The smartphone market is nowadays highly competitive. When buying a new device, users
focus on visual esthetics, ergonomics, performance, and user experience, among others …

The idea of usability as something optional and only applicable in latest stages of the
development process is obsolete. Usability is very valuable for users, reason why counting …

The mobile devices market has grown substantially, along with significant developments in
mobile interactive technologies. Devices such as tablets, smartphones and others have …

Usability is one of the factors that most affects a software quality. The increasing adoption of
mobile devices brings new usability challenges, as well as a need for specific standards for …

For the last decade, mobile phones have been the fastest growing segment of the
technology market increasing the importance of interface design for this type of device. Yet …

This paper reports on initial work in the identification of heuristics that may be most usefully
applied in the heuristic evaluation of native smartphone applications. Given the prevalence …

Heuristic evaluation has proven popular for desktop and web interfaces, both in practical
design and as a research topic. Compared to full user studies, heuristic evaluation can be …

Usability is a main issue which definitely affects the quality and success of any interactive
product. Touchscreen-based mobile devices are very popular nowadays, the development …

The innovations proposed by the cell phone market have grown steadily in recent years,
along with the increasing complexity of the hardware, operating systems, and applications …

Numerous sets of usability heuristics have been designed for specific domains, as traditional
heuristics do not evaluate the specific features of particular applications. A substantial …