How to Design A Mobile App. From Interactive Prototype to Branded Designs.
Startup Goals & Product Development. How to design your app. If you’re not a designer, you’re going to need a designer.
This video explains the process of how to work with a designer to evolve your tech idea, and demonstrates tools that you can use throughout this process from creating a mood board of design inspiration for nurturing your creativity, to creating sketches, interactive prototypes and branded graphics.
Where to find talented designers:
https://www.eman-designs.com/
https://www.toptal.com/designers
Toptal is also a great resource for finding developers for hands on coding, and even project managers who can help with planning and strategies on how to best execute the different phases of bringing your idea to life.
Tools references in this video:
Create wireframes and clickable prototypes with https://www.invisionapp.com/
Build a moodboard and find collect inspiration with https://www.pinterest.com/
A flexible drawing app for creating visuals such as interaction diagrams https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
Google's style guide for user interface design https://material.io/design/
Terminology:
Mood board - a type of collage or collection of art typically organized around a common theme.
Interaction Diagram - Images that visually describe a user’s journey throughout the app.
Wireframe - the digital or hand drawn sketches that create a picture of your product and help describe the user’s experience.
API - Application Programming Interface. One of the ways that programs and applications use to send information to communicate with one another.
Prototype - an early-stage sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept
Brave Goals - How to Bring Your Tech Idea to Life
I'm Charles, a Product Engineer, and I'm here to help you along this journey and share what I've learned from 13 years of working as part of teams of talented engineers and designers breathing digital life into what was initial just an idea.
Even if you're not a technical person, you can bring your tech ideas to life.
I've created this channel to share the practical steps that you can take to analyze your idea, and strategies for accomplishing the many phases of product development including user experience design, prototyping, branding, graphic design, developing an minimal viable product, user testing, system design, development, and getting your product into the hands of real users.
http://www.brave-labs.com