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Onboarding $234.1M style: Monday’s activation flow

Our readers develop and run Apps in competitive markets. Even once “safe” corporates like banks now compete with mobile-first “Neobanks” crafting Apps that are disrupting the oligarchy. So how do you compete with a large funded competitor? They could be a big corporate or a Blitzscaling startup. In this webinar, Scott Middleton and I examine →

Mobile Tooltips: the unobtrusive UX pattern to deepen engagement

Remember Clippy? Perhaps you’d rather not! Clippy was Microsoft’s “Office Assistant” and became universally derided. Here are 5 reasons why people hated Clippy: Obtrusive – power users hated Clippy because it had patronizing suggestions. Distracting – the image at right (without the gun) is literally Clippy looking bored and wanting you to stop your job →

Has Material Design nailed Mobile Tooltips?

I received a question from a recent uxdesign.cc post on Cognitive Overload in mobile app design. (It was a variant of my last post here). Has Material Design already answered the need for reducing cognitive overload? Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences. This initiative from Google →

The peculiar lure of launchers for App engagement

Cognitive overload in mobile Apps is a real problem for designers. My general rule-of-thumb for a well-designed mobile App is to assume the user’s IQ is halved. This is not intended as malicious or critical of users, its a recognition that mobile apps serve people on the run, getting out of cars, crossing streets – →