What problem does it solve?
Mobile teams struggle to align on effective mobile UX decisions that balance platform conventions, performance constraints, and accessibility. This Skill provides a structured, design-thinking approach to guide decisions for iOS, Android, and cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Flutter.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Guided thinking: Provides a framework for platform-aware mobile UX decisions across iOS, Android, and cross-platform stacks.
- Platform conventions: Covers iOS Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design 3 patterns to ensure a native feel.
- Performance & accessibility: Emphasizes 60fps animations, ergonomic thumb-zone placement, and accessibility considerations.
- Use Case: A design lead uses the decision matrices to choose between tab bar vs drawer and to select dark mode vs OLED-optimized palettes for a new app.
Quick Start
- Read quick-start materials: mobile-design-thinking.md and touch-psychology.md to ground your approach.
- Run through the platform and navigation guidance in mobile-navigation.md and mobile-performance.md to validate decisions.
- Apply the design commitment by documenting platform-specific choices in a living design guide.