Best of Mobile Design — September 2024

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   UX Planet·2y

   Practical Guide To Icon Design

   Icon design balances clarity, simplicity, and visual appeal. Key UX recommendations include using icons functionally, ensuring simplicity, maintaining a uniform style, avoiding ambiguity, and testing readability at small sizes. UI recommendations emphasize aligning objects to a pixel grid, designing in multiple sizes (16x16, 24x24, 32x32 px), maintaining consistent stroke widths, respecting border radius guidelines for different platforms, simplifying smaller icons, and matching icon style to typeface. Designlab offers courses to advance your UI/UX design skills.

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   Bootcamp·2y

   Case study: WhatsApp scheduled message feature

   This post delves into the design process and user research behind creating a scheduled message feature for WhatsApp. Inspired by a personal experience, the feature aims to help users send timely messages by allowing them to compose and schedule messages for later delivery. Key insights were gathered from informal interviews, and prototypes were created and tested for intuitive use. Future enhancements like recurring messages and templates are also discussed.

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