Usability Studies on Mobile User Interface Design Patterns: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Mobile platforms have called for attention from HCI practitioners, and, ever since 2007, touchscreens have completely changed mobile user interface and interaction design. Some notable differences between mobile devices and desktops include the lack of tactile feedback, ubiquity, limited screen size, small virtual keys, and high demand of visual attention. These differences have caused unprecedented challenges to users. Most of the mobile user interface designs are based on desktop paradigm, but the desktop designs do not fully fit the mobile context. Although mobile devices are becoming an indispensable part of daily lives, true standards for mobile UI design patterns do not exist. This article provides a systematic literature review of the existing studies on mobile UI design patterns. The first objective is to give an overview of recent studies on the mobile designs. The second objective is to provide an analysis on what topics or areas have insufficient information and what factors are concentrated upon. This article will benefit the HCI community in seeing an overview of present works, to shape the future research directions.

Usability Study of Smart Phone Messaging for Elderly and Low-literate Users

“…But still, there are different types of Elderly exist in our society according to their ability. 1) Fit older people: Elderly who are fit to do most of the work and physical functionalities what they want to do but activities are different from while they were younger [6], [35].…”

“…The user interface should follow a pattern to serve the diversity of the application. An application should be accessed by as many people as possible with the maximum range of environment [6]. Mobile user interface design is not as easy as a desktop app interface design.…”

“…The usability refers to user satisfaction, how effective and efficient way to complete the task with the given interface with less error [5], [16]. Because smartphone is equipped with touchscreen instead of button keypad [6], limited screen size 3.2" up to 12.9" [17], poorly design for the senior adults which is very hard to adapt [18][19], icons are very small in size [20][21], text entry which refers to incorrect input [18], [22], inconsistence navigation to go next page or previous page [7], [23], and hand/motor function is slow compared to the younger user which required touch operation [24][25]. The mobile manufacturing companies are developing mobile layout according to the trend to do commercialized their product.…”

Strategies and Quality Guidelines for Effective User Interface Design

“…Lumpapun Punchoojit et. al [ 7] presented a recent systematic recent literature on mobile user interface design patterns. The literature provide sufficient information for innovation of new trends in mobile application development.…”

Adaptive Kinetic Scrolling: Kinetic Scrolling for Large Datasets on Mobile Devices

“…It is one of the important aspects of usability that facilitates task performance [22,23]. Moreover, scrolling is considered as one of the most important interactions in perspective of usability of mobile applications [25,26]. With AKS, improvements in usability are expected by making it possible for users to accomplish scrolling tasks faster.…”