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Need-to-Know Skills of UI Design for Mobile Devices

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Have you meet some problems on the UI design for mobile devices? For example, small mobile screens? Bad user experience? In this article, I will cover some things you can do to learn practical user interface design ( UI design ). 1. UI design principle Don’t think the practical  UI design  principle does not apply to small mobile screens. Five elements of UI design you should take into consideration: 1). Goal-driven Design. This allows you to customize the app working process and meet requirements for target users. 2). Usability. It may look empty, but you have to guarantee your application is usable. Users don’t like to download a complex app from App Store. Usability makes your product useful and hopeful. 3). Affordance & Signifiers. The signifier is an implication of affordance.For example, underlined blue text reminds you it’s a hyperlink, and it can link to other pages when you click it. With correct signifier, users can easily understand UI eleme...

Top 9 UI Design Trends for Mobile Apps in 2018

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Mobile app User Interface design  trends keep changing based on varying user needs. However, that does not mean UI design trends for mobile apps  in 2018 could not be predicted. Actually, after carefully analyzing UI design trends and innovations in the past few years, we could find some laws behind and predict the possible trends that will also continue into the following 2018. Hence, here we will share top 9 UI design trends of mobile App for you in 2018: 1). Overlapping effects The overlapping of fonts, graphics and colors cannot only make UI designs more eye-catching and distinctive, but also create a sense of space. And that’s also why overlapping of different mobile app UI design elements has been widely used by designers in recent years. Moreover, in some cases, the overlapping of the same elements, combining with shadows, will also make the whole mobile app interface designs more fantasy and impressive. Hence, the overlapping of different elements in mobile ap...

6 Must-Know GUI Design Principles to Make You an Excellent UI Designer

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popularity of GUI, few application programs have good interface design and live up to graphic  user interface design principles . Additionally, it’s extremely difficult to use the expertise and existing documents to explain what an excellent and direct-viewing operation interface is. Here are 8  GUI design principles . 1.Know more about your users. This one of GUI design principles suggests that Apps should be able to reflect the characteristics of their users’ thoughts and behaviors. Developers ought to know people first to fully know their users for the commonalities between the two. It’s easier to learn through identification than through rote memorization. Ordinary people can remember around 2,000 to 3,000 words only, but identify more than 50,000 words. Consequently it would better to make users remember key buttons rather than provide a list or data value for users to choose from. 2.Be careful about different perspectives of understanding. Many designers ...