Mobile Lab — Mobile User Interface Techniques

Mobile user interface techniques: Split Views

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Using a split view in your interface gives you full representation of data or information in one part of the screen and another part of the screen that you can manipulate. So in this example we have a map in which the user is allowed to examine different parts using the upper interface. The user sees the whole map in the lower section and in the other section they see the parts that are zoomed in. By manipulating the region they want to see on the larger map they can change the view in the upper pane. This is very useful for complex interfaces where you want to be sure the user knows the relationship of the overall data to the zoomed detailed of the data at all times.