Mobile Lab — Mobile User Interface Techniques

Mobile user interface techniques: Visibility

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We employ user interface visibility techniques to present a small portion of an interface that the user can select to expand it into the full interface. This techniques enables us to show just a menu fragment that when activated, displays the full menu overlaid over your current content. The user gets a peek at what's available to them without having to leave the content and lose context of where they are and what they are doing. They know that the menu is there and they can quickly activate it and have it appear superimposed over whatever they are looking at. When finished, the can easily minimize it. This is a navigation technique that mobile user are familiar with from their desktop PC experience.