{"id":5228,"date":"2021-07-21T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aqbsolutions.com\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:49:38","slug":"ux-centric-app-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqbsolutions.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/21\/ux-centric-app-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"UX-centric app designs are the call of the day."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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Did you know? As per Walkers\u2019 Customers 2020\u2019 report<\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> customer experience is likely to take over price and product as the key brand differentiators. In a separate study by Forrester, it was found that there is a 400% chance of visit-to-lead conversion if apps have a superior user experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Businesses are driven by how users behave around their products. This is also guided by the way their products are designed. Customer-centric apps, therefore, need to understand that building apps is one thing, but designing them as per customer demands is another.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Stated below are a few ways to achieve a better user experience with your apps.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dive right into UX research first<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Your app design would be incomplete without this step since user behavior around an app decides the improvements it requires. Basically, UX research saves money, improves the end-user experience, and improves the chances to make improvements and adjustments during the development stage. UX research comprises different steps- desk research, expert evaluation, competitors analysis, in-depth interview, behavioral analysis, Heatmap analysis, product idea validation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Hiring Users for feedback<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

One of the best practices adopted by best app development companies is to set a target group and higher them to use their products. The size of the respondents can range from 5 to 20 depending on the project.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Planning for the design<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Keeping the UX and the clients in mind, one of the best practices includes looping the clients in every stage of the design. This avoids extra costs and iterations at the end of the process. Additionally, the end product is as per market standards and foolproof. It has been witnessed that such processes reduce the turnaround time by 4X and improve cost optimization by 70%.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Execution<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

One of the most important aspects of any project cycle, the execution stage decides the success or failure of a project. It is, therefore, an important task to conduct thorough testing of the software product at this stage. However, experts like aQb choose to test the product performance at every stage of the development cycle so that there are no last-minute changes to be done, affecting the market-turnaround time and the quality of delivery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Now that we have discussed the best practices in the various stages of the development cycle, it\u2019s time to talk about a few more aspects that are part of the cycle but need separate attention.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The importance of in-depth interviews<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A UX research will be incomplete without in-depth interviews of IDIs. It is a qualitative research method, which involves individually interviewing the potential users of the product. It is done to understand the interests of the users. This step primarily helps in achieving the following milestones that are integral to the research stage:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n