User Interface musts for mobile design
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The document shares insights gained from nine years of experience in a technology conglomerate, emphasizing the importance of efficient design in product acceptability. It outlines key design strategies for app development, such as accommodating user interactions, minimizing actions for faster outputs, preparing for interruptions, and avoiding clutter. The ultimate goal is to create an intuitive app that users will love and want to explore further.
User Interface musts for mobile design
- 2. Working at a Technology conglomerate for over 9 years has provided me valuable lessons not just in how to code and make things works efficiently, it has also made me understand the design of everyday products better. The value add an efficient design can provide goes to great lengths in more acceptability of your product. Users not only want to see things work, they want to appreciate the product, love their purchase and can go to any length in explaining to the world - WHY they love it!!! (think Apple!)
- 3. Provided a target segment, this is how you can make your App-design simple and efficient by following these few steps: • Design for big fingers - Not everybody uses a stylus (actually very few do) and ordinary people will just feel a little more comfortable if they don't have to press their fingers again and again to make things work. • Less action means faster output - Making users go through a number of steps to achieve an output might put your app at risk! With reducing attention spans and increasing notifications, more than 2-to-4 actions will lead user to some think more, which will reduce the intuitiveness and charm for your app.
- 4. • Interruption is a given - Ultimately it's a smartphone. A user gets calls, texts, and other notifications every few seconds. The user will return to your app again and again, so reduce the loading time of your app, save the states the user got stuck on last visit and reduce approximation. • Don't Clutter - It's a smartphone not a tablet. The users need only few things/actions 90% of the time, the rest needs to be contextual. Don't expect the user to know everything about the app in first few visits.
- 5. Given the right information and actions, users will fall in love with your app and will love to discover more on every subsequent visit.