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Finest App UI Designs to Take Inspiration From
There’s a lot of work going in the world of application UI design. Any choice made will play a significant role in the success of an app. Your mobile applications need a functional design that enhances user experience and encourages your audience to get engaged.
An impressive mobile UI design must have effective user-friendly functionality from the user’s point of view and the app must be easy to use.
There are only a few mobile application development companies who are providing exceptional UI design interfaces. Here we have gathered some of the best mobile app UI designs. These designs are highly impressive and I am sure they will spark some inspiration. Whether or not you are designing a mobile app or not; these mobile app UIs are bound to inspire you to create something incredible. Let’s take a look.
Snapseed is Google’s comprehensive app for photo editing. My favorite photo editing is the option to go back and re-edit based on the saves you’ve made before. Snapseed’s sleek design and easy navigation catches attention of the users immediately.
Thanks to cutting edge technology, everyone immediately becomes a photographer with a smartphone Halide’s incredibly smooth design lets you to easily take amazing photos with gesture-based UI, Augmented Reality image viewing (with dual cameras), smart focus peaking, among many other cool features.
Amazing Note 2 incorporates great scheduling with notes, including pictures, voice recording, and even sketches. With folders to arrange your notes and to-do lists, the design of Awesome Note 2 becomes as granular as you would like. Keeping everything in the right place and still visually appealing is a heavy image and card.
This is a fitness tracking app’s redesign. The app offers different background for every category or topic. For example, the background on the right side is darker as it highlights your sleep patterns. While this background is lighter than the one on the left, all of them still look subtle.
It’s an interesting choice of design but there’s certainly nothing wrong with it because it fits well for the UI as a whole. The background reaching to the top of the screen and showing information such as time and battery life under the phone was also a smart idea; this makes the Interface much more unified.
It is rated among the smoothest, simplest, finest productivity app out there. In your to-do list, you can create a board for anything and drag /drop every task to monitor your progress. The iOS app’s layout is super user-friendly, allowing users to handle their activities on the go and not relying wholly on the website or the desktop app version. This app has a number of really interesting board backgrounds that you can either choose, or let Trello choose for you spontaneously. It is surely the best app design in our book on productivity.
This to-do app exclusively made for iOS and macOS. The app features a stunning interface with great attention to detail and interactions that make it fun to manage activities. The 3rd version is created with an out-of-the-box approach, developing a very unique user interface that does not blindly follow the majority of the applications out there.
One of the best calendar applications for Apple devices out there, created by Flexibits. This provides a much more elegant UI than the Calendar app owned by Apple. You can view your appointments as a calendar, take a look at the week or a whole month, or rotate the phone to display a schedule similar to your desktop.
Lonely Planet has just released an app that allows you to track the journeys shared by fellow travel lovers and to chronicle your own. The mobile app UI is centered around travelers wanting to share wonderful images with the world. In addition, the bold color palette that they incorporated into the app is a bonus.
With animated maps that let us choose the best route, Waze revolutionized how efficiently we get around. Moreover, the app was pulled together by their designers in an interactive and enjoyable UI design for the mobile app.
It is a weather forecast app which even allows you to see the changes of tides and the moon. The look and the feel of the app fits right. Its layout is clean, and you get to see what you want on every screen, offering all the necessary information that you need.
Thanks to its brilliant design, Marline has been acknowledged many times and has become an aesthetically pleasing alternative to the traditional weather app, putting it in the process on our list.
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Nov 21, 2019
Voice Technology Continues to Create an Uproar in Ecomm...
It is estimated that by 2020, more than 50% of the searches will be done without keyboards or screens. Voice assistant technology is transforming the face of e-commerce. Through voice tech, businesses have made it conceivable for clients to accumulate information, make purchases at any time by talking to devices in a natural, human-like way. It has made life easier for customers as well as enterprises. It helps improve customer service and provides a more personalized, hassle-free shopping experience to consumers. Many of the world’s largest technology companies, such as Microsoft, Alibaba, Apple, Amazon, and Google, are investing heavily in this field.
