#Business apps

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Top Mistakes to Avoid in Business App Development

In today’s digital landscape, a well-designed business app can become a powerful tool for engagement, efficiency, and growth. However, developing a successful app requires more than just coding skills — it demands insight into user needs, a clear vision, and a proactive approach to challenges. CodeRower specializes in building apps that avoid these pitfalls from the ground up, ensuring your business app maximizes its potential. Here are the top mistakes to avoid in business app development and how CodeRower can help steer you towards success.

1. Overlooking Market Research

Mistake: One of the biggest mistakes is to skip market research, which can lead to developing an app that fails to address user needs or the demands of your target market. This is especially risky when competitors already offer similar apps.

Solution: Conduct thorough market research. Understand your audience, study competitors, and pinpoint gaps in the market. Insights from this research will guide you in creating unique, user-focused features that make your app stand out.

How CodeRower Helps: At CodeRower, we incorporate comprehensive market research at the start of every project. By working closely with clients to analyze audience needs and industry trends, we ensure your app fills unique market gaps, enhancing its relevance and appeal.

2. Starting Without Clear Goals and KPIs

Mistake: Developing an app without clear objectives or KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) is like setting off on a journey without a destination. Unclear goals often result in an unfocused app that doesn’t effectively solve user needs or business challenges.

Solution: Establish specific goals for your app, like boosting customer engagement, streamlining a process, or improving sales. Set measurable KPIs (like user retention or active sessions) to track your progress and ensure the app delivers tangible benefits.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower aligns every project with the client’s unique goals. By defining clear KPIs from the outset, we track performance and provide data-driven insights to optimize the app’s success, ensuring it remains in line with your business objectives.

3. Ignoring Platform-Specific Design Guidelines

Mistake: Each platform (iOS, Android, etc.) has unique design guidelines and usability conventions. Ignoring these guidelines can result in an app that feels unnatural on certain platforms, leading to poor user experiences and decreased engagement.

Solution: Align your app’s design with platform-specific guidelines — such as Android’s Material Design and Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. By respecting these conventions, you’ll create a more intuitive and cohesive experience that feels natural for each platform’s users.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower’s designers are well-versed in platform-specific guidelines, crafting experiences that feel seamless across iOS and Android. This attention to detail ensures that your app delights users on every device, enhancing satisfaction and retention.

4. Not Planning for Scalability

Mistake: Building an app without considering its future scalability can result in poor performance, system crashes, and a frustrating user experience as the user base grows.

Solution: From the start, choose a scalable architecture that can grow with user demands. Cloud solutions, flexible databases, and modular code will enable your app to handle increased traffic and data without sacrificing performance.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower designs with scalability in mind. Our development approach leverages modular architecture and cloud solutions, so your app can evolve alongside your business, supporting growth and high user engagement without compromising performance.

5. Overloading the App with Features

Mistake: Packing an app with too many features may seem beneficial, but it often leads to a cluttered interface and confusing user experience, making it harder for users to navigate and causing frustration.

Solution: Prioritize essential features that align with your core objectives. Start with an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that includes only the most critical functions. Gradually add new features based on real user feedback to ensure they genuinely enhance the experience.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower follows an MVP-first approach, launching with core features and incrementally adding user-requested functionalities. This process keeps the app focused while providing room for user-driven growth and enhancement.

6. Underestimating Security Needs

Mistake: Security issues not only risk user data but can also lead to a loss of trust, negative publicity, and regulatory penalties, especially for business apps handling sensitive information.

Solution: Make security a priority. Implement data encryption, secure user authentication, and conduct regular audits. For apps handling personal information, ensure compliance with standards like GDPR or HIPAA to avoid legal complications and reassure users.

How CodeRower Helps: Security is at the core of CodeRower’s development process. From data encryption to regulatory compliance, we ensure your app adheres to best practices, protecting both your business and user data while meeting necessary legal standards.

7. Neglecting UX/UI Design

Mistake: Poorly designed UX/UI can deter users from engaging with the app, no matter how functional or innovative it is. Slow loading times, confusing navigation, or a lack of responsive design all negatively impact the user experience.

Solution: Prioritize clean, intuitive UX/UI design. Keep the interface simple and user-friendly, with responsive navigation. Consistently test and refine the UX/UI to eliminate friction points and optimize for different devices.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower’s UX/UI team specializes in creating intuitive designs that elevate user experience. By continuously testing and refining layouts, we build apps that are easy to navigate, attractive, and keep users engaged over the long term.

8. Launching Without Thorough Testing

Mistake: Launching an app without rigorous testing can result in poor user experiences, low ratings, and damage to the brand’s reputation. Bugs, performance issues, and unexpected crashes can quickly turn users away.

Solution: Test rigorously at each stage — functionality, usability, performance, and security. Include beta testing with real users to catch potential issues before launch. After launch, continue testing and updating the app to maintain a high-quality experience.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower follows a rigorous testing process. We run comprehensive functional, usability, and security tests and conduct beta testing to ensure a seamless launch. Our post-launch support further guarantees that your app remains bug-free and high-performing.

