App UX
31 post(s)
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RoastMyApp: 51 paywall experiments (with real examples) to grow mobile app revenue
A long but practical swipe-file: RoastMyApp groups 51 paywall experiments into five levers (design, pricing, messaging, offers, personalization) so teams can test methodically instead of randomly.
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Swiggy’s transition to native is a growth story in disguise: performance work that moved conversion
Apple’s latest Developer Story on Swiggy is a reminder that ‘app UX’ work is often growth work. Swiggy describes moving key flows from hybrid to Swift/SwiftUI, shipping fast by rebuilding high-impact journeys first, and seeing downstream improvements beyond just load times.
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Hello Developer (Sept 2026): Apple’s ‘what to ship next’ signal, plus a quiet warning for Intel Mac apps
Apple’s September 2026 Hello Developer edition is mostly a grab-bag (Apple Event, an Apple Intelligence Group Lab video, a developer story). The useful part is the signal: Apple is pushing teams toward AI-ready workflows and inclusive UX, while the platform quietly sunsets legacy paths like Intel-only Mac apps.
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AppFollow: mobile game retention in 2026 is a workflow (metrics plus store feedback)
A credited summary of AppFollow’s mobile game retention guide. The core idea is simple: retention charts tell you when cohorts dropped, but store reviews and version-level sentiment often tell you why, earlier.
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Google adds one-handed gestures to Wear OS 7: a tiny UX change that makes apps feel ‘effortless’
Google’s new one-handed gesture framework for Wear OS 7 (via Compose for Wear OS 1.7 beta) lets users trigger a primary action (double pinch) or dismiss (wrist turn). The takeaway for growth teams: reduce friction on high-frequency actions and you often get retention ‘for free’.
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Android Developers: Jetpack Compose 1.12 (Aug 2026) is a quiet ‘store creative’ update in disguise
Compose’s August 2026 stable release (1.12 / BOM 2026.08.00) adds mesh gradients, wide colour gamut support, new layout primitives, and test/performance improvements. For app teams, this is less about ‘new APIs’ and more about how quickly you can ship polished UI and experiment safely.
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Apple’s new iOS 27 design kits are a quiet App Store creative deadline
Apple has released updated Figma and Sketch design kits for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27, including Liquid Glass updates and expanded component support. If your screenshots and store assets are built in Figma, this is your cue to refresh templates before the fall App Store creative placements land.
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Play Integrity API library release notes: remediation prompts turn integrity failures into a UX (not just an error)
Android’s Play Integrity API release notes add more remediation dialog codes you can trigger in-app. The practical implication: integrity checks are becoming a user-facing flow, so product and support teams need copy, fallbacks, and measurement for ‘can’t pass integrity’ states.
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App Store Marketing Weekly – Week 26 (2026)
This week’s theme: payments and ratings are not ‘growth hacks’, they’re trust surfaces. Google is modularising Play fees, and Apple is tightening review-prompt enforcement. Treat both as UX you can break (or improve).
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Mobile app experience in 2026: the apps that ask less win (because attention is the bottleneck)
Userpilot argues most mobile UX issues are attention-management issues: value should come before setup, permissions should be requested at the moment of need, and notifications should be behavior-driven instead of schedule-driven.
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Android 17 Beta 3: photo picker customization and privacy defaults that will show up as UX friction (if you ignore them)
Android 17 reaches platform stability in Beta 3. Buried in the release is a practical UX change: you can now customize the photo picker’s layout to match your app, while keeping the privacy-preserving picker model. At the same time, defaults like certificate transparency and local network protections keep tightening.
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Android Developers: Android 17 will enforce app memory limits, so treat memory like a launch blocker
Android 17 will start enforcing per-app memory limits based on device RAM, and if you blow past them the system can kill your process without a stack trace. The practical play: shrink bytecode with R8, fix bitmap bloat, and add field signals so you can spot memory-limiter exits.
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Apple Developer: Apple Design Award winners 2026 are a high-signal swipe file for ‘proof moments’
The 2026 winners are a practical reminder: delight is usually a product decision (clarity, feedback, pacing), not a marketing slogan. Use these apps as references for onboarding and screenshot promises.
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Apple previews new accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence: why it matters for UX, onboarding, and content
A credited summary of Apple’s May 2026 accessibility preview, including generated subtitles and richer VoiceOver descriptions, plus practical implications for app UX and marketing promises.
