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8 Things To Obey When Making Mobile Apps

Updated on April 5, 2014

Things To Do Obey

  1. Do Be Sure to Update as Platforms Change
  2. Do Keep Your Apps Simple and Working on Most Phone Systems
  3. Don’t Get Too Fancy with Apps
  4. Don’t Make Apps with Low Resolution
  5. Do Maintain Your Client’s Login
  6. Don’t Use Cheesy Gimmicks in Your Apps
  7. Do Give Clients Recommendations
  8. Do Make Payment Options Easy

Avoid the pitfalls

If your company has developed a mobile app for your business and are launching it out to your customers, you still need to avoid the pitfalls during developing Mobile Apps for your business.

Being aware of the following will help to ensure that your mobile app and your business will continue to have success:

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1.) Be Sure to Update as Platforms Change


If you want your mobile app to continue to be used by your customers with no crashing, timeouts, or other annoying problems, then you had better keep it updated. Platforms are ever changing and getting new operating systems, so keep track of them and be sure to update your mobile apps accordingly.


2.) Keep Your Mobile Apps Intuitive and Easy to Use


If you create a new mobile app, it’s vital to ensure that it is user friendly and easy to navigate and work properly. If not, your customers are going to ditch your app and find one that meets their needs. So, be sure to optimize your mobile apps and keep them intuitive and easy to use.

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3.) Keep Your Apps Simple and Working on Most Phone Systems

New versions of smart phones are coming out all the time with various improvements and new operating systems. However, not all users update their phones every time a new version appears, as this can be expensive. For that reason it’s vital that even though you keep your mobile app up-to-date, be sure it is backwards compatible with the older versions of operating systems. If not, you will surely lose some of your clients.

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4.) Never Get Too Fancy with Apps

It may be fun to put cute animations and other sophisticated graphics and other things into you mobile apps, but these can make the app so slow to load that your customer will get frustrated. It’s better to just put in a second or two of some sort of intro to the app because your client wants to be able to get into using it as quickly as possible.

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5.) Don’t Make Apps with Low Resolution

These days most users prefer high definition graphics and video and most smartphones can accommodate them. If a mobile app has low resolution it will look grainy and bad on their screens and make you look cheap and horrible. So, always design an app with high resolution graphics.

6.) Do Maintain Your Client’s Login


Smartphones are usually kept with the owner 24/7, so it makes perfect sense to only require your customer to login once to your mobile app. Once they have logged in for the day, let them stay logged in until they decide to log out. This saves time, and you can make things go faster like saving their info or speeding up messages, etc.

7.) Don’t Use Cheesy Gimmicks in Your Apps

It may seem like fun for your users, but don’t be so quick to use silly and cheesy gimmicks when you create your app. For instance, there is a store that has an app that works when the user shakes their smartphone to activate it. This sounds cool, but it really isn’t that practical and can annoy some types of clients.

8.) Give Clients Recommendations From Time To Time


Your Mobile App homepage is just as vital as the one for your business website. Be sure that it is user friendly, and that clients can use features like search or browse, etc. as appropriate to your type of app. If possible, you can list recommendations on what part of your app is used the most, for instance the app used by a popular book store lists personalized suggestions on what book to buy.

Do Make Payment Options Easy

If your mobile app involves the customer needing to purchase something within the app, make it easy for them. If your business already has a method of storing frequent customer’s payment information, give them a way in your mobile app to use it seamlessly to pay for products or services in your app.

For instance, PayPal makes it possible for clients to just use their email and a PIN number in their apps instead of having to totally login to PayPal to pay for items.

The best layout is a paymentlink at the Bottom of a Form and on the Top of a Form

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