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Whether you are new to app user interface (UI) design or simply looking for some inspiration for your next app project, here is our pick of the best online resources and blogs to help you design mobile apps. Beautiful Pixels often showcases the best in UI design, but they also link to some incredibly useful resources. Android Niceties is a collection of the best Android app designs, great for the times when you need a bit of inspiration to start a new design. Featuring amazing designs for both Android and iOS, if you ever need a boost in inspiration and creativity, just take a glimpse at Inspired UI.

Before the pandemic, only some 6% reported they would consider video chat dating to providers quickly implementing internal video chat features, starting with Bumble, followed by Hinge then Tinder. If you followed the last link to BBC’s piece on online dating statistics, you’ll see that there are several pieces of supporting evidence introduced, along with expert speculation, that suggests that video chat will be here to stay. Much like how businesses of all flavors realized that video conferencing saves significant time and money compared to physical meetings (even before the pandemic solidified this strategy), people in the dating pool have either used it themselves or at least realize it’s a viable solution thanks to discussions in circulation. When the necessity to use video subsides, it’s likely that usage of integrated and outside video chat solutions will wane as well.

While the coding portion is important, other processes like: running design sprints to plan and test a prototype, researching the market to identify a target audience, conducting additional user tests with that target audience, designing the UX and UI, developing a roadmap that starts with launching a solid MVP, working with stakeholders when deciding how to adapt to the user feedback, performing maintenance over time, and much more are all critical components of app development. An app development proposal for such an ambitious project would likely take a lot of time to gather information from experts like experienced field workers, meaning it shouldn’t be ready in a couple of days. Even if ongoing maintenance isn’t fleshed out in a proposal, it’s important to discuss the matter with the agency to know you’re getting a product that’s not going to figuratively blow a head gasket its first time on the highway. Much like the developer example from earlier where you wouldn’t want to hire a game developer to work on a healthcare app, it’s best to find agencies that have a good track record of specific expertise.

You can’t under-build because it’s not viable (with users), but you can’t overbuild because it’s no longer minimal (and you’ve overspent). The biggest factor that determines whether you’ll be the 1 in 10 digital company that survives or the 9 in 10 that goes up in flames, is whether you continue to learn from your users and evolve the product to fit their needs and the needs of the next batch of users–that would use your product if only it did XYZ. Maintenance can range from $4,000 to $20,000 per month in the app development costs equation, depending on your need for things (at the higher end of that range) like 24-hour technical support; help with analytics analysis; assistance in product road mapping. These costs start at $250 to $500 per month and go up to thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per month depending on how many users you have.