Mobile apps are everywhere, and many big brands already depend on them to enhance the customer experience. Thanks to low-code app development platforms, it's easier than ever for any company to join the app marketplace.
Despite the proliferation of branded mobile apps, there's a lot to consider before you invest in one for your business. Will you be able to maintain it? Will your customers even want to use it? Here’s what the Forbes Technology Council suggests you consider before taking the leap.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/12/12/11-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-creating-an-app-for-your-business/#3be783cb6e5c/
Things move quickly in the mobile app universe. To succeed in the field of mobile UX design, designers must have the foresight and prepare for new challenges around the corner.
To simplify the task, I’ve listed the biggest, impactful trends for 2018 and, most likely, beyond.
https://uxplanet.org/12-mobile-ux-design-trends-for-2018-5b4ce7e8445f/
Mobile apps are intended to make people’s lives easier, but some design decisions can get to be too much for day-to-day use. Below, 14 YEC members discuss app functions that companies — and users — should think twice about.
Mobile apps can come with a suite of bells and whistles, some of which can be distracting or are a drain on your staff with little return on the user experience. What is one popular feature in apps that should be avoided?
https://www.business2community.com/mobile-apps/14-app-designs-and-features-to-avoid-for-a-better-user-experience-02095147/
Mobile apps have become a reserve for large corporations and businesses. Every business is looking forward to taking advantage of the mobile platform. A mobile app can help business owners:
• Provide customer service
• Add value
• Make money
• Do their business
A mobile app should solve a problem for a company or a customer. It will allow the users to do something or move rather than in person or computer.
https://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/business/6-apps-that-will-improve-your-business-productivity/
What? When? Where? Why? How? Who?
These are all seemingly simple questions with complicated answers. These are also questions at the core of UX, at the core of creating effective user experiences. As a UX designer on the services team here at Mendix, I work with teams to create applications that help both their organizations and end users meet their goals.
User experience (UX) is a term that continues to be popular in the technology and design industries. Despite its popularity, many are unsure what UX means and how to use the term correctly. You'll often hear it referenced when talking about digital interfaces, like those in websites or mobile apps. While that's not incorrect, a deeper view into UX is crucial for a deeper understanding of what UX is and why it's important.
https://dzone.com/articles/are-these-the-apps-youre-looking-for-user-experien/
Customers are increasingly and overwhelmingly mobile-first. For the most part, many brands are still learning how to optimize traditional e-commerce experiences let alone mobile sites and apps. The Amazons of the world don’t make it any easier to keep up. Yet every day, customers are reaching for their smartphones to learn about what to buy, what to do or where to go. But without being mobile-centric and integrating digital touchpoints, customer journeys are certain to be rife with obstacles between mobile sites and apps and even the desktop web.
https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/07/25/break-down-the-silos-between-mobile-site-and-app-teams-to-optimize-the-digital-customer-journey/
Have you ever tried a video streaming app and then been so frustrated by the sheer number of ads that you decided to uninstall within minutes of downloading? Or have you ever installed a mobile app that promised to make your to do list more functional only to begin scratching your head, wondering how to use the gnarly abundance of menu options?
Both of these examples show the deadly effect that a poor user experience (UX) can have on your app. See, UX isn’t only an art. It’s also a science with very clearly defined principles. And mastering those principles can lead to a better app and happier users.
https://clevertap.com/blog/user-experience/
If you look at the modern shopping experience, it is obvious that today’s consumers are used to being able to quickly find what they are looking for on well-designed mobile apps and websites, they are used to being able to find information on the products they are looking at with a couple clicks and finally, once they have made their decision, they can finalize their purchase quickly, without friction.
With this process, we have all gotten used to going through these steps in an intuitive fashion, proceeding without wondering what to do next or where to go. The modern online shopping experience allows for instant gratification, with shoppers able to complete the process as conveniently as possible.
Due to our familiarity with smooth, seamless online shopping, we now naturally gravitate towards real-world shopping experiences that offer us the smoothest, most convenient path with the lowest amount of friction.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/how-ux-is-impacting-the-retail-industry-02111864/
Mobile apps might be getting the lion’s share of attention (and ad dollars) right now, but marketers ignore the mobile web at their own peril.
Users spend significantly more time in-app than on the mobile web, according to data from comScore, but the mobile web drew more than double the number of unique visitors in June 2017.
https://www.emarketer.com/content/google-is-working-hard-to-make-the-mobile-web-faster/
PWAs allow users to have the experience of an app without having to download one.
By now, you’ve probably heard that Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are the next big thing. Experts believe that they’ll push the mobile web forward, bring parity to web and native apps and provide mobile specific capabilities to web users.
So what are Progressive Web Apps, exactly?
https://www.itproportal.com/features/progressive-web-apps-why-theyre-revolutionising-the-user-experience/
