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Summary: Overlays often need to be dismissed in a manner that goes against users’ expectations.
Overlays have become a ubiquitous UI element on mobile: beyond the annoying popups for cookie permissions, chat bubbles , coupons offerings, and marketing-subscription offers, you will also find them used for navigation menus , bottom sheets, product-detail pages, or in-app browsers.
While many mobile overlays take up only a section of the page (partial overlays), allowing some content to be visible in the background, others occupy the full screen and are practically indistinguishable from a regular page or view.
Depending on whether the user can interact with the background (that is, with the content beneath the overlay), overlays can be modal or nonmodal . In modal overlays , users cannot interact with the background, while in nonmodal overlays , they can do so.
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This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Raluca Budiu, Sana Behnam, Kate Moran
Raluca Budiu, Sana Behnam, Kate Moran | Sciencx (2022-09-18T16:00:00+00:00) Accidental Dismissal of Overlays: A Common Mobile Usability Problem. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2022/09/18/accidental-dismissal-of-overlays-a-common-mobile-usability-problem/
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