This document outlines essential steps for creating a successful mobile app that stands out in a competitive market. Key steps include starting with a clear idea, creating a proposal, developing concept drawings, engaging with developers, conducting testing, and making revisions before submitting a final design. The process emphasizes the importance of market research, functionality, and feasibility to ensure the app meets user needs and goals.

1. Simple Steps to Creating a Mobile App
Every industry wants to be part of the mobile bandwagon. From small businesses that look to increase
their profits to big business houses who want to increase their ROI (return on investment), people across
industries are looking at mobile apps in order to enter newer markets. In this article, we look at
conception and design of any mobile app and what you must do to ensure your app does not become
just another one among the millions.
1. Start with a clear idea
This begins with research to understand your target market and your competition. Do you have a
completely unique idea? If yes, go ahead to step 2. If no, ask yourself if your idea is better or cheaper
than your competitor’s? If this too is a no, you need to go back to the drawing board.
2. Proposal
i) Statement of Purpose:
Identify need and solution
ii) Define target market
iii) Define function, display, and promotion requirements
iv) Determine revenue goals and methods
3. Concept drawings
Create Wireframe. Then, make your app beautiful. This is an important part of the function and design
part of developing the app.
4. To the developer’s office
Bring your proposal, research, and concept drawings. This is where you need to talk development. This is
the stage of app development where you learn that almost anything is possible, but not everything is
feasible.
5. Revise
Take all your great ideas, compute the cost (time + money), weigh it against value and balance then
both.
6. “Paper App” Testing
i) Select 3-5 testers that fit your target market.

2. ii) Ask your testers to try out the “Paper App”
iii) Present screen displays based on user actions
iv) Watch, listen, record
8. Revision
This needs to be done as mistakes that were not evident before seem to come to the surface when you
run through them once more.
9. Submit final design to developer
This is critical as it is the developer who has to finally verify if the design is feasible or not.