The development of Popular Voice Search Assistants like Siri, Alexa, and others is a great move towards e-commerce. Apple’s Siri is one of the pioneers which performed basic useful commands like voice commerce transactions, buying tickets for a movie, or making reservations for dinner. Smart devices owners are utilizing their Alexas, Siris, or Cortanas in our rising voice-first world.
Using voice assistant liberates and increases productivity to a degree not conceivable with mechanical interfacing alone. It is so comforting to sit at home and command “Alexa, order a burger for me from KFC”. This six-word command replaces the troublesome mechanical and cognitive steps of requesting through the internet or phone.
There are various benefits of voice technology. From browsing products, making purchases to communicating with the customer services team, voice tech offers these and more to customers. Because of the already existing home-based voice assistants, people have become more confident with regard to voice-activated search. Moreover, voice search brings convenience to customers and also gives retailers the opportunity to sell more and know more about purchases.
Check-out free shopping is already taking place on many platforms. Voice is now used as a verification tool for online payments, putting e-commerce a step ahead and making theft almost impossible. Therefore, using voice biometrics for customer identity is more secure than any other method. It is beneficial for both retailers and for customers since they become least receptive to any type of frauds and help retailers in the compliance of regulations.
While we cannot neglect the worth of human communication, there are good reasons to use voice tech in customer services and help centers. Voice technology helps strengthen the efficiency of your e-commerce store by helping you automate multiple processes which save money as well as makes the procedure frictionless for the customers. Personal identification gets much quicker without the requirement of passwords or security questions, which implies that calls won’t take much longer and call waiting times will become. It not only brings ease to the consumers to get through in the first place, but it is also faster, which ultimately contributes to improved customer service.
With the use of substantial accuracy, natural language-driven algorithms, automated voice recognition tools; retailers make learned judgments about the age, gender, location and even the mood of the speaker. All the data collected from the voice tech tools is highly valuable since you get to identify the customer without barely knowing any previous purchase histories or getting access to digital footprint data. Through this, a shopping journey is immediately tailored for each customer, even if they are new ones.
Besides, businesses leading to better conversion and retention rates. It also helps in delivering the most relevant and enhanced user experiences.
Voice technology has presented a unique opportunity for retail and e-commerce and it is a great chance of improved reputation and revenue. It will put the businesses at the forefront and will set to take the most benefit as they start to embed voice technology into their e-commerce stores.
With all this, businesses get to know their customers better through the data collected by the smart voice recognition tools and therefore they are able to create an immensely convenient and personalized shopping experience for every customer.
To improve customer experience, some well-known brands are already using voice technology.
Hilton joined with IBM have assigned a digital concierge. ‘Connie”, who answers client questions like “Where is the Elm conference room?” or “What time does the buffet start?” At the Henna na Lodging in Nagasaki, Japan, you’ll see a front desk where you’ll find robots instead of humans. These robots use facial expressions and voice recognizing software to help you with check-in. They can translate languages and have wide information on the area. The travel portal, Kayak, also employs voice-enabled, natural language technology to assist travelers in finding their next trip. Leisure businesses are built on pampering the clients with round-the-clock facilities. You won’t even have to move a little, not even swiping for obtaining data on your phone. Tourists build a very personalized experience, all the way down to obtaining data in your neighborhood language, to finding the closest family-friendly eatery in your budget.
Whirlpool has collaborated with Alexa for voice-activated machines. The tech smartness has reached to the extent where you can ask your oven how long it will take and it is going to remind you that your cake is ready. Amazon is in a race with Google Assistant and Apple Siri-powered Homepod to supply the finest voice-controlled smartphone. At this point, there are more particular players — like Canada’s Ecobee vs Settle. The Japanese company Gatebox has made a holographic anime character who can identify voice commands and can do almost everything like she will tell you that your bedtime is over, remind you to bring an umbrella because it is raining outside, as well as set your home temperature and lighting levels. Till now, voice technology and IoT have guaranteed a unique level of comfort and customization.
