Usability question
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- VectorMasked0
I have only worked on one app so I am no expert.
While placing the buy button below the content in this case sorta makes sense, but then we have to remember in in the content area a million different buttons with a million different reasons are placed and this changes from app to app. The top header area is almost reserved for two logical things... "go back/change your mind" and "move forward/purchase/proceed".
Another thing is that "below the fold" dilemma still exists. While a 20-year-old will scroll to find that button without thinking, a 60-year-old or a not very tech savvy person won't. If tomorrow 4 more lines of info were required in that screenshot, the "buy button" could move below the fold on mobile devices with smaller screens.
We then also have the the fact that apps and every element within the app does not resize according to the screen size. Due to certain limitations in terms of coding, some elements need to be hard coded and have a fixed size. Apps won't show up perfectly scaled down from phone to phone. Not just because it looks fine on a 6 plus, means the same amount of content will appear on a single screen on a 6 or 7, and much less on a 5s.