Category Apps

How do you go about designing an app? Well, first things first: Since there are so many apps out there already, it would be good to know what the curret trends and future prospects of the mobile app market are, right? Also, the process behind building an app should not be underestimated — there are a lot of things to keep in mind. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!

Email Marketing For Mobile App Creators

by Ros Hodgekiss

15 min read
No meows just yet

August 14, 2013 — If you’ve developed mobile applications or have just started building one, then you probably realize that marketing should be as much of an ongoing concern as the product’s design and development. ... Read More…

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Jeremy Olson wrote

Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 2: Marketing And Launch

July 12, 2013 — Our anticipation was building. Between defining our language translation app, sketching it out, obsessively designing and iterating, and juggling other projects — all covered in the first part of our case study — we had been working on Languages for close to a year. It was … Read More…

Jeremy Olson wrote

Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 1: Idea And Design

July 4, 2013 — My name is Jeremy Olson. I’m a senior in college, living in Charlotte, North Carolina, and this is the story of how my little app beat Angry Birds. Read More…

Sacha Greif wrote

Building An App In 45 Minutes With Meteor

June 13, 2013 — The other day, I finally accomplished one of my long-standing goals: I was able to go from one of those “wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas to a working, live app in less than 1 hour. 45 minutes, actually. Read More…

Lars Kappert wrote

Facing The Challenge: Building A Responsive Web Application

June 12, 2013 — We are talking and reading a lot about responsive Web design (RWD) these days, but very little attention is given to Web applications. Admittedly, RWD still has to be ironed out. But many of us believe it to be a strong concept, and it is here to stay. So, why don’t we … Read More…

Alexander Komarov & Nikita Yermolayev wrote

How To Design For A Maturing Android

May 8, 2013 — Android is huge: 480 million people currently use Android devices, and 1 million new devices are activated daily. This means that every three weeks, the number of people who activate new Android devices is equal to the entire population of Australia. Read More…

Greg Nudelman wrote

C-Swipe: An Ergonomic Solution To Navigation Fragmentation On Android

March 25, 2013 — There are 3,997 different Android devices. Your navigation should work with all of them. C-Swipe can help: It is an alternative navigation pattern for tablets and mobile devices that is novel, ergonomic and localized. Read More…

John Casey wrote

The Art Of Storytelling Around An App

March 19, 2013 — Every app tells a story. Apps like Pandora tell the story of music; apps like Tip N Split tell a story of a calculator; and apps like Temperature tell the story of weather. Then we have storybook apps like Alice for the iPad, which literally tell stories! Read More…

Zack Grossbart wrote

How To Design An Open-Source iPhone Game

February 13, 2013 — I love games and I’m a huge math nerd, so I made a new iPhone game based on a famous math problem called The Seven Bridges of Königsberg. I’m selling it in the App Store, but I also want to share it with everyone, so I made it open source. Read More…

Karolina Szczur wrote

Think Again: Assumptions About Mobile To Reconsider

January 18, 2013 — The popularity of mobile has skyrocketed over the past few years. We’ve seen six generations of iPhones, five iPad models, hundreds of Android phones and thousands of different devices being manufactured. Read More…