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A lot of the excitement of making your first app naturally comes down to working out how many cool features and graphics you can put in. However, as any veteran developer will tell you, much of the real meat of creating an app is in the less glamorous area of organisation.
Ease of Use
The number one core requirement for any app is making sure that users are able to actually do what they plan to do. A holiday app should let people book a hotel and flight, a streaming platform should get people to their TV show, and a banking app should give users the exact information they’re looking for. Proper visual organisation is the very minimum to stop users from getting confused.
A great example of handling huge amounts of content in a tidy way is within online casinos. The average casino site is already a vast network of different games, and some of the biggest have libraries of online slots and other game types going easily into the hundreds. Look at a casino app, however, and every game is neatly organised, filtered, and easy to find for players.
Shortening Journeys
The second step past making the app visually functional is not only getting users from point A to the point B that they want but also giving them the opportunity to go to your favourite point C on the way. Whether you’re trying to sell a product or get someone to subscribe, you will likely have some end goal that you’re looking to guide users towards and visual flow is a core aspect of that.
If you’ve taken pro advice before starting your app, you’ll have hopefully created a user journey map. For getting users through each step, carefully positioned visual clues are essential. This could be making sure that a key button is constantly present as a banner at the top of the page, or a core marketing asset appears front and centre at multiple journey stages.
Future Proofing
Unless your app is specifically built around one concept, odds are that at some stage you’ll want to expand it to include new features. Adding something to an already existing system is difficult enough from the technical side without even considering how all the new and old visual elements will mesh together. Done haphazardly and you’ll likely end up with visual bloat and a poor user experience.
You can safeguard against this from much earlier in the process by making sure that your visual design has the proper sectioning and components to allow for new additions later. Things like a dedicated space for offers or designs with room for layered menus can save you a lot of grief later, as trying to force these features into a closed design later can get messy.
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