, we should track users' eyes as they encounter carousels. To do this, we simply ask them to use a