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Android at Google I/O 2026: the themes that matter for shipping, UX, and distribution
A credited summary of Android Developers’ ‘17 Things to know’ recap from Google I/O 2026, focused on what changes app shipping velocity, UI expectations, and platform surfaces (not just developer hype).
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Apple Design Award finalists 2026: a useful swipe file for onboarding, motion, and ‘proof moment’ UI
A credited summary of Apple’s 2026 Apple Design Award finalists list, and how to use it as a practical reference library for UI clarity, feedback, and first-session ‘proof moments’ (not just vibes).
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WWDC26 (June 8 to 12, 2026): why app growth teams should care
WWDC is ‘dev news’, but it’s also a growth calendar event. New UI defaults, policy shifts, and tooling changes show up as conversion friction (or opportunity) within weeks.
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Retention in 2026: build habit loops, not feature lists (17 engagement tactics, filtered)
StriveCloud’s long list of engagement tactics is salesy, but still useful as a checklist. The real value is the recurring pattern: shorten time-to-value, use behavior triggers over blasts, reduce permission friction, and treat deep links as conversion infrastructure.
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Onboarding is not a tour, it is a path to the first win (26 examples worth stealing)
Appcues’ roundup is less about copycat flows and more about patterns: personalize early, shorten time to value, make progress visible, and let experienced users skip the fluff. It’s a useful checklist for any activation-focused team.
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Purchasely: 10 mobile UX mistakes that make users quit (2026 edition)
A credited summary of Purchasely’s 2026 playbook on onboarding and core-flow UX mistakes that drive churn, plus a simple way to turn ‘best practices’ into a test plan.
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Android 17 Beta 4: the ‘boring’ changes that become support tickets
Android 17 Beta 4 is the last scheduled beta, and the headline for app teams is not one feature, it is a bundle of default-tightening changes: local network access blocked by default (new ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK permission), background audio hardening, certificate transparency on by default, plus new memory limits and profiling triggers for anomalies.
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App Store Marketing Weekly – Week 16 (2026)
This week’s theme: the ‘quiet layers’ are multiplying. OS-level attention filters are changing retention mechanics, and Apple’s developer workflow updates (App Store Connect + Hello Developer) are nudging teams toward faster, cleaner shipping.
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ConsultMyApp: 5 questions to ask before deciding your app is ‘bad’
ConsultMyApp argues most ‘our app is failing’ panic is really a funnel diagnosis problem: wrong channels, unclear store story, weak UX and engagement, or measurement gaps.
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State of UX in 2026: what it means for app growth teams
NN/g’s 2026 UX snapshot: stabilising team sizes, tighter expectations, and why growth teams should treat UX work as a measurable funnel lever, not a ‘nice-to-have’.
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Android desktop experience guidance + Design Gallery: the ‘bigger screens’ checklist just got real
Android published new Desktop Experience design guidance and launched an Android Design Gallery, pushing teams to treat keyboard/mouse + windowed layouts as first-class UX states.
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Why legacy brands still win on mobile (but only if they treat the app as the flagship)
A credited summary of ConsultMyApp’s argument that heritage brands can compete in 2026 by modernising around mobile touchpoints, faster operating models, and a protected brand voice.
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Room 3.0 goes Kotlin Multiplatform: what changes (and why it matters for shipping quality apps faster)
A credited summary of Android’s Room 3.0 alpha: KMP-first APIs, KSP-only processing, coroutine-first DAOs, a new groupId/package, and early support for JS/WASM via SQLite driver work.
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Connected displays are GA on Android 16, and ‘desktop mode’ is now a real UX surface
Android 16 QPR3 ships general-availability connected display support with a desktop windowing environment, plus guidance on adaptive layouts, large/XL window size classes, and keyboard/mouse compatibility.
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8 UX moves that actually improve app retention (and conversions)
Studio Ubique’s retention checklist: faster time-to-value, progressive onboarding, clearer paywalls, and measuring activation instead of vanity engagement.
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Mobile app performance testing is growth work (not just QA)
Phiture’s practical case for treating app performance as a growth lever: crash-free sessions, ANR thresholds, real-device coverage, and continuous monitoring to protect ratings, retention, and store visibility.
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Privacy Pulse: the US demand map for VPNs, password managers, authenticators & private browsers (iOS vs Android)
APPlyzer snapshot of US privacy-intent demand and the apps that capture it across iOS and Google Play.