UX Field Guide

UX Field Guide is now ready for iPhone Duo. • Open the phone like a book and the guide lays out two pages across the inner display. The left page holds the library, with search and the four pillars, and turns to a pillar's entries, while the right page holds the entry you are reading and the related entries you follow from it. • The two pages meet at the fold with a clear strip either side of the crease, so neither the list nor the entry runs across it. • You can search on the left page while the entry you are reading stays open on the right. • Folding the phone keeps your place: the outer display carries on with the same entry, scrolled to where you were reading, along with the related entries you followed, and opening the phone again brings both pages back. • With the phone closed, the whole guide works on the outer display as it does on any iPhone, with search, Ask, the four pillars, and every entry. TWELVE NEW PATTERNS The guide adds twelve patterns: paywalls, two-factor authentication, account verification, account deletion, media uploads, cancelling a subscription, not-found pages and dead ends, onboarding checklists, help centres, inviting collaborators, notification settings, and chat and messaging. Each one has its own illustration and an interactive demo to try, and entries such as Sign-In & Registration, Checkout Flow, and Empty States now link to them. The guide holds 168 entries. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • When a question names an entry, Search and Ask now find that entry more reliably. • The Chunking, Pair Icons with Text Labels, and Support Scalable Text demos now fit on smaller iPhone screens. • On iPad the guide opens on Patterns instead of an empty column. • At the largest text sizes, the Ask button moves under the search field and your search keeps the full width. Long titles also keep whole words, and the app name in About no longer cuts off. • The About link steps aside while the search field is active, so it stays clear of the pillars above the keyboard. • The search index, which the app rebuilds by itself, is left out of your device backups.