What do you know about User Interface/UI? The mobile application developers are well versed with the term offcourse. The question is put across to those who are absolute amateurs. Google the term and you get a clear answer to it: “In information technology, UI is everything designed into an information device, a platform through which a person interacts with an application.”
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Check out any mobile application, the screens that you access defines User Interface. Experienced and dedicated mobile developers hired do understand why they need to pay more attention to the user interface of a mobile application and carefully offer a lasting user experience. The design and appearance of UI keep altering in accordance with the genre of the application as well as changing human taste and preference. The careful market study brings forth ongoing design trends for applications preferred by the users. Afterall, ‘Change is the only constant.’
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Randomly opting for eye-catchy UI templates do not serve the ultimate purpose of an app developer in fetching maximum downloads. In the words of Steve Jobs, "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. The design is how it works." Hence, to make the design actually fetch optimum result one must offer exactly something that the prospective customers are looking for. The careful research on the ongoing UI trends can be the only answer for any application to survive the dynamic competitive mobile application development market.
On surveying few popular applications of the era, the latest UI trends have been summed up here to make your application 2018 ready:
* Play with vibrancy when opting for colorful gradients to design logos, buttons, and background for mobile app interface in order to create a sense of hierarchy and paint a beautiful picture by combining colorful gradients and graphics.
* Give an overlapping effect to the fonts, graphics, and colors to leave an impression of space within the application as well as convert the plain UI into more eye-catchy and distinctive.
* Create displays in the complete absence of borders to give the effect of a continuous story-like presentation with high-quality images to alter the rigid grid concept of mobile design.
* Avoid static content and go for video clips which are dynamic, unexpected, visually appealing and narrates an engaging story to keep the users glued to the app for ages.
* Cards and more cards designed intuitively offers that extra appeal when serving the purpose of displaying the cluster of information inclusive of photos, text, or links in one space.
* Opacity or transparency when designing the different components of the app interface renders a colorful glass texture to the design or give a solid character in chalking out the perfect design.
* Keep it curvy or adopt geometries for the fonts and the buttons keep the application neat yet eye-catchy without stealing user focus from the core functions of the application.
ü Animate the app interaction with animations added to icons, fonts, images and different buttons of the UI renders a positive and pleasing user experience to encourage increased user interaction too.
* Adjust color contrast for better readability and make the application more eye-catchy.
* Voice activated and or sound designed interface simplifies the entire process for the user and makes the experience more pleasant as well as enjoyable. Voice-activated apps receive voice commands and cute sounds to hear when visiting a website to select a command makes the experience quite intriguing.
* Mix and match all the UI trends mentioned here and elsewhere can be incorporated into a single application to obtain unexpected effects.
What did we learn from the points?
In response to the above question, two quotes pop up that best answer the question-
“Design is thinking made visual”, as quoted by Saul Bass
“Make it simple, but significant”, as was commented by Don Draper
Therefore, concluding on the note that…
Randomly feeding the application with any element that pops up on your screen when conducting research does not exemplify an ideal mobile application. In addition, the mentioned trends are to continue for the entire year of 2018 is highly unlikely. As a competent UI designer and experienced top mobile application developer, one must stay up-to-date with the constant market change and remain innovative in the face of any app challenge. Competent app developers like Fluper are expected to be proactive in order to grasp the changing user preferences and combine with the latest technologies to offer the most appealing application in the market. Staying abreast of altering market trends and open to sudden challenges defines the character of an ideal app development company.
Keep it simple yet specific since in the words of Leonardo da Vinci, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
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