With the tech world aligning the web experience to mobile optimization,
there can be a lot of competition and confusion to the owners. Here are a few
tips to improve on your mobile optimized website
Navigation
The user’s ability to navigate within your website or web
app is key to user retention. Simple and consistent navigation can help users
easily find what they were looking for in the first place. With latest developments
in UI, navigation trends such as swipe, clicks, pinch etc should be used wisely
to keep the user experience rich.
Text Font
Fonts and text size should be optimal for mobile devices.
There are designs that use large text fonts, these are carefully utilized to
create elegant designs and hence the primary criteria for a font size would be
readability. If the text is too small or the font is complicated then the user might
get stress and leave.
Scroll
Information should not be limited to a single page, but when
it comes to mobile optimized sites search page after page would be a difficult,
hence using the different scroll types would be ideal here. Infinite scroll and
long scrolls are two primary scrolls that can be used in mobile optimized web
sites and web applications.
Scalable images
Images needs to be scalable. Web site containing lot of
images should be especially careful as images can be heavy which could affect the
site’s performance. Hence the image should be scaled as per the device it is
viewed on.
The tips here are provided to be reviewed from a user point
of view. For site owners who are not tech savvy can use this information to
check how their site and make the necessary changes. Here the importance of thing
to remember is that any change made to the site should be reviewed from a user
point and then implemented. This can make a lot of difference as far as the
user experience is considered.
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