MindSea Digital Health Blog
News and insights on mobile app development, design, and digital healthcare
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4 Major Risks Of Outsourcing Product Design & Development
What’s the number one thing that keeps startups from succeeding? According to a research report from CB Insights based on the post-mortems of 204 failed startups, the number one reason for failure is no market need: Forty-two percent of the startups studied were trying to solve problems that may have been interesting, but didn’t address… Read more
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Six Great Audiobooks For Startup Founders & Product People
One thing that every startup founder never seems to have enough of is time. There’s not enough time to review every line of code. There’s not enough time to collaborate and bond with your team as much as you’d like. There’s not enough time to catch up on news or the latest book to shoot… Read more
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How To Build A Great Mobile App Landing Page For Your Launch
Your new mobile app is pixel perfect. You’re in the middle of trying to raise money or develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It’s going to be the coolest app on the market, but all you have in hand right now are visual designs. How do you get early adopters (other than your friends and… 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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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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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
