Thread by @tculesIT

How to improve the mobile input experience of your digital product - A thread

Data input on mobile and desktop is substantially different.

Therefore, applying the same principles will lead to a catastrophic failure.

This is how we improve mobile user input experience:

1. Minimize data requirement

It is a lot more comfortable to input data on a desktop than on mobile.

Thus, the best thing you can do for improving the mobile input experience, is minimizing the amount of data required.

2. Defaults over custom input

If you know that 80% of your customers are from the US, 15% from the UK and 5% from the rest of the world, it makes sense that the US and UK be the default/top options when it comes to selecting a location.

3. Design based on device capabilities

For devices with capabilities, voice input is a better method than typing inputs.

However, that shouldn’t be the only option.

For devices without the capability, having an option to manually input details is useful.

4. The right tool for the task

Provide a numeric keyboard when the form of data required numbers, a qwerty when data is a combination of letters and numbers and a letter-only keyboard when that is the data is purely alphabets.

5. Cut the captcha

Let’s face it, captchas suck and they don’t even serve their purpose anymore.

There are browser extensions that can automatically solve captchas.

So, for the sake of all humanity, remove the captcha.

This is how we improve the user input experience for our clients’ products.

Drop us a comment, let us know what you do differently and don’t forget to follow us at @TculesIT

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