9. Overlooking Offline Capabilities

Mistake: Many users need to access certain features offline, especially if your app is designed for remote work, field services, or other scenarios where connectivity may be limited.

Solution: Incorporate offline capabilities for critical functions. This could include saving content for offline use or allowing data entry and later synchronization. Offline functionality can greatly improve usability, flexibility, and user satisfaction.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower incorporates offline functionality for essential features, allowing uninterrupted access even without internet connectivity. This capability makes your app more resilient and reliable for users in any environment.

10. Failing to Plan for Continuous Updates

Mistake: Launching an app is just the beginning. Without regular updates, an app risks becoming outdated, leading to lower engagement and satisfaction as user expectations and technology standards evolve.

Solution: Schedule regular updates post-launch to address bugs, improve performance, and introduce new features. These updates show users that the app is actively supported and evolving, which can boost user loyalty and engagement.

How CodeRower Helps: CodeRower prioritizes continuous improvement. We work with you to plan updates that keep your app current, secure, and aligned with user expectations. Our commitment to post-launch maintenance ensures your app adapts to industry trends, increasing its relevance and engagement over time.

Conclusion

Avoiding these common mistakes in business app development is essential for creating an app that engages, retains, and satisfies users while delivering on your business goals. CodeRower’s expertise in market research, scalable design, security, and UX/UI development helps you launch an app that meets industry standards and achieves lasting impact. Ready to build an app that drives results? Let CodeRower be your partner from concept to launch and beyond, providing comprehensive support every step of the way.

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They didn’t even wait until the 19th to ban TikTok. Honestly I hope people realize how big this situation is. TikTok was a news outlet for a lot of Americans who couldn’t get proper news and information (especially when their own news stations are just propaganda and fake news we don’t need to hear), it was also a home to many small businesses and people just trying to make a living. The US government is NOT banning it because of “data” or whatever shit they made up—they are banning it to control the masses and more than just that. This is bullshit.

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Our team of experienced developers and designers uses the latest technology to create custom solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients. We work closely with our clients to understand their business goals and create solutions that help them achieve success.

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We follow a comprehensive approach to mobile app development, beginning with a thorough understanding of our client's requirements and objectives. We then create a detailed project plan that outlines the development process, milestones, and timelines. Our team of developers works diligently to ensure that the app is delivered on time, within budget, and to the client's satisfaction.

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20 Best Android Apps For Business Use

Gone are the days when apps were used for communication or entertainment, business apps are equally important now. As the world is growing digital, most businesses are investing heavily in apps, especially Android apps being one of the most popular.  Business applications help employees use the right tools to connect with the customers to make the most out of the business and technology…

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How lock-in hurts design

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If you've ever read about design, you've probably encountered the idea of "paving the desire path." A "desire path" is an erosion path created by people departing from the official walkway and taking their own route. The story goes that smart campus planners don't fight the desire paths laid down by students; they pave them, formalizing the route that their constituents have voted for with their feet.

Desire paths aren't always great (Wikipedia notes that "desire paths sometimes cut through sensitive habitats and exclusion zones, threatening wildlife and park security"), but in the context of design, a desire path is a way that users communicate with designers, creating a feedback loop between those two groups. The designers make a product, the users use it in ways that surprise the designer, and the designer integrates all that into a new revision of the product.

This method is widely heralded as a means of "co-innovating" between users and companies. Designers who practice the method are lauded for their humility, their willingness to learn from their users. Tech history is strewn with examples of successful paved desire-paths.

Take John Deere. While today the company is notorious for its war on its customers (via its opposition to right to repair), Deere was once a leader in co-innovation, dispatching roving field engineers to visit farms and learn how farmers had modified their tractors. The best of these modifications would then be worked into the next round of tractor designs, in a virtuous cycle:

https://securityledger.com/2019/03/opinion-my-grandfathers-john-deere-would-support-our-right-to-repair/

But this pattern is even more pronounced in the digital world, because it's much easier to update a digital service than it is to update all the tractors in the field, especially if that service is cloud-based, meaning you can modify the back-end everyone is instantly updated. The most celebrated example of this co-creation is Twitter, whose users created a host of its core features.

Retweets, for example, were a user creation. Users who saw something they liked on the service would type "RT" and paste the text and the link into a new tweet composition window. Same for quote-tweets: users copied the URL for a tweet and pasted it in below their own commentary. Twitter designers observed this user innovation and formalized it, turning it into part of Twitter's core feature-set.

Companies are obsessed with discovering digital desire paths. They pay fortunes for analytics software to produce maps of how their users interact with their services, run focus groups, even embed sneaky screen-recording software into their web-pages:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-side-of-replay-sessions-that-record-your-every-move-online/

This relentless surveillance of users is pursued in the name of making things better for them: let us spy on you and we'll figure out where your pain-points and friction are coming from, and remove those. We all win!

But this impulse is a world apart from the humility and respect implied by co-innovation. The constant, nonconsensual observation of users has more to do with controlling users than learning from them.

