User Identity – Part 1

Sometimes it is necessary to validate a user’s identity in order to provide access to sensitive information within an app. The traditional mechanism of a username and password has always been rather clunky on mobile because of small screens and soft keyboards. However with the arrival of hardware such as fingerprint scanners arriving on devices,…

App UI / UX – Part 6

Previously in this series we’ve looked at various ways in which we can improve the experience for our user in terms of both simple aesthetics (making the app look nicer) and improving the controls and navigation through the app. In this final article in the series, we’ll focus on how we can speed the user…

App UI / UX – Part 5

Previously in this series we’ve looked at improving the ActionBar behaviour of our temperature app, but there’s another annoyance that we can fix by tinkering with the ActionBar: When the user performs a bluetooth device discovery scan there is no visual indication that the scan is in progress, and more importantly when the scan completes.…