How to Prevent Users from Mistapping Icons
3 min readJan 8, 2019
If you’ve designed a mobile app before, you know how useful and prevalent icons are. But what you don’t know is how often users mistap them when they’re placed too close together.
This is a common problem when icons are aligned in a row. Users can easily hit adjacent buttons if there isn’t enough padding between them. This mistake can frustrate your users and slow down their task performance.
