Are you a business owner looking to harness the power of mobile apps? What is the primary objective of any business? Obviously, it should be achieving high sales revenue! You should be aware of how crucial the User Interface design is because that alone can increase customer satisfaction and experience and thus helping to achieve your sales revenue. What is a User Interface design (UI)? User interface design (UI) or user interface engineering is essentially defined as a series of visual elements that a user uses to interact with a digital device or software. It includes the basic design elements that need to be present for someone to navigate your app and make decisions. Generally, a “good” interface design always guides the users on their journey over the entire application. Give your customers the interface tools they need in order to be successful and create the user experience that users really want. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first app or 10th, the design is crucial. Why is the User Interface design UI so Important? With the constant technological advancement in the 21st-century, people always want to experience the best out of technology without wasting too much of their time and exhausting their brains. It’s a real challenge for any existing businesses today to develop & sustain a website / mobile application that delivers complete user satisfaction. In short, everything is about the customers! Tech firms are turning their head & realizing just how important good user experiences are especially since this plays a massive role in bringing in high volumes of relevant traffic and creating stickiness. Put yourself in the end user’s perspective and take a minute to think about the below scenarios: 1. Imagine a mobile application that has amazing features but the navigation is really difficult to use. 2. Think about an app that offers a unique product range or service but fails to showcase it. 3. Consider an application that has great business potential but is poorly designed. Will you stick around and continue using the app? As a business owner, you should understand how UI affects your app and what you should do to keep your customers engaged with your business. To give you some help on some apps who have created a beautiful user interface design, let’s take a look at some examples. Hopper Hopper is an addictive mobile app which is hard to ignore. You can personalize your own bunny for your account during the app onboarding process. The onboarding process is very simple as they only ask some basic questions such as name, email, phone number. Then for verification, all you have to do is click on the link in the text message. It’s really easy to explore and find flights, and the calendar shows the minimum price that’s available with a unique color coding. Once you select your dates, you can choose to watch the flight and receive notifications along with price predictions and hyper-personalized travel tips and deals. It’s not the only app that has functions like this but they wat they have designed it makes it really beautiful to look at and use. Airbnb Airbnb is a popular online marketplace and hospitality service that enables people to lease or rent short-term lodging facilities. Their mobile app is super simple with uncomplicated, smooth, and very straightforward UI’s which allow the user to simply put where they want to stay, what dates, and how many persons to accommodate. They instantly have a selection of homes meeting their needs right at their fingertips. It’s stunning and elegant making it a fantastic app to use over any other hotel booking apps. Human Human is a fitness app used by people in over 900 cities globally. It provides insights into the daily fitness routine and real-time fitness activities around the world. This app acts as a stimulating factor to increase your city’s rankings by encouraging healthy mental and physical competition. This app really has an amazing UI, engineered by engineers that suits anybody. The slick onboarding process makes sign-up a breeze and the entire user journey is amazing. It’s free and tracks all of your activity 24/7. What are the UI Principles for Customer-Centric App Development? There are many different ways to go about designing an app, but there are some specific things you can do to make sure the design is up to par with what user want. There are a set of global user interface engineering principles when used effectively reduces the job of the designer and creates a lively connection with the users who uses the app. Here are six common UI principles to build a mobile app with a seamless user interface design and experience: 1. The Structure Principle This principle is based on the overall user interface architecture where there must be a purposeful organization of the design interface to make the user’s journey apparent and recognizable. 2. The Simplicity Principle According to this principle, the app design should communicate clearly and simply in the user’s own language. It should offer the user meaningful shortcuts and thus reducing long procedures to perform a function. 3. The Visibility Principle The design of the app should not have extraneous or redundant information because it can distract the user. The options and materials of the app should be highly visible but quick and simple as well. 4. The Feedback Principle The design should keep users informed of actions or interpretations, changes of state or condition, and errors or exceptions that are relevant and of interest to the user through clear, concise, and unambiguous language familiar to the users. 5. The Tolerance Principle The design should be flexible and tolerant, reducing the number of mistakes and misuse by allowing users to easily undo and redo. You should be able to do this while also preventing errors wherever possible by tolerating varied inputs and sequences and by interpreting all reasonable actions. 6. The Reuse Principle The design should reuse internal and external components and behaviors, maintaining consistency with purpose rather than merely arbitrary consistency, thus reducing the need for users to rethink and remember. 3 Common User Interface Design Screens Used Globally Technology firms build mobile apps based on their client’s requirements and business needs. There are a bunch of common screens that are applicable to all types of mobile apps. 1. Splash Screen The first impression of a mobile app will be the key determinator as to whether or not a user will continue using it. The splash screen is the first image that the user sees when they finish downloading the mobile app. They are minimalistic and has a name, logo, or slogan of the product/business. To ensure elegance on different devices, designers focus more on making this intuitive and attractive. Splash screens are recommended to be shown no longer than 3-8 seconds otherwise it annoys the users. 2. Onboarding Tutorial Screens These screens illustrate the navigations, flow and the benefits of using the app to the respective users. These screens appear when the users launch the app for the first time to get them oriented with the unfamiliar features and controls of the app. 3. Log-in and Profile Screens It’s pretty standard now to give users a more personalized mobile app engagement. Almost 90% of mobile apps offer the option to create their own profile and preferences. Login and profile screens are the most commonly used UI asset. Mobile apps have become an essential part of living and thus the need for a seamless user interface design to attract the consumer’s attention and increase sales revenue from the company’s products is crucial. UI development has become a significant part of today’s mobile app development and as a business owner or entrepreneur, you should concentrate on building apps that respond to your customers quickly and effectively. Who knows your app could become the next Tik Tok, Quibi or HQ. We at SDI have more than a decade of experience in creating and designing best-in-class mobile apps with stunning user designs and experiences. Talk with our one of our mobile specialist Sakshi Sharma at 408.621.8481 or email at team@sdi.la. It’s time to get your app designed and developed in a way that not only attracts users but keeps them.