What makes a great app? To be more specific – what makes a as a matter of fact great movable app? As I have written in some of my previous posts there are unique challenges with mobility in terms of form factor (which is just a fancy way of saying gismo size) and what it means to be productive. These challenges are not all the time accounted for. Many movable app designs suffer from poor layouts, confusing functionality, or focus more on presentation and finding good over all else. However, if an app make misses the mark from a productivity standpoint you have nothing more than a pink bow on the fence of a feedlot.
Enterprises are swiftly lively away from desktop-based apps as their sole operational interface and towards an always-connected on-the-go experience. For many application developers it will be challenging, at first, to make this transition into the movable arena. Desktop, and to the same extent web, applications designed for large screen resolutions have been the dominant paradigm and have so much momentum that it is taking time and a lot of track to stop that train. A product’s movable Ui is often an after-thought; an ‘oh yeah – now let’s make this work for mobile’ conversation. Because of inexpensive monitors application developers have become accustomed to vast expanses of screen real-estate as their playfield for form, function, and beauty. Large screens are ubiquitous and as a corollary we have become as sloppy in our layout. Just as we went from as a matter of fact tight memory management to bloatware we have become footloose and fancy-free with taking up Ui space. Great movable apps will take this into notice -but how?
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Great movable apps join two uncomplicated application design/programming concepts – Use Cases and Crud – and correctly leverage them on every screen. These are level send ideas that consistently get sidelined over user-interface look and feel. So for you non-developer types, here is what the concepts mean:
1. A use case is a narrative of how a user performs a task.
2. Crud is an acronym for Create, Read, Update, Delete
Great you say – now how does that help me decide what is a great movable app? It is simple. A great movable app is designed in such a way that on any given screen users can only do one of two things:
1. select a task to do (Use Case)
2. Create, Read, Update, or Delete data on a singular task(Crud)
Not all tasks are created equal either. Great movable apps also take into notice which tasks make sense for movable and which ones don’t. The app should be designed in such a way that any given screen focuses on only one of those two areas – Use Case or Crud. Trying to pack anyone more into a singular screen will corollary in (pardon my colloquialism) crap. But you want Use Cases and Crud, not crap. Apps that hold to this make can’t go wrong. Wrap it in a sexy User Interface for increased “stickiness” (as they say in the marketing world) and you’ll probably have a home-run. However, a great movable app must have #1 and #2. Even with a boring User Interface it would still be a great app in terms of productivity.
Here is movable app nirvana. A great movable app is so intuitive that it requires zero user training. This means habitancy are sufficient from the moment they encounter the app. This limits initial training costs and doesn’t require much on-going user support. A great app should be so intuitive that users can’t screw up working with it – and believe me it doesn’t take much for them to do so. Think of a bank Atm as your target. If an app is more complicated than an Atm then you don’t have a great app. It’s not that the app can’t do complicated things it just needs to be uncomplicated to interact with. A great app also means an club will see a much quicker Roi. As well, the less time spent on interfacing with an application will translate into more time users can focus on other more indispensable tasks in your organization.
Why does knowing these two must-haves matter? Chances are you are probably not a movable app developer. If you are, use these guidelines as a beginning point to help make a great app for the movable ecosystem. For the rest of you here’s why it matters; today there are more than a million movable apps available for download with that amount increasing rapidly. Yes – many of them are just for fun and these guidelines don’t necessarily apply. But there is an ever increasing focus on firm productivity. Organizations are beginning to assemble movable strategies and are finding at the distinct areas where movable apps make sense. Once you are able to narrow it down to a handful – what criteria are you going to use to select a winner? End users need to be able to sift through the noise and find those apps that will propel them send as an organization. Educated end-users will query better apps and drive innovation. This will help mature the shop quicker and provide better returns for you.
Got an example of what you think is a great movable app for productivity? Post a criticism and let me know.
Great movable Apps – 2 Things They Must Have
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