You might have a vision, mission, and logo ready for your mobile app. But is it all that you need before the actual mobile app design?
Small nitty-gritty details before the practical mobile app development stages, are the nuts and bolts of an app production. As long as you stick to the ground rules, you will have your mobile app stand out from others, following the completion.
What these nuts and bolts are, leading to a user-friendly mobile app design? Let us find out.
1. Design should not overcome clarity
The key features should be made clear to the users. Do not leave them confused, through an over the top design, hard to digest. Insert menu tabs, content, labels, buttons, fields, and multimedia, simple enough for even a first time user, not well versed with using mobile apps. As soon as they arrive, they should feel comfortable looking at the app design structure, offering both tangible and intangible values.
2. Identifying the right audience segment
It is very important to analyze your target users, in order to plan features and functionalities around the design. Provide valuable information and content within your app, which will help users save both time and money. The best ways to go about are:
• Recruiting a focus group of selected individuals who can conduct a market research.
• Creating online communities, and getting one on one with the users online.
• Organizing live conferences, seminars, or workshops, where users are allowed to use the app live.
3. Speed is just about everything
An app gives the impression of performing faster, when a progress bar, or a loading bar is displayed. The reason being, a user expects interactive and immediate responses, on performing an action. If their actions are acknowledged, they will have no issues whatsoever, waiting for the loading bar or a progress bar to complete 100%. There are two ways to deal with it:
• Provide an engaging animation while a user clicks, taps, or swipes.
• Simple moving icon such as bouncing, sliding, or glowing symbol will also do the trick, entertaining users while waiting.
