{"id":42083,"date":"2016-12-22T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=42083"},"modified":"2024-04-12T05:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:28:26","slug":"app-design-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/app-design-user-experience","title":{"rendered":"App Design: 20 Simple Changes To Improve the User Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"Apps are more influential than ever in our techy society. With mobile about to overtake desktop in terms of sheer user numbers, that’s no surprise. Today, according to Pew Research, 68% of Americans have a smartphone while 73% have either a desktop or laptop. The former has grown by almost double in four years, but the latter has remained virtually unchanged in the last decade.<\/span>And all anyone seems to talk about these days is the latest, hottest app they just downloaded from the App Store.<\/span>When you’re<\/span> designing for mobile<\/span><\/a>, it’s more important than ever to guarantee your user (customer, shopper, reader, etc.) a simply flawless user experience. Unlike surfing the web on a desktop, surfing the web on mobile is harder from the get go, as people have smaller screens, just one usable hand, and being in transit to deal with. Under these already trying conditions, a sour UX can spoil your entire app, even if you’re<\/span> designing with powerful tools<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>A case study like the<\/span> “Simple First Step in Building Your Mobile Appâ€<\/span><\/a> can provide powerful insight into tweaking the UX to design a successful app.<\/span>Here are 20 stellar design changes to improve your UX.<\/span>

<\/span>Go With Simpler Menus Instead of Complicated Ones<\/span><\/h2>Remember that screen real estate is very, very small on mobile, so you can’t design big, fly-out menus on mobile. The fewer layers of navigation you have in your menu, the easier it is for your users to find their way around your app.<\/span>\"screen-shot-2016-12-08-at-3-18-28-pm\"Again, due to the small screen sizes, a bottom tab bar with icons representing your menu items (think the Facebook mobile app) should be all that you’re using. You want your users to navigate easily, with just the use of their thumbs.<\/span>

<\/span>Try Progressive Onboarding<\/span><\/h2>Onboarding is the process of showing new users that your app can do what they want to do efficiently and easily. Onboarding is super-crucial to the conversion and retention of your users.<\/span>\"screen-shot-2016-12-08-at-3-12-44-pm\"Instead of bombarding your user with aggressive requests for excessive, personal information, use<\/span> progressive onboarding<\/span><\/a>, which gradually walks your new users through how they should be using your app, so that they can get the most of it. By using these tooltips or online prompts, progressive onboarding becomes an immersive learning experience that’s sure to increase adaptability, regardless of whether you’re looking at it from a<\/span> UX vs. UI<\/span><\/a> standpoint.<\/span>

<\/span>Rely on Fluid Layouts<\/span><\/h2>Fluid layouts ensure that your app will display correctly on various devices of different sizes. Think of it as enabling responsiveness in your app. These are the typical device widths:<\/span>