Let’s ditch the method of providing PINS and being pushed from one department to another. The Spanish bank Santanders app offers you the access to log in and give a quick voice command: “Pay Paulo $100 tomorrow.” This app can execute your command. You’ll be able to inquire for your most recent transactions and also report a misplaced card. Moreover, “Nina” who is a smart virtual assistant of the Swedish retail bank Swedbank, can answer site questions/queries in a conversational way. Apart from these examples, many banks are also utilizing voice biometrics to approve your identity once you call. Where your voice becomes your password, which eliminates the hassle clients encounter when they have to verify their information and explain their concerns to customer representatives.
You don’t need to type or scroll through the sites. Just call out to your digital assistants and ask for what you want.
It is not surprising that brands are now using and investing in voice technology. According to a study, 30% of business executives are already using this technology. All the smart IoT devices will function through voice technology instead of screens. Therefore, voice technology is bound to be the next big thing in the realm of technology.
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Nov 20, 2019
What to Expect from Google Stadia On Its Launch
The big day of Google Stadia is just around the corner. As announced on Stadia’s official Twitter account back in October, Google Stadia will drop on November 19.
Imagine a world where you don’t have to play the next big release title with extravagant gaming equipment. A world where everything you need to do to begin gaming is to open your browser pick a player, and start gaming – no waiting for the longer download.
This will actually become a reality if Google’s cloud gaming service, Stadia, fulfills its commitments – from opening a Chrome tab to playing a 4 K, 60fps player, everything done in 5 seconds – no installation needed!
At launch, Google has promised support for desktop, laptops, tablets, and smartphones – but just to initiate the Pixel series – without a hardware device, with games powered by Google’s own data centers instead. The cloud computing ability of Stadia, as revealed, is the equivalent of a console running at 10.7 GPU teraflops’, which is more than the average PS4 Pro and Xbox One X.
Google Stadia could prove to be an absolute game-changer.
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Nov 19, 2019
Tips to Revamp Your Facebook Business Page
Facebook business pages help improve your business’s visibility, build an online presence, and allow more than 2 billion people to find your business and its offerings.
There are many ways to ramp up your Facebook business page. In fact, most of them take only a few minutes to give you a chance to get more attention, reach and engagement.
At the top right of the page is the call-to-action (CTA) button. Make absolutely sure that it directs visitors in the right direction. Convey the action you want people to take through CTA, “Sign up” to an email or coupon, “Send Message” to reach you directly “Book Now” to make appointments, “Shop Now” to send visitors to your storefront. Pick the best CTA to make sure people are intrigued to take the action.
A collection of tabs will be provided once the appropriate template is selected. On the left flank side of the business page, you can find tabs and guide people to learn more about your business or maybe to pick up a deal. Also make sure the right tabs are “on” and the “off” tabs are not in use. It’s also recommended to ensure you have information available in the tabs that are on. In order of preference, tabs can then be organized. Tabs are a great way to share information in real time.
Facebook lets you pin a picture to the top of your page. It’s the first picture users will see upon opening your Facebook page. Although it won’t make a significant difference on its own, with other tweaks on this post it can help revive your Facebook page.
You may also change it daily, so whenever you have a new blog post or product or event featured, you can pin it on the top.
A video can be posted on a cover offering a great space for people to communicate a message instantly. Make a short video outlining your goods, services, sales, testimonials, or anything you want people to know about your brand; the cover video gives you a chance to get your message across.
Help more people discover your business and start building social proof by including Facebook Recommendations to your business page.
Apart from a five-star rating, there is an updated tool which allows fans and followers to post text, pictures and tags directly on your page, allowing others to see, offer better feedback and provide details about their experience with your organization.
Facebook offers settings for selecting a recommended model based on your type of business. Templates include services, movies, shopping, business venues, nonprofit, law, restaurants & cafes, video site, etc.
Facebook contests and giveaways are great ways to show appreciation to followers. Competitions also serve well enough to re-engage fans with your page.
Facebook Messenger is a popular medium for users to interact directly with your business. In fact, Facebook has expanded the Business Page Messenger to support round-the-clock customer service and responsiveness.
