Why charts?

The following is not necessarily a mobile-specific section but an important one nevertheless. Many apps display helpful information in a textual way, such as tables, lists, or grids. While displaying information in a list or a grid can be beneficial, it’s much harder to tell the story that way.

Users sometimes struggle to process a textual representation of information, and visualizing it may help them gain interesting insights and make decisions. There might be different types of insights, which can be relationships between data points, trends, and repeated patterns.

Data can be even more difficult to digest on a mobile phone due to the screen size and the challenge of presenting information in grids. However, screen size is not the only challenge with mobile phones – users often expect to glimpse data insights rather than analyze spreadsheets. A mobile user experience differs from a desktop one because of different use cases and behavior. Due to that...