MindSea Digital Health Blog
News and insights on mobile app development, design, and digital healthcare
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The Ultimate Guide To Understanding User Experience Design
Want to hear a crazy stat? 88% of online consumers are less likely to return to a product after a bad experience. And that number is constantly on the rise. This means that products that aren’t optimized for an ideal user experience is at risk of losing 88% of their potential users. So if your user experience isn’t built with your… Read more
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Mobile Design Best Practices: Why Old Tricks No Longer Work
There’s something special about turning on the radio and hearing a classic hit from your teens. It’s a blast from the past that sends you into a moment of nostalgia and memories. While old music conjures up good feelings, old design trends can quickly turn a mobile experience on its head. If you’re not up-to-date… Read more
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How To Know When You’re Ready To Launch A Mobile App
Want to hear something kinda crazy? Over the past few years, the app development and design team at MindSea has collaborated on, redesigned, built from scratch and launched literally hundreds of mobile apps. (That’s not even counting the apps that our people worked on before joining our team.) We use a consistent, tested process to… Read more
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5 Ways That Startups Are Going To Use Mobile To Disrupt Industries
We’ve all seen the buzzword disruption thrown around over the last couple of years. Nowhere is disruption easier to see than in a mobile phone. According to PEW Research, in the U.S. alone, 95 percent of the population has a mobile phone. And as of 2014, there were more mobile devices on the planet than… Read more
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How To Recruit, Attract And Close The Best Product Designers
The demand for quality product designers is insane. In 2016, product designers were the most in-demand talent in the tech industry according to recruitment company Onward Search. And in John Maeda’s 2017 Design In Tech Report, this sentiment was shared loud and clear: This means one thing for startups, brands and agencies: competition. It’s a competitive… Read more
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When Should Early Stage Startups Hire UX Designers?
Congratulations. You closed your first round of funding, launched your minimum viable product or maybe even bootstrapped your way to a handful of paying customers. Now your eyes are set on the next major milestone. And as a wise person once said: You can’t get to point B doing the same things that got you… Read more
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Should Startups Outsource App Design Or Hire For It?
I think you’ll agree with me when I say that building a startup is hard. The people steering the ship have to wear multiple hats and must constantly be on the lookout for opportunities to get further ahead. As the world of startups gets more and more competitive, the search for great talent becomes more… Read more
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How To Pick The Right Agency To Design Your Mobile App
A few weeks ago, I was travelling with the team and we were stumped trying to pick a place to eat. We analyzed TripAdvisor reviews and Yelp scores and posted in Facebook groups to get advice. The response was, well, overwhelming to say the least. There were more options than we knew what to do… Read more
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Five Things Startups Need Before Launching A Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Pop quiz: What recent approach to building startups has changed the tech industry? The MVP. Also known as Minimum Viable Product. Frank Robinson coined and defined the term and then popularized by authors Steve Blank and Eric Ries. An MVP is a product with just enough features to gain insight into the product and its future. If you’re… Read more
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Why you shouldn’t be afraid to share your idea
I get a lot of calls from app startup founders. Several a day. Most of them are in a very early stage with their business. Some are at such early stage, all they have is their concept. But there’s a problem – they don’t want to share it with me. Fearing to share a concept… Read more
