The community of app development is increasing largely in recent years and creating an app for your business is within the reach regardless size and budget of your business. There are several mistakes that can be made while building your app which can lead to problems, costing a business time and money.
Here are some commonly made mistakes, so that you can aware of them and can avoid making these same mistakes.
1. What is the purpose of your app.
Your app needs to serve some purpose or solve some problem of your intended users. A purposeful app gives some level of value to its users because it solves some problem they are facing. App without a purpose will only live (unsuccessful life) for short on app store or play store.
2. Unnecessary functionality on the app.
Implementing too many different things into one app can have negative impact on the user experience. When it comes to apps, user can get frustrated when they aren’t able to navigate easily and do what they want to do.
It is always better to have an app which will do a few tasks really well, than over loaded functionality which tend to confusing the user.
3. Forgot about the targeting end users
Developers will often see things from their perspective but little thought is given to the person who actually will be using the app. Like how easy it is to navigate, how is the UI of the app and how overall experience of the end user.
Running user acceptance testing can help to define how well the app is working.
4. Define device and OS support of the app.
When considering an app development it is more important to specific with your requirements. The most important consideration is to clarifying the device you want the app to be compatible with and the OS it will run. Forgetting to this may lead costly to both you and the developers.
5. Unrealistic schedules
App development can take time as it is process to optimizing, testing and making updates until the purpose of the app is not fulfilled. As an owner of the business it is OK to be eager during the production process, because you want things to be made as early as possible and launched the app. However, you need to make sure you are working with the development team and have realistic date for every body who are involved in process in which you can launched a perfect bug free app.
6. Forgot about the feedback before launching the app.
Getting feedback from others is valuable practice as it allows you to see things from perspective of the targeted users. Once you have been working on development of the app for a while, you will start to go blind to the errors. Having someone else review and feedback is an important step to catch mistakes it may have.
7. Marketing strategy for your app
There are number of apps for users to choose from and search through before they select yours. So, you’ve got to use all of your available channels to market your app. Social media is a great resource for this, because it’s easy to connect and share with other like-minded users.
Work to avoid these mistakes and you should have a successful app build and launch.
