Some business mobile application developments are extremely useful, practical, intuitive, and outright fun to use. Others are frustrating, boring, or are very nearly useless. What makes them different? What features and app design elements separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff when it comes to mobile applications? These features are essential for developing a mobile app that makes the grade with users.
1. Search Feature Shown in Mobile Application
Give your mobile app users a handy search bar so that they can find the content they need quickly.
Lots of content makes for great mobile app design, but all that content quickly becomes cumbersome and unusable if it isn’t made easily accessible to the mobile user. Most top-tier apps feature a dedicated search function to allow users to locate content that contains the keywords and key phrases relevant to what they need. This helps keep the mobile app convenient and accessible.
2. Social Media Networking Capabilities
Social media sharing isn’t just for quick cat videos and kids’ pictures anymore. Social media apps has already made its mark when it comes to communicating and collaborating with other people you know online, especially among workers who are geographically separated and between workers and their customers. Make this easy and seamless by incorporating social sharing (as well as email sharing) directly from your mobile application.
3. Responsive Mobile App Design for Varying Screen Sizes
Mobile app designing for Android and/or Apple devices is no longer enough. Most mobile app developers also need to consider the range of screen sizes between the small ‘compact’ and ‘mini’ phones and larger tablets. Some smartphones feature screens almost as big as a small tablet. The iPhone XS Max, for instance, features a 5.8″ screen, less than 1.5″ smaller than the smallest consumer-grade tablets. Make sure to incorporate responsive app design into your mobile app development so that all of these users receive a stellar design experience.
4. Different Versions for Different Mobile Devices
Similarly, you can no longer neglect any of the popular platforms. While BlackBerry used to rule the business world and Apple held a solid grip on the consumer market, BlackBerry devices are now obsolete after realising too late that they needed to adopt Android operating systems in order to remain relevancy, and Android devices constantly compete with Apple in both the business and consumer markets. Still, Apple holds enough market shares that it can’t be ignored. Develop a mobile app product for each of these platforms so that you don’t alienate a large segment of your users off the bat with relevant UK mobile app development services.
5. Less Keyboarding and More Mobile Screen Touching
When users are at a keyboard-mouse setup accessing your website services, you can ask them lots of information and they can type, type, type away. This isn’t the case with mobile app designs. Design the app for minimal use of the keyboard and make as much of the user experience as possible touch-based.
6. Allow for Compelling User Feedback
Sometimes the user just needs to express something. Giving users the ability to provide instant feedback is gratifying and eliminates lots of calls to the tech support department.
Allowing users to give you feedback definitely gives you and your team of mobile app developers a helpful insight into what you need to add, eliminate, and change. But it does more than that. Giving the users the ability to provide immediate feedback lets them vent their frustrations (and with a working app, there are always frustrations), meaning your mobile agency tech support staff has to field fewer angry phone calls. Win-win.
7. The Ability to Work Offline
Provide as much app usability as possible without an Internet connection. This feature has to be balanced, of course, with the issue of data protection and security. While you don’t want to have load lots of sensitive data on mobile devices that will spend lots of time on busy commuter trains and coffee shops, you do want to enable at least some work to be done if Internet access isn’t available. What and how much data and functionality is stored on the device depends on your specific mobile app requirements.
As you can see, a lot goes into developing a super mobile app design that users adore. Most businesses determine that a professional developer is better suited to the job than their in-house mobile app development agencies. Talk To Us at Glance to get started on your new mobile app today!