MindSea Digital Health Blog
News and insights on mobile app development, design, and digital healthcare
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How The Best App Teams Build & Launch Habit Forming Apps
What do cigarettes, liquor and Facebook have in common? They’re addictive. Or at least that was the way Y Combinator founder Paul Graham put it in his essay “The Acceleration of Addictiveness.” In the essay, Graham reveals that many of these addictive things are more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Further, he points out… Read more
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What We Learned From Studying Some Of The Top Mobile Apps For 2016
Our smartphones are increasingly becoming extensions of ourselves – and apps are responsible. App makers continue to push the envelope, innovating with newly developed functions, features and distractions you can either blame or applaud for everyone being glued to their mobile screens. In my job as Senior Product Strategist at MindSea, I help would-be app… Read more
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The Step-By-Step Process For Winning With An App Redesign
App redesigns have received a bad rap over the last few years. As mobile app creators, we’re always watching to see how the user bases of the most popular apps respond to a redesign. We watch not only how these companies conduct themselves during the rollout but also how they conduct initial user research for… Read more
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How To Conduct User Research That Drives UX Success
When an app’s UX has the mobile industry and customers drooling, it’s not magic or luck. Instead, it’s based on a deep understanding of the user, an understanding that can come from both qualitative and quantitative insights. In this post, I want to talk about the importance of attaining these insights and how design teams,… Read more
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How To Find Your Role On A Mobile Project
Is your company thinking about developing a mobile offering? Are you hoping to head up the project? Maybe even position yourself as your company’s mobile app expert? You won’t hear any naysaying from us. The MindSea team knows apps are incredibly exciting territory – especially when it’s new ground for employees and/or tech startup entrepreneurs… Read more
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To Build An Amazing Design Team, Founders Should Start Here
Today, you’re going to learn how to build an amazing design team. In most startups, design is often overlooked or seen as a nice-to-have instead of a must-have. But this mentality can quickly send startups on a one-way trip to the startup graveyard. The first thing founders need to understand when thinking about the design… Read more
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We Studied The Top 25 iMessage Apps On Product Hunt (Mobile App Research)
We recently analyzed the top iMessage apps on Product Hunt to answer this question: What factors go into creating an iMessage app that people really want? We looked at the types of iMessage apps. We looked at the role of these different apps. We looked at the user experiences of these apps. And in doing… Read more
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Why Most Apps Built By Large Companies Fail (And How To Ensure Yours Doesn’t)
When a startup enters the market and disrupts an industry leader with what seems like just a simple mobile app, it’s not magic or luck. It’s their competitive advantage. It’s their ability to do something that an incumbent overlooked or ignored. Research shows that 45 percent of large enterprises struggle to produce mobile apps. The… Read more
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5 Billion People Will Have Smartphones In 2020: Here Are 5 Predictions
A few weeks ago I ran into a new graduate at an event and he asked me a loaded question. He asked: “What do you think the world will look like in 2020?” To suggest that I could have gone on for days about this topic would be an understatement. Instead of spending hours talking about the future… Read more
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How Long Does It Take To Build A Successful Mobile App
When it comes to scheduling projects or determining timeframes, there’s a famous business idiom you might have heard (especially if you’ve ever worked in or contracted an agency): “how long is a piece of string?” How about ‘how long does it take to build an app?’ Figuring out how long it takes to build an… Read more
