How To Create An Intuitive Mobile App For Improved UX

The user interface of an app plays a crucial role in determining the application’s success or failure. If you will access the app stores for different platforms available out there including the Google Play Store for Android and the Apple App Store, you can see that there are innumerable identical applications fluxed in the app store.

However, there are some that are earning a huge revenue and enjoying their success whereas there are some that are doing nothing but only adding to the total number of apps available in the app store. What is the major difference between such apps?

 

 

There are several factors that contribute to an app success, and intuitive UI is the major key factor. If an app is well designed with an interactive and innovative UI, the users will automatically love to run the app and share it with their near and dear ones. Hence, whether you are creating an app for enhancing your business values or simply want to create an enterprise app for improved productivity, an intriguing and minimalist UI can make it stand ahead of its competitors. The paramount of the UI must be the key requirements of the target audience.

After understanding the significance of better user experience (UX), it is advisable to thoroughly follow the below mentioned app designing guidelines to ensure an intuitive and enticing design.

 

1. Don’t forget the Rule of Thumb: The way users hold and access their mobile devices plays an imperative role in attaining a great UX. While designing the UI, it is recommended to consider the way the majority of users grip and access their phone. It is important to keep in mind that the most of your target audience will be right handed. Moreover, try to incorporate the maximum UI elements at the bottom, because the elements at the top will be harder to reach.

 

What’s more: make the elements accessible in a circular flow rather than a linear flow, as the circular motion facilitates more convenience. This will help augment navigation ease and brilliant UX.

 

2. Maintain the consistency: There are a very few users who like surprises in the UI of an app, whereas the most of the mobile users often get annoyed with the hidden surprises. Thus, it is better to maintain the consistency in the flow of the app content and ensure a smooth and overwhelming user experience. And, integrate superior functionalities while ensuring their convenient execution.

 

3. High resolution graphics: Since, apps are the cornerstone of the Smartphones and high resolution graphics is the major selling point for Smartphones, integrating high resolution graphics in an app can do wonders. It will not only help you get over the outdated fuzzy appeal, but will also help you capture user’s attention and create a trendy visual appeal. Hence, whether you are integrating images or any other visual content in your app, try to use its high resolution version for highly captivating UI.

 

4. Appropriate and Common Icons: Icons are a significant part of a UI, most importantly when we are talking about the mobile UI. They can help you include comprehend info with just a small symbol, and we know how much the screen space matters, especially for mobile apps. However, to reap the complete benefits of icons, it is essential to ensure that you are integrating commonly known icons in your app, like the logo of Facebook, Google, Whatsapp, and more for sharing, triangle to play a file, cross symbol to close a running file, etc. And, make them easily accessible by defining an appropriate size to it.

 

5. Manage the thin line: It is obvious that your target audience base will include both novice users as well as expert mobile users. Thus, creating an app to stand up to the expectations of the huge potential user base appears to be a cumbersome task. However, with an intuitive design, the novice user’s experience can be enhanced and the intriguing UI will help deliver a satisfactory experience to the experienced users.

 

6. “Umbrella structure” for ultimate navigation: For ensuring a great UX, it is recommended to create a UI design that ensures convenient navigation throughout the application. The “Umbrella Structure” for an app refers to the UI design that epitomize the entire app in such a beautiful fashion that a user can find the required info only by referring the app at a glance. This includes the integration of well-optimized icons, content and minimal options.

 

Bottom Line:

The aforementioned UI designing guidelines for developing a highly-functional and innovative application can definitely help you deliver a successful application. With intuitive, intriguing and intelligent UI, the user experience will surely accentuate and ensures user engagement for maximum time. Reap the benefits of the flourishing mobile technology and create a desirable application by following the current design trends and the above mentioned tips for surefire results.

 

Author Signature: Lucie Kruger is an eminent Senior Content Editor and IT consultant for Mobiers Ltd, which is the leading mobile application development company. She provides concrete information on latest technologies like iOS, android mobile apps development.