Question

I am creating an application with call functionality, I want to have the phone image on the right hand side and the name of the contact on the left hand side. Currently this has been implemented by placing the 2 buttons side by side, hence if the user clicks on any of the buttons, the same functionality (calling the contact) happens.

Is this allowed according to Apple HIG? Please let me know.

Thank You,
Ashvin

Answer 1

I don’t think anything in the HIG specifically disallows this, but it seems like a bad idea, for a couple of reasons:

1. If there are two buttons side-by-side, users will assume the buttons do different things, and will be confused when they don’t.
2. It wastes screen real-estate that could probably be put to better use.

From your description it is hard to tell exactly what this looks like, but it sounds like something that needs to be re-designed.