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If you’re interested in creating a mobile app, it typically helps to follow a few guidelines.

Say you’re working on creating a solutions-based mobile app—an app that provides a solution to a particular problem. First, of course, you want to identify a particular problem. Second, you want to create a solution to that problem.

Simple, right?

Well, yes and no. The mobile app industry in Canada and basically everywhere else runs on ideas. If your app idea is good, it has potential. But the process of validating your app idea and bringing the app to life in the mobile app marketplace can be a difficult, time-consuming, and costly process.

Unfortunately, there’s no sure-fire way to determine whether the time and money you put into realizing your mobile app idea will be worth it in the end. Creating a mobile app is always a bit of a gamble.

However, successful mobile apps tend to share certain features in common. If you want to increase your chances of creating your own successful app in Canada, it could be a good idea to adopt those features with help from a Toronto mobile app development firm.

It helps to think of the features that successful mobile apps share as a template to follow when creating your own mobile app.

Here’s a look at three features that successful mobile apps tend to share.

1. A Simple User Interface

Mobile apps with messy or ugly user interfaces (UIs) don’t do well. They’re hard on the eyes, confusing to use, inefficient, and feel like a waste of time—especially in today’s world, where attention spans are short.

Suppose a mobile app’s UI is complicated and unpleasant on the eye. In that case, users in Canada very well might delete it within moments of downloading, then download a competing app to use instead.

In other words, even if your mobile app is truly excellent, without a simple UI that’s aesthetically pleasing, chances are it won’t do well.

2. An Intuitive Experience

Successful mobile apps are intuitive. They have a clear screen with clear leads.

They feel like an extension of the user, not an obstacle.

When people use successful apps, they often don’t even realize they’re using one.

In this way, the best mobile apps are like straws and headphones. When you’re drinking something with a straw, you typically forget about the straw entirely. The same is true when you’re listening to music through headphones.

In the first case, the straw is invisible: the drink itself is what you notice. In the second case, the headphones are also invisible: the music is what you experience.

You only notice the straw or the headphones when they stop working.

Successful mobile apps are similar. They’re mediums that work so well users don’t realize they’re using them.

3. Speed

That said, your mobile app can have a beautiful and straightforward UI and be intuitive, but if it’s not fast, users won’t like it.

Apps need to load quickly. It’s as simple as that.

To do so, they require a certain amount of data.

And when they do load, mobile apps need to have a loading screen—for example, dots that move from “.” to “..” to “…” and back again, or a percentage that increases from 0% to 100%.

Without a loading screen, users might think the app has frozen.

The Bottom Line

Successful mobile apps tend to share these three features in common (as well as other features.) If you design your mobile app with these three features in mind, it has a better chance of doing well in the competitive mobile app marketplace.

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