App Development Inspiration 54
By: They Make Design
Tags: Marketing, Visual Design, Design, Inspiration, Technology

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While mobile application is about efficiency and ease of use, you have to attract people to it first. That’s why the UI is just as important as the UX. The two are complementary and should go hand in hand. Make sure the firm you want has UI and UX designers and not just the generic web designers. Specialization is essential to make your digital product that best that it can be. It’s the dream job, all you need to do is to put your idea into a visual way.

UI designers put together the mobile app product and UX designers put together the app product. Don’t just get one in the team and let’s just hope that they are a good combination of the two. UI designers create the actual functional product while UX designers create the visual interface and interactivity.

We’re going to divide the UI and UX in this article into three different categories — usability, visual design, layout and interaction design.

1. Usability

Every action a person takes on a digital product has to be intuitive. You can easily extract the information you need from the interface. The user must be able to find unique information in the interface by him/herself. Users must able to know where the search bar is, how to zoom the image and how to navigate the page.

First Things First

Focusing on usability is the first thing you should always consider. You must make your design user-friendly. Make sure your design has a consistent foundation to it.

2. Visual Design

Visual design is essential. The visual design includes the layout, colors, brand elements, fonts and all the programs that go into the design for digital products. A good UI designer is not only a person that can execute with new ideas but a person who can make something look like it’s been made before, but never been done before.

Boldness and consistency

Make your design visually beautiful if you want to impress your clients. Don’t make the design too ‘in your face’. Everything is about balance. Your design should be bold enough to stand out from the crowd but not overbearing.

3. Layout

Layout for mobile applications is quite different from the layout of desktop applications. When designing for the application, you have to consider many factors. It will be different for every application. However, there are some basic considerations you could consider:

Navigation: You should have one home page. Usually, the home page will have all the share interactivity, and that page will open up to show other pages.

You should have one home page. Usually, the home page will have all the share interactivity, and that page will open up to show other pages. Call to action: You should have a call to action on all major touch points in the application.

4. Interaction design

Interaction design is about figuring out all the different ways that a person can use to back in and out of the application. It’s usually used to screen as possible actions or views. The objective of interaction design is to turn features and functions into interactive element in your application.

After you have the primary element, then you start going after secondary actions.

Ongoing progress is key

It’s critical to show a design progress in order to get feedback from the client. There is always room for changes in every part of the application. This is a continuous process.