Little Springs Design has started publishing design patterns for mobile devices (primarily targetting mobile phones for both web and native applications). So far, six twelve have been published.
“Keypresses should be kept to a minimum for common actions. Unlike a desktop, a keypress is not simply a mouse click, but the number of times the cursor has to be moved to get to a command, then the command itself. For a Gmail message, for example, getting to “Archive” or “Next Message” can be ten or more keypresses. Numbered access allows that to be one keypress, although it is restricted to users who choose to learn more about the application. On the other hand, numbers do not harm usability by novices and indeed provide visual cues that certain commands are somehow different.”
Link: UI design patterns (littlespringsdesign.com)
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Thanks for the mention! In the meantime, there are 12 patterns posted, not 6. Use the “previous entries” link at the bottom.
Posted 13 Dec 2006 at 5:21 am ¶Thanks for the tip – fixed the post. -g
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