Website Designing Methods and Trends: 2013

Monday, January 7, 2013

Tips to Design and Develop Mobile Applications

There are numerous trends emerging in developing attractive mobile applications by using various tools and technologies. You can hardly find a single place when you start to develop your application. Some tips will enable you to design and develop mobile based applications as listed below:


1. Make a strategic plan:

Prior to designing and developing any mobile based application, proper planning and strategies are essential. It is necessary to cooperate between the design and development teams and for those clients who are developing the application.

Include various factors related to your business while creating an application:

• For instance, if you want to create an app for your restaurant, then include the latest menu of your restaurant where users can place their order as soon as possible.

• Suppose you have a retail firm and want to boost various operations, design such an app which helps to improve in organizing tasks into the business.

2. Create the design simple:

Keep the content and images as simple as possible which you want to display on the mobile devices. Don’t reduce the functionalities and content which you are displaying in the application but it means that your app should be working perfectly for different screen resolution. If you have lot of content, then divide it into different pages, which is easy to navigate on different screen resolution.

3. Select perfect framework:

In the mobile app, design and development frameworks are important. There are several frameworks available for designing and developing mobile app, but the most useful is jQuery Mobile. Two options are available for choosing the framework -- one is use full platform for the design needs and the other is mix or match framework to design and develop the app.

If you are a developer and using proper framework, know the ins and outs for getting better results of the product.

4. User experience is important:

To make any product or app successful in the market, user experience plays a decisive role. The reason is that your product or app is used by people often and one should also understand for whom it is catered for, whether it is meant for the youth or the elderly.

5. Ensure performance of the app:

When you launch the app, ensure its true value as much as possible. For instance, if there is a back button, then see it slides backwards. Ensure the use of colors which you have chosen and include them as they highlight the information.

From the strategic point of view, you should provide content with your mobile app, thus helping you to increase the brand value.

6. Ignore inbuilt button styles:

When you design an app for the mobile, you should ignore the default buttons which are provided inbuilt. If your app design sounds boring, then the default button style will not match up to your expectations. You can either use the inbuilt styles of the buttons or design custom buttons for your app design.

To sum up:

There are several things you need to include during designing mobile app. You should include the graphics by the graphic designers into the app. It will assist you to get the quality work and feedback for your app. When you finally create the app, you should take a look as to what has already been created.