Once messaging is activated on your page, brands can create pre-set greetings and automatic replies to support you in off-hours and remain available to people with relevant feedback or inquiries.
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Nov 15, 2019
How Custom Web Development Benefits your Business
These days, all the major firms are opting for customized development of web development. It’s high time to build or update your website. Your business has unique aspects, and thus the look and feel of your website should be reflective of your brand.
While your company website’s look and design may be the first thing visitors note, it’s the functionality, features loading time, and scalability of the site that truly makes you successful throughout the Internet.
One of the greatest things you can do to ensure your business’ success is to incorporate custom web development. Custom website development not only helps improve your business visibility, it can also help your business in the following ways.
Using a website builder or CMS software usually offers you a readymade template to deal with, unless, you choose to have one built-in feature, which may be pricey. This theme enables you to put certain items in predetermined styles on websites, and this can create an impression of uniqueness when you are really restricted to the constraints of the theme.
There’s no theme with a customized website. The website’s architecture is based on your preferences and has no constraints or limits on how the website looks. It implies that no two websites that are built, look the same.
Such uniqueness will therefore distinguish your site from your competitors allowing you to create your site around the customer journey and concentrate on the design and development on the idea that your users will most certainly follow.
Most website builders or CMSs involve a number of built-in functionalities. That is to serve as many different users as possible, allowing such systems and platforms to reach the biggest customer base available. The dilemma is that this kind of functionality comes with every website created using these tools, independent of whether or not it requires it.
Website loading times are vital to your business which can be the difference between landing and losing a customer, particularly when customers look at websites using mobile broadband on mobile devices. According to research, more than 50 percent of website visits are abandoned if a page takes more than three seconds to load.
Custom website development helps you to minimize unnecessary functionality. In fact, building each one of the site’s functions allows you to optimize not only the functionality but also the design for these functions, further decreasing load times.
Security of the website has always been a popular topic on the web. Through the use of an existing platform to build a website, whether it’s a website builder or an open source CMS, opens up vulnerabilities which impact all other websites that use these platforms. It means that the vulnerability found on another website that has used the same platform, could be used to spread all other sites using that same version of the platform. The important point here is that many businesses that custom builds websites are also hosting these websites for the customer so the hosting environment will be optimized for the security of both the hosted websites and applications.
Having to share a database or design platform with a number of other websites, causes you to be attacked. If a website with which you share server space is shut down or infected with a virus, Google can penalty every website on that server until the issue is resolved.
Most of the website builders are neither scalable nor flexible suggesting their lifespan is very limited for any serious business. Custom website design offers customers with a user-friendly approach. Developers can scale the website’s design process and make necessary adjustments whenever needed. At the beginning custom developers set up a proper structure when designing the site’s roadmap. The website can be customized as needed or on an ongoing basis. Template websites do not provide us with a customization option, as many unnecessary codes that cannot be edited, create it.
Open source CMS provides much more scalability and flexibility although it comes at a price and usually requires a professional or business to be able to manage the system. With custom building, you can build your own website with scalability in consideration.
The ability and freedom for optimization for your business is one of the biggest and most important reasons to customize your website. Even though with open source CMSs, you can do a lot this is the most crucial part. It should not only be a marketing and branding function to build a website.
You can create whatever you want on your website from the start rather than going through thousands of functional and development choices. Including designing features that will support your business processes, you can also create a customer journey that best fits your business and customers.
In addition to simplifying your customer journey, you can also use a tailor-made website to automate many of your business functions.
In a nutshell; here are some of the benefits of custom web development for effective management of your business.
Before you decide to go for either web design or website template, it’s better to consider what’s going to be more beneficial. It’s also wise to bear in mind that you want your business to stand out among others. You may be investing more initially on Custom Web Development, but it can be a great investment in the future success of your business.
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Nov 11, 2019
Amplify Your Store’s Success with Big Data
Big data can facilitate online businesses in multiple ways. It has emerged as the basic ingredient of any successful marketing strategy which has revolutionized every platform of the industry.
