Mobile technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. To help keep up, we pulled together relevant insights about the mobile user experience and mobile usage in general. This is an updated article to the 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2013 articles based on published data and our own mobile UX research. Cellphones are ubiquitous. A Pew Research
Mobile technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. To help keep up, we pulled together relevant insights about the mobile user experience and mobile usage in general. This is an updated article to the 2016, 2015, and 2013 articles based on published data and our own mobile UX research. Cellphones are ubiquitous. A Pew Research report
The typical mobile website experience is horrible. Everyone knows that, right? Sure, it’s easy to find some terrible mobile website experiences, but are mobile websites systematically worse that their desktop counterparts? Now that 80% of all adults who go online own a smartphone this is an important question to answer. Mobile websites often look like
As companies continue to focus on improving the usability of their mobile websites and applications, testing these interfaces can feel a lot like testing websites in 1996–lots of surprises, unfamiliar conventions, workarounds, and frustrations. While conducting a usability test on a mobile device shares a lot of the same characteristics as a desktop usability study,
What would happen if you gave a few dozen people a free iPhone AND cell service for one year and then monitored their usage? This isn’t some story about the NSA, instead, it’s longitudinal research that was actually conducted at Rice University and reported last year [pdf]. Much of the data we have on mobile
When it comes to testing websites there are many unmoderated and moderated solutions. But if you’ve ever tried to evaluate an app or website on a mobile phone or tablet there are fewer options. Usertesting.com offers a new mobile testing service which recruits users and records their mobile devices while they interact with your app
