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Latest Trends In Mobile App
Design & Development
In any industry, trends reflect people’s needs. Need for modification follows us wherever we go — and mobile app development is not an exception. Strictly speaking, new technologies have become the leader of human progress, that’s why their changes are quite significant to any of us. UI/UX design is a visual part of this chameleonic process. Opening an application, users expect to see something really incredible. And usually, only a few minutes spent with the app make them stay or leave. Today, we’re going to observe 10 app design trends that check with user interests and expectations. At the same time, these trends are building a foundation for new changes in the foreseeable future.
Minimalism And Simple Color Schemes
The concept of speed does not necessarily concern only the technical side of the application. When the app has too many design elements, it may cause much-unwanted confusion for the user. Creating a minimalistic design makes the whole experience much easier — just click that button! Those products which no longer apply distracting tinsel in their work will definitely move forward. “Less is more” rule also pertains to the variety of colors. You might have already noticed that lots of your favorite applications have at least one common feature — they all choose one color and a few of its shades.Several years ago, Material Design introduced to us a new concept based on simplicity, light backgrounds, and subtle colors. The time has come to change this setup — and first steps were made in the right direction. Let’s learn more about Material Design and its topicality in the next chapter.
Material Design
It was 2014 when we first met the concept of Material Design. This new update was brought to the world by Google Inc., and since then lots of work has been done to improve the app market appearance. Material Design has its own mission and goals, but at its core, there is a simple application using all available space effectively. Nowadays, Material Design appears to be the most flexible solution offering light and dark backgrounds. As for the general simplicity, you can find it in numerous popular applications available for both Android and iOS platforms. Moreover, Material Design gives space for creativity and innovations letting designers add more features to the new version. It led to the diversity in the color hierarchy and functionality and also created the tendency of skeuomorphism in the mobile app design. Despite the word being pretty long and scary, this concept brings us back to basics. Skeuomorphism represents an application as a physical object making it a habitual thing from our everyday life.
In App Gesticulation
It felt so weird using sensory smartphones when they just appeared on the market. But the things change so fast in the mobile world! Now, simple tapping doesn’t have any surprises. Along with pressing the screen, we also can drag, pinch, press and tap at the same time, spread, double tap… Have we missed something? And what an astonishment it could be to find a new gesture in the application! It’s too soon to assume designers have used all their creativity in this regard. Besides, gestures seem more exciting than using buttons because of these reasons. Hand-play makes the user experience more real and erases borders between a smartphone and its owner.Gestures make it faster! We’ve mentioned it at the beginning — UI/UX design should be as fast as the technological side of the app. Deleting a letter within a second is more than possible now.
New Instruments of Mobile Navigation
Phablet devices appeared about 5 years ago, and they brought more challenges for UI/UX specialists. The thing is, phablets changed the way we hold a smartphone. It seemed like designers have just coped with navigation in standard mobile phones when they must deal with new difficulties. The current situation makes designers reconsider their approaches. The key factor stays the same — users should be able to get to all necessary areas on the screen with a thumb. What has been already invented is gathering elements at the bottom of the screen. But the finish is surely far away. This type of navigation needs more improvements, which are constructed at this very moment.
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