Big data is constantly creating new challenges and opportunities that the information revolution has created. Predicting trends optimizing prices and predicting demand are just a few of the areas in which ecommerce businesses leverage data to gain a competitive advantage. The guesswork has been eliminated, and ecommerce businesses may now make strategic decisions about how to run their online businesses efficiently.
It is a buzzword which is referred to an immensely huge data sets which are analyzed to understand human behaviors and trends. This word has its roots in business management.
Businesses are built on the base of Big data since buyers are connected with sellers via online stores and mobile apps. Big data, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality have almost become an essential part of ecommerce scenario. But specifically, big data has emerged as a key contributor in bringing success to eCommerce. It has become an important part of all scale businesses today as it helps retailers to achieve their goals rapidly and effectively.
There are many ways in which Big data benefits businesses. Some of them are listed below.
By observing the customer’s browsing and shopping history you get to know easily what their preferences are and it can only be done with the help of big data. Once they know it, they are able to recommend the items of customer’s interest. The data is used to analyze to create recommendations. With this, customers have the benefit of looking for the items of their interest meanwhile owners earn the increasing profits. Not only does it help in understanding customer behaviors but also performs the requests of the large number of buyers within a short period of time.
Although people have shown concerns personal data reveal. But in reality, the data is only used productively in order to improve customer experience which plays a crucial role in any ecommerce shopping experience. And if it is not up to the mark, it can ruin real shopping experiences. Because if a customer is not satisfied, not only they’ll stop coming to your store but forward their reviews to other people as well. So, in case of customer experience, big data can be used to analyze delivery times and help companies in knowing their potential and solve the problems before customer gets involved. Also, internet frauds can also be tracked with the help of this data.
Amazon is one of the pioneers in bringing advance shopping experiences. They use big data tools to adjust pricing. They compare prices of the products with other retailers and then adjust their own prices accordingly. Pricing is a key element in making any ecommerce successful because people always look for the sites which offer worthy prices. Hence, the best proposition offered is the dynamic pricing, which means the price should be responsive to the user’s demands and competitor’s prices. And without any second thought, big data analytics is the most reliable tool which helps sellers with dynamic pricing.
Big data can help take a look on various channels of your company. Online retailers can remove the guesswork by introducing trend forecasting algorithms while predicting trends of what creates a buzz online. You can use big data to find out which product made the best sales over the period of a year. You can also measure your customer’s fashion or choice preferences which helps in predicting and thus creating better experience for them. Moreover, you can also analyze which colors, styles or cuts are famous which helps in keeping the right products in stock and offer the best rates possible.
Right stock of inventories can be a big challenge for online sellers. With the advent of big data, this problem has been solved. You can now build an efficient system to manage supply chain. Too much inventories can bring storage expenses and risk that the inventories might not be useful meanwhile the inadequate stock means the customers will switch to other ecommerce stores. Big data analytics can help in calculating the optimal inventory stock along with the prediction of booming sell in the festive seasons. Also, the companies are making use of IOT to collect data on huge range of conditions to redefine supply chain intelligence. Every e-commerce development company is keeping an eye on these factors.
Big data analytics lays the groundwork for new ways to deliver enhanced customer service by knowing and evaluating customer expectations and behaviors. Big data analytics also helps you learn the positives and negatives of your own business, helping you to build better product designs better pricing plans and better competitive capabilities. It has brought a huge shift to the ecommerce industry, but there are still endless possibilities to be explored.
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Nov 8, 2019
Content Writing: Do’s and Don’ts
Content is as critical as your website’s architecture and functionality because it determines the performance of your search engine results, improves access to your page and positions your business as an expert in the market. And in today’s content marketplace, the ability to gain leverage content for business outcomes is measured by both quality and quantity.
Your website markets your business. If the content writing of your website is sloppy, bloated, or confusing, it will make your brand impression negative — and then you will lose customers, regardless of how good your products or services are.
Here we have listed some do’s and don’ts to make it easy for your business to excel through content marketing.
