Designing Effective Mobile Applications

The UX Design process or User Researcher users their skill set to design the software architecture, physical products, or environments related to a customer’s experience.

 

The UX researcher starts with; the research phase, defining, designing, prototyping, validating, building, and finally testing.

 

The Rise of the Mobile device

In 2021, the number of mobile devices operating worldwide stood at almost 15 billion, up from just over 14 billion in the previous year, and in the year 2017 mobile devices were used more than laptops and PCs.

 

This trend with more people using smartphones makes mobile a universal product, unlike laptops and PCs.

 

Responsive website v mobile website v native app.

 

Software applications piece of software, for example, Microsoft, SPOTIFY, and Google Chrome are run on devices, in this case, websites and mobile devices and apps.

 

Some of this software is only available on Macintosh or Windows devices.

 

Camtasia recorder software online works on windows, and Screen Flow will only work on the Macintosh.

 

These two pieces of software are an excellent example of how not all software is compatible with other systems; this can be due to design reasons, but the most common cause is the rivalry between companies.

 

For website application software that works everywhere, it runs on the three most common types of coding: HTML, CSS & JavaScript.

 

A responsive website is a website that has been built that will function on traditional websites and mobile this is done to save companies money. Rather than creating multiple sites for apps, traditional websites, and mobile websites, a responsive website makes it more cost-effective and accessible.

 

Mobile websites can be the clones of traditional websites running the same functions; however, the big difference is that both websites use different codes and are separate websites with the same information.

 

It is important not to get this mixed up with responsive websites.

 

With native apps, they are more responsive than websites, and mobile websites because they are specifically designed for the use with the native systems of the mobile devices, with the most dominant systems being iOS and Android.

 

 

A tick list to decide whether or not to invest money in a native app              

• Does the volume of users justify the investment in a native app?
• Frequency how often do users use the native app
• Does your app need unique capabilities that a web-based app won’t provide
• Is the cost of maintaining and building a native app beneficial for your company or personal use.

 

 

When making a financial decision, you must be aware of as much information as possible.

 

The competition for native apps; there is over 2 billion of those apps in the world.

 

Users delete 25% of apps that are downloaded once they have been placed on their device 45% of a user’s time is spent on their main app, and 85% of apps usage is by the global top five apps, which are WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & Google Maps.

 

When making a professional or personal decision to invest your time and money in building a responsive website, mobile website, or native app, it is first best to make your final decision on the best information available and be informed about the competition.