Mobile App Design Services

There is no predictable amount of time for mobile app design, in fact, when hiring a mobile app design firm be weary of companies promising unrealistic delivery schedules, as they are most like planning on cutting corners and not living up to the project scope. Having said all of this, any significant project seeking to follow mobile app design best practices is going to take a minimum of six months and more likely one year of actual design and development work.

There’s one simple reason for this and one complex reason. This simple reason is that custom mobile app design firms often need to create a usable interface design that users of all ages, demographics, and technical sophistication levels. The more complicated answer is that UI/UX follows a design protocol of checks and balances between usability, design, and functional requirements. It’s a process that runs constant user testing to validate progress and deliver a mobile app that is not just immediately usable but is also intuitive and effortless to use.

We’ve been doing mobile app design long enough to know that surprises can be the death of a project’s future success, unless the surprise involves early delivery or a reduction in cost. Knowing this we literally give our clients access to every platform we use. They can watch in real-time as designs are developed; see project scheduling and delegation take place within our team, and communicate with us at any moment to voice their opinions on what we are doing, and help us make decisions along the way.

The answer to this is simple and impossible to answer. The simple answer is that cost is in direct relation to the amount of unique functionalities required to achieve the goals of the proposed application. To come up with a mobile app design price for clients we first begin with an exhaustive UX discovery process. After developing a requirements report, user stories, low-fidelity wireframes, and persona specifc use cases, we arrive at place where a mobile app design firm can produce a formal and trustworthy mobile app design cost estimation.

Of course the obvious answer to this question is the screen size, but it’s so much more than that. Most people have heard about responsive design which take a desktop application or website and stretches it vertcially, staking most of the content to create a more readable environment. However, not everyone has heard of adaptive design which requires specific design layouts for each device size. A mobile app design company must understand these principles and have knowledge of both, while also understanding the functional possibilities of custom UI/UX mobile app design and development, as this is the next level and the ultimate challenge for a digital design agency.

The most difficult and most important best practice is to establish a regular and ongoing schedule for user testing. And equally important is the need to find several different types of potential users. The second best practice is to involve the development team as much as possible during the initial design phase of the project, which will save quite a few headaches down the road and create a stronger UI/UX mobile design application foundation and pave the way for a highly functional mobile app design system. Lastly, is the practice of creating well documented wireframes, leaving no function without a detailed expliantion and hopefully a solid set of clickable prototypes for the development team.