App Making – Designing & Marketing Successful Apps – The Guide + Extras – Jeremy Olson

App Making – Designing & Marketing Successful Apps – The

Guide + Extras – Jeremy Olson

The Beginning: A Very Good Place To Start

• Hello
• Intro To The App World

The Process

The Idea

• Can You Do It Better? Is It Clearly Valuable? Interface?
• Is It A Sustainable Business? Does It Fill A Vacuum?
• Validating Your App Idea

Strategic Design

• Analyze Competition And Analogs
• Brainstorm
• Your Users
• Your Users’ Problems
• Your App’s Answers
• Your App

Interaction Design

• Don’t Make Me Think
• Think Like A Human & Don’t Make Me Work
• Follow Conventions
• First Time Experience
• Settings
• Doing It
• Structure
• Interaction 
• Prototyping
• Usability Testing

Visual Design

• Visual Design 101: Contrast
• Visual Design 101: Repetition
• Visual Design 101: Proximity
• Visual Design 101: Alignment
• Delight Is In The Details
• Touch And Animation
• Icon Design
• Designing For IOS 7 And 8
• Tools Of The Trade

Building It

• Native Vs. Web
• Time And Cost
• Learning To Code

Marketing

• Making Friends
• Build Buzz
• Pitching The Press
• Get Featured By Apple
• Sustained Marketing
• And That’s A Wrap!