Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Unit 6 Reading


Creating a mobile app is very popular today. There are some common people who create their app, such as non-technical people, independent developers, educators, writer, mid-sized and large sized entertainment companies.  It would be easy to create an non-profit app, but to create an app for profit and business need a careful plan before beginning to design, code and launch an app. For a profit app, we need to have a marketing plan that how much your app cost to produce before launching, or popularity on a common community. Moreover, those apps should be evaluated by qualifying people like iPhone app marketing professional, developers and people who already launched an app on App Store. Or you can ask yourself that your app solve problem, making people happy, or highly interactive if you got no evaluation.
There are few steps to create a profit app:
·         Develop an monetization marketing plan
·         Sign up a developer account for iOS, Android or Windows Mobile OS
·         Then layout your idea about your application:    Primary goal/content, primary information on home screen, where to begin for user to flow.
·         Identify the work position in a team for hiring: manager, designer, developer, promotion and planning.
In the sketching process, make sure that you don’t include words to the app icon. Because the app icon is kind of small on the screen, so the word will be shrink smaller inside the app icon square area. Also do not apply gloss effect (gloss on the half of icon), it will block your icon logo/design, so it creates an uncomfortable feeling for the user. Just make it simple, clean, readable in every details. In addition, you can plan to make your app icon look attractive and different among of millions apps in the store.
By the appearance of metro ui from Windows 8, the flat design is becoming common. In my opinion, its design is looking very clean, readable, simple,  clickable and also standing out. It looks simple but effectively, you can not confuse to asking yourself that what this app designed for.

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