That is, after all, the ethos of modern technology: the more control a company can exert over its users ,the more value it can transfer from those users to its shareholders. That's the key to enshittification, the ubiquitous platform decay that has degraded virtually all the technology we use, making it worse every day:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

When you are seeking to control users, the desire paths they create are all too frequently a means to wrestling control back from you. Take advertising: every time a service makes its ads more obnoxious and invasive, it creates an incentive for its users to search for "how do I install an ad-blocker":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

More than half of all web-users have installed ad-blockers. It's the largest consumer boycott in human history:

https://doc.searls.com/2023/11/11/how-is-the-worlds-biggest-boycott-doing/

But zero app users have installed ad-blockers, because reverse-engineering an app requires that you bypass its encryption, triggering liability under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This law provides for a $500,000 fine and a 5-year prison sentence for "circumvention" of access controls:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

Beyond that, modifying an app creates liability under copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, noncompete, nondisclosure and so on. It's what Jay Freeman calls "felony contempt of business model":

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

This is why services are so horny to drive you to install their app rather using their websites: they are trying to get you to do something that, given your druthers, you would prefer not to do. They want to force you to exit through the gift shop, you want to carve a desire path straight to the parking lot. Apps let them mobilize the law to literally criminalize those desire paths.

An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it (or do anything else that wrestles value back from a company). Apps are web-pages where everything not forbidden is mandatory.

Seen in this light, an app is a way to wage war on desire paths, to abandon the cooperative model for co-innovation in favor of the adversarial model of user control and extraction.

Corporate apologists like to claim that the proliferation of apps proves that users like them. Neoliberal economists love the idea that business as usual represents a "revealed preference." This is an intellectually unserious tautology: "you do this, so you must like it":

https://boingboing.net/2024/01/22/hp-ceo-says-customers-are-a-bad-investment-unless-they-can-be-made-to-buy-companys-drm-ink-cartridges.html

Calling an action where no alternatives are permissible a "preference" or a "choice" is a cheap trick – especially when considered against the "preferences" that reveal themselves when a real choice is possible. Take commercial surveillance: when Apple gave Ios users a choice about being spied on – a one-click opt of of app-based surveillance – 96% of users choice no spying:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-out-of-app-tracking-in-ios-14-5-analytics-find/

But then Apple started spying on those very same users that had opted out of spying by Facebook and other Apple competitors:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Neoclassical economists aren't just obsessed with revealed preferences – they also love to bandy about the idea of "moral hazard": economic arrangements that tempt people to be dishonest. This is typically applied to the public ("consumers" in the contemptuous parlance of econospeak). But apps are pure moral hazard – for corporations. The ability to prohibit desire paths – and literally imprison rivals who help your users thwart those prohibitions – is too tempting for companies to resist.

The fact that the majority of web users block ads reveals a strong preference for not being spied on ("users just want relevant ads" is such an obvious lie that doesn't merit any serious discussion):

https://www.iccl.ie/news/82-of-the-irish-public-wants-big-techs-toxic-algorithms-switched-off/

Giant companies attained their scale by learning from their users, not by thwarting them. The person using technology always knows something about what they need to do and how they want to do it that the designers can never anticipate. This is especially true of people who are unlike those designers – people who live on the other side of the world, or the other side of the economic divide, or whose bodies don't work the way that the designers' bodies do:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/benevolent-dictators/#felony-contempt-of-business-model

Apps – and other technologies that are locked down so their users can be locked in – are the height of technological arrogance. They embody a belief that users are to be told, not heard. If a user wants to do something that the designer didn't anticipate, that's the user's fault:

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

Corporate enthusiasm for prohibiting you from reconfiguring the tools you use to suit your needs is a declaration of the end of history. "Sure," John Deere execs say, "we once learned from farmers by observing how they modified their tractors. But today's farmers are so much stupider and we are so much smarter that we have nothing to learn from them anymore."

Spying on your users to control them is a poor substitute asking your users their permission to learn from them. Without technological self-determination, preferences can't be revealed. Without the right to seize the means of computation, the desire paths never emerge, leaving designers in the dark about what users really want.

Our policymakers swear loyalty to "innovation" but when corporations ask for the right to decide who can innovate and how, they fall all over themselves to create laws that let companies punish users for the crime of contempt of business-model.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/24/everything-not-mandatory/#is-prohibited

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i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

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Discover everything you need to know about mobile application development for businesses in this complete guide. Enhance customer engagement, drive growth, and stay competitive in the digital landscape!

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jiang cheng's cloud recesses arc lets gooooooooo

wherein teenage hormones, shenanigans, and exams run rampant. also wherein jiang cheng's sanity, wei wuxian's undiagnosed hyperactive adhd, nie huaisang's grades, and poor lan qiren's blood pressure go absolutely haywire.

ft. the too handsome and sparkly lan xichen, who was everyone's queer awakening. (lxc's gay awakening was nmj lmao. nmj thought it was a cute puppy crush, and then they became tight ride-and-die besties/bros)

JC, of course, just HAD to have his sexual awakening during his first week in xianxia high school aiyoo rip it happens to the best of us babygirl