Salesforce1 Mobile App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce1 Administration
Developing for Salesforce1
Welcome to Salesforce App Cloud Development
Designing Mobile-First User Interfaces
Design for Mobile
Keep Navigation Simple
Put Important Information at the Top
Minimize the Number of Fields
Use Field Defaults
Minimize User Interface Text
Tap Target Size
Extending Salesforce1 with Visualforce Pages
Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Minimize the Number of Fields

When it comes to presenting fields on a screen, less is more. Give users only the fields they need to complete the task at hand.

For example, if you’re creating a screen for adding a new warehouse, you might only want to surface the warehouse name field. This way the user can quickly add a new warehouse. If the user has collected more information, they can edit the new record and add it in the detail view.

This guideline is particularly important when displaying information that’s for viewing only. For example, if you’re creating a form that the mobile technician uses to look up a customer, the technician probably needs to see only the customer name, address, and a phone number. In our page to search for merchandise, only two fields are needed: the merchandise name and delivery distance.Create Quick Order search

To reduce the number of fields on a screen, consider using default values for new records instead of having the user enter the data.