Most people, including you and me, immediately scroll down vertically when we click open an app.. What is it then, that we can do as designers to make a horizontal scroll intuitive? I discovered few for my designs. In this article I would talk about few of those tips.. Here they are —

1. Careful planning — Figure out what fits where

Okay, okay — this might not be the most mind-blowing tip on the list, but it’s definitely the most important one on the list.

Carefully planning out the interface is the first things we learn about design. Sometimes time crunch, short deadlines or lazy days leads to just doing away with planning. But, with a horizontal design you definitely want to take the time to plan it out, draw paper prototypes and mock-ups, and figure out where and how everything is going to fit. There are a lot of things to consider and because it is not what most designers or visitors or used to, you have to plan a lot more than you might with a vertical site.

2. Use horizontal scroll in specific cases

Horizontal scroll works best when you want to display a subset of a category. A few situations where horizontal scroll have seen good success are -