MUST NOT OVERLAP WITH PREVIOUS SECTION. NOT ABOUT HAND SIZE BUT RESPECTING USER CHOICE AND SO ON.
MAYBE ADD ON SOME ABOUT RATES OF DEVICE SCREEN SIZE USE? THE 1/3 SALES OF PHABLETS OR 70% OF KOREAN SMART DEVICE MARKET?
Your users are not like you...
It’s easy to make assumptions, and confuse empathy with your own point of view. Your users are not like you, or your friends but work in a myriad of ways, and change the way they work with their phones, regularly shifting their grip.
While many users hold to read or slowly scroll with one hand, for most tapping or gesture, users cradle, or hold the phone with one hand while tapping with the other. A little over 41% of the time, people type on virtual keyboards with both thumbs.
People are very comfortable changing their hand position, touching the screen in different ways to do different things with their devices, as they change tasks and context. Design for every user and every device by accepting that users change their way of touching and holding.
References
- Empathy discussed in Phones are Not Flat. Room for it here? Or move it?
The myth of the fold: http://www.iamthefold.com/