Mobile app design considerations

While searching for more research about app design consideration and interface design information , i find an interview about app consideration and suggestion from some professional in the industry.

Mike Gualtieri  explain that the importance of User Interface and the touch and gesture capabilities. These provide new ways of interacting with the app. Before designing the app, Mike advice that a great apps the designer need to understand your users better than they understand themselves. Mike also advise research before starting app is very important. Designer imagining what a user would find useful, usable, and desirable in the context of the app.

For mobile apps in particular, designers should consider the five dimensions of mobile design context: location, locomotion, immediacy, intimacy, and device.

J.D.Biersdorfer also give his opinion of what he think is important for app design. 

"I think the apps that work best are the ones where the user interface has been specifically designed for the phone screen and not apps that take the desktop approach (with lots of icons and menus) and try to cram too much into the space. A good app is also a stable app—well-tested and relatively crash-free."

J.D.Biersdorfer go straight which i totally agree and we find this in all the successful app for example like Instagram. The apps are focus on images and filter. There are not much of icon or design to confuse the user, and the simplicity keep the app relatively crash free. 

Best user interface need to include these specific element:

• Minimal features set optimized for compact screen size for common use cases.
• Nice font and readable font size is important for user to view.
• Features must be progressively displayed so user can view one screen at a time.
• Noticeable buttons are used to make interactions actionable.
• Interactions of the app should be conventional and consistent
• The interface design need to be simple and understandable so that the user needs little instruction.
• Information placement and arrangement need to be careful while design, don't allow too much font in one pages. Is very hard to get information from a small screen with so many fonts.

Webdesigner Depot. 2011. Mobile app design considerations for web designers. [online] Available at: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/09/mobile-app-design-considerations-for-web-designers/ [Accessed: 4 Aug 2013]

I found this that tell about waht are the consideration while designing an application so that i compare with instagram app design.