A Step by Step Guide to Creating a Fantastic Mobile App Design!

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A Step by Step Guide to Creating a Fantastic
Mobile App Design!
During our journey with our closest mate
mobile, we find different ways to spend good
time with it. We download different
applications from the Playstore. Some, we
use a lot some keep lying unused for
years and some we uninstall. Let us talk about
the ones that you do not use. What turns you
off about those apps? Bad colors? Unnecessarily
flashing adverts? Or bad user interface? Well, it
can be any one of these reasons or an
amalgamation of all the 3.
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If you are a mobile app designer who has recently
started working for a mobile app design
company, you might have a lot of questions about
designing a perfect mobile app. Also, you
must know that mobile applications are quite
different as compared to web applications. A UI
design of mobile must work at the speed of
thought. It must be easy enough for new users and
not get boring for old users. So how do you make
an app that a user treasures? To help you
navigate through the nitty gritty of
mobile app development, we have come up with A
step-by-step guide to create a creating a
fantastic mobile app design Step 1 Planning
Development Methodology This is the first
important step for creating a superior
quality mobile app UI design. For the
new-fangled developers, the journey of creating
the first mockup to finally delivering the
app seems forever. This is because they do
not have a systematized methodology in place for
UI and UX of the mobile app. To start
with, it is important to know the purpose
of the application and the issues that you
need to address through it. After discussing
with the business owners for whom you are
creating the app, make a list of all the
purposes you need to resolve using the app.
This will give you the road map of the aspects
you need to work upon.
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Step 2 Conduct the Analysis Before you start
designing the app, you can conduct research
about similar apps in the market and
find out about the strength and weaknesses
of these apps. Know about the features that the
other apps lack and compare them with the
features you are planning to add in the current
app. After you conduct analysis, you will
get the right idea about creating an
interactive interface as well as graphics and
textures of the app. However, you must fix
a schedule for conducting analysis and for how
long will you be doing it as it can get
prolonged and lengthy. Remember, you should
be objective throughout the analysis and take
opinions from others if the need be. Step 3 Get
Some Clarity To design a successful mobile
interface, you should have clarity about a lot of
aspects. The first amongst these is knowing your
target audience. If you know your target
audience well, you would be able to make a
successful app. Thereafter, you need to
choose the mobile platforms and the devices
you want the app to work on. From the
device perspective, you should keep the
battery life, hardware performance and
required peripherals in mind. And while deciding
upon the mobile platform, you should
consider the device support, performance,
coverage, and other aspects.
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Step 4 Create a Wireframe After you get an
understanding of your audience and use cases of
your app, you can start with the
wireframing of the app. Wireframing is
nothing but the skeleton of your app. It does not
need to have detailed design elements but just
the structure for your app. An old school
designer would probably jot down some
ideas and draw their imaginations in a
book. But you can also find some drag and
drop prototyping tools that help you to
create a wireframe in no time. An interactive
wireframe enables you to change its structure and
manage its functionality. With the help of a
wireframe, you can get clarity about different
development stages of your app design. Step 5
Create a Prototype A prototype is nothing
but the basic model of your app. There
are several use cases of creating a
prototype. You might use it to give a demo
to your clients, sell it for free to your
potential buyers or just use it to understand
the basic functionality of it. The best part
about any app prototype is that it helps
the developers and makers to visualize the
tangible benefits of the app. However,
while developing the prototype, you must
keep in mind that you keep it secure from
unauthorized usage. After creating the
prototype, have a marketing plan in place to
promote it. You can also share the idea of your
app with investors and lead them to striking
future deals with you.
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• Step 6 Let us Design!
• And now its time to design. While designing your
  app, you must mull over all the similar apps and
  the suggestions, comments and concerns of users
  that utilize those apps. Which are the
  aspects you need to work on? What drawbacks
  will you keep your app away from? How do you want
  your app to look and feel like? Ask yourself
  these questions and develop the vision for your
  mobile app design. You can also choose to
  further develop on the prototyping
  applications. Let us understand how to work
  around the basic elements of your
  application. Here is what you must keep in
  mind
• Keep the navigation simple
• Complicated application navigations lead to
  cart abandonments. So, you must give your
  users what they are looking for. Remember,
  no matter how attractive your app looks, it
  must be easy to use and intuitive. So, do
  not be extra creative with app navigations. You
  can be creative with the search options but do
  not make it tough for the users to use your app.
• Work on the App typography
• Difficult to read fonts are a huge
  turn-off. Also, when people of different ages
  are going to use your app, the text on it must be
  legible. It is difficult to keep precise
  spaces between words and lines in your
  mobile app if you have limited space. So,
  keep the content small, sentences crisp and
  make the most out of the space you have. You can

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• also ask the opinion of your clients and others
  if the font looks right for the app.
• Decide the color scheme
• And now comes to choosing the right colors for
  your design. Your app should not look like a
  bouquet of different flowers. A perfect
  color scheme should not have more than two or
  three colors. Make sure that the colors are
  not too much in contrast and the typography
  is visible with the background color. Go with the
  less is more approach while deciding upon the
  colors.
• Step 7 Time to Test
• After you have placed the right design and
  content in place, you need to ensure that the
  app serves the purpose it is meant to
  serve. And hence, you need to test your app on
  different devices. As and when you use the app,
  write about the details, issues you face
  with it and the navigation elements that you
  can improve upon. Only then, you will be able to
  render maximum productivity for your users. Take
  care of little details like, is the keypad
  reachable? If yes, does it hide any important
  information while the user is typing?
  Check the user experience throughout
  different devices if you want to provide your
  users with a successful app.
• Concluding
• You would not want your app to be fragile and
  vulnerable to viruses. By following the above
  given steps, you will be able to undertake
  a strategic approach to building a superior
  quality mobile user interface.

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It is not easy to get million downloads
and thousand reviews. And hence, the
developers must be smart and focus on the core
area of the app by keeping the companys
objectives in mind.