No matter how brilliant your app’s core functionality is, getting around your app causes more frustration for your customers. In this blog, you will learn how to identify and avoid common user experience (UX) mistakes in mobile app development.
Introduction
Today’s mobile users have negative patience when it comes to ordering from mobile applications. They knew good UX when they saw it. More importantly, they recognize delightfully intuitive navigation when they use it.
So you’d better come correct and avoid committing any of these deadly navigation sins:
Un-labeled anti-icons have no place in your navigation system.
If taps, gestures, transitions, etc., aren’t consistent, i.e., are constantly shifting unexpectedly, you have to correct all of those to increase the retention stats in full.
Remember to apply the same to your app’s infrastructure as you would to the design of your core functionality. Sometimes simpler is exponentially more usable.
Stakes are high, but the mission is simple – help users burn no calories by mapping their UI geography.
Navigation as Architectural Blueprint
Your app’s navigation system is quite literally the architectural blueprint defining its entire structural creativity from the ground up.
On the design side, getting navigation right begins with some fundamental questions:
- What are the core domains, objectives, and jobs to be done?
- How should those domains be organized into logical hierarchies?
- Where do we need to prioritize visibility for key utilities?
Answering these leads to your initial interaction models and UI flowcharts – the literally mapped journeys you’ll transform into final pixel-perfect screens.
It’s here where deadly navigation anti-patterns often get baked in as upfront design sins. Overly complex screens get locked in before they are pressure-tested.
These structural crimes directly shape the challenges your business will inherit.
Consequences of Bad Navigation
On the development side, a complex navigation wireframe is like willingly constructing your codebase out of a mess.
Your wireframe dictates the templates and navigation logic every flow will need to adhere to under each service. Here, a complex wireframe stacks different navigation states across your app’s hierarchy.
Moreover, quality attributes like performance and accessibility become more challenging to govern with every additional layer of navigational complexity. What started as a visually attractive wireframe can easily dissolve into technical debt down the line, chipping away at your app’s responsiveness.
That’s why it has to be pressure tested, documented, and ultimately distilled down to the cleanest yet powerful expression for your customer’s core journey. Don’t let aesthetic whims or assumptions steer you into a navigation circus. Prioritize learnability, sanity, and coherence from the first day before you bloat your way into something that should not have started in the first place. A stunning core feature set won’t save you from that backlash.
Building a New App From Scratch? Just Clone It!
There are too many app tycoons trying to develop their own apps from scratch, sinking months and even years into development cycles.
The simple truth is that unless your app becomes successful with the funding resources, you’ll get a mediocre development team coupled with technical debt.
Why bother building the next Uber Eats or Blablacar from scratch when you can literally buy a clone for a fraction of the DIY cost?
Professional mobile app development companies often provide licensed source code clones of market-leading apps with the heavy architectural lifting of:
- Rock-solid server/client infrastructure
- Payments/checkout flows
- Geo-mapping and location services
- Push notification
- And much more!
Reliable white-label firms can hand you the keys to these fully functional app, letting you rebrand the UX layer. Skip spending years tangling with development costs and roadblocks before seeing the light of day.
By acquiring a hardened, pre-built foundational app clone, you can leapfrog over the high-risk design and testing phase, separating most aspiring app founders out the gate.
It’s not just for MVP purposes, either. Think of app cloning as a leveraged shortcut for tapping into robust, marketplace-approved feature sets that cost tech giants hundreds of millions to build. Want to challenge Uber Eats with your own differentiating spin on food delivery? Grab a time-proven, white-label clone to outcompete them with speed and less upfront debt.
Capitalize on Existing App Models
Originality in the mobile app solution space is vastly overrated these days. Most customer pain points already have established app categories and consumption patterns to design against. Sometimes, having the good sense to embrace and rebrand a working model is better than fixating on reinventing the wheel.
Moreover, a clone shortcut lets you capitalize on years of real-world user data and feedback into their gold-standard architectures and UX paradigms. Why pass up that head start to ambitiously re-derive it independently at scale?
So if you really want to go from 0 to 100 in 1-2 weeks, start scoping out experienced white-label firms. They can hand you a user-tested app platform for your envisioned disruptor on a silver platter.
Conclusion
Stop wasting time and money when you could be iterating on proven solutions. Seize the advantage, put your dent in that UX, and ship a resonant clone experience to market first!