Since screen read speeds are slower than print speeds, people can skim the text quickly. Long stretches of text, particularly while reading on computers and tablets, are hard for users to read. Whenever possible, split your content into shorter paragraphs, bullet points and lists. Sometimes, work in some subheads whenever you can.
Write, edit and revise. Go back and think how to smooth the rough edges of your writing after you’ve created a first document. Chop everything unnecessary during rewriting, and make it simpler.
Learn about on-page SEO. Doing so will help a business to ease things, whether or not they have a SEO team. Think about internal linking processes to transfer link capital to sites that you want both readers and search engines to highlight.
In addition to learning the topic you write for, learn about that niche in reputed publications on a regular basis. Find and follow the lessons of existing blogs with successful writers. A quick ‘writing tips’ search on Google provides more than a million pages. Whether from colleges or some lesser-known writers, you’re sure to find something there.
Attempting to give your content piece a new makeover is what differentiates your article or blog from everyone else’s. To attract a credible audience, this specific perspective is important. You may take inspiration from their style, but you don’t have to copy that. Because every person is distinctive and unique, so they should possess a varied style of writing.
This is a chance to actively interact with people reading your work Not all comments have to be replied, but be sure to respond to those who do. Even sometimes just showing up and posting “Thanks for reading my blog” is worth it.
Posting different ways on a number of social media platforms can let you engage with a range of audiences Don’t hesitate about using social media to share your posts Everything that promotes the finding of your blog for potential readers should be a must
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Although readers come for information and creativity on your website, they also need to be visually stimulated. Not every post can lend itself to an image, but take advantage of it when they do.
One needs to have vast knowledge about the topic they are writing on, particularly in the B2B industry. To build credibility and justify your claims, have facts, information and metrics. To keep new ideas and content flowing, keep up with the research. No research should be directly followed by writing and planning.
Whether you are linking to other blogs or websites that contain great information or linking to past posts on your own site, do it whenever you can. It will not only help boost the number of clicks, but also help with the search engine rankings of your blog.
Make sure every piece of content is written for one single topic only. Adhere to this point and stop wandering to different topics. It is completely okay to discuss the related stuff; just make sure you don’t mix different ideas into one piece of content. It hinders user’s momentum of reading.
Never copy anyone’s content and publish it. I repeat, never! Instead, take cues, draw inspirations and create your own unique content. Your content is what inspires people when it is written in your voice of writing. It is what holds them there.
Everyone has their own strategies and different audience to speak to. The only time you must pay attention to the competitors of your company is when you are writing for keyword rankings or top linking websites.
Keep on scheduling your posts consistently. If you are doing it twice a week, schedule them at the same times on the same days based on analytics of when that website typically gets its most traffic.
Keywords are a way of making the content relevant, readable and search-friendly. But it does the complete opposite when you start stuffing in keywords.
The title decides whether the rest of your work will be read by audiences. If the title does not catch attention, provoke an emotion, or make the reader want to know more about the topic, there are high chances that you won’t achieve the desired results.
Getting into someone else’s shoes and being willing to write in just the same way is not what you should be doing. The writing style is the writer’s persona, its own identity. So, create your own exclusive ways of delivering content.
Nobody gets to read every word on the page. Readers have short spans of attention, and they just scan your content for the main takeaways Usually, some interesting writers are concise in their write ups. They understand the fact that to deliver thoughts or points, you don’t need to get very descriptive and they avoid writing just for the sake of increasing the word count.
A lot of businesses or organizations expect to get ROI immediately in a matter of a few days or weeks. Any organization’s ongoing content campaigns take at least six months (after some strong SEO work) or more.
Don’t write to please the search engine; instead, please your reader. SEO strategy is needed for what content is required, so don’t put completely focus on it. Although SEO is vital for ranking, the content that is written must be the main focus and SEO shouldn’t let you lose it.
just because you’ve committed to writing multiple articles doesn’t mean the articles should be sub-par reading. Submitting sloppy work is the easiest way to damage your own credibility Therefore, check for spelling and grammatical errors and establish a solid structure of sentences throughout.
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Nov 7, 2019
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