{"id":189,"date":"2011-12-22T08:51:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vanitypoint.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-12-22T08:51:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:51:05","slug":"5-fantastic-tips-for-a-great-mobile-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/mobile-application-development\/5-fantastic-tips-for-a-great-mobile-application\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Fantastic Tips For A Great Mobile Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important elements to a great app is a high level of usability. Apps that are easy to use get used. Apps that are confusing or difficult to use are ignored or quickly get deleted. Here are 5 tips to improve your app&#8217;s usability and help you get the most out of your <a href=\"http:\/\/vanitypoint.com\">mobile application development<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. The layout of <a href=\"http:\/\/vanitypoint.com\">mobile applications<\/a> should be clean and easy to navigate. Lay out any <a href=\"http:\/\/vanitypoint.com\">mobile application<\/a> navigation in a format that makes it as easy as possible to get where you&#8217;re going inside the app with buttons and controls that invite you to tap them. Buttons should utilize contours and gradients that invite them to be touched.<\/p>\n<p>2. Focus your mobile application&#8217;s functionality. Keep your <a href=\"http:\/\/vanitypoint.com\">mobile application<\/a> simple and focused throughout the entire application. Determine what&#8217;s most important on individual screens and keep them simple and easy to use &#8211; remember, confusing apps do not get used.<\/p>\n<p>3. Have the look and feel of the <a href=\"http:\/\/vanitypoint.com\">mobile application<\/a> flow with the intended function. If you have a customer management app, skip the flashy layout and focus on maximizing functionality with a utilitarian mobile application interface.<\/p>\n<p>4. Provide logical pathways of navigation for users to follow throughout your app. Provide back buttons and let users know where they are at any given time within your <a href=\"http:\/\/vanitypoint.com\">mobile application<\/a>. Don&#8217;t forget to use simple, standard terminology that users will understand. Simplicity and ease of navigation will promote regular usage of your app.<\/p>\n<p>5. Make all touchable targets fingertip size at a minimum.\u00a0 Apple suggests touchable targets be at least 44&#215;44 pixels but we suggest larger, we have never heard users ever complain about buttons being too big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important elements to a great app is a high level of usability. Apps that are easy to use get used. Apps that are confusing or difficult to use are ignored or quickly get deleted. Here are 5 tips to improve your app&#8217;s usability and help you get the most out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[50,66],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-application-development","category-usability","tag-mobile-application-development","tag-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanitymobileapps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}