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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Top Five Trends in Mobile App Design for 2015 |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Top Five Trends in Mobile App Design for 2015","summary" : "Mobile user habits are a moving target, and designers have to adjust accordingly. Review these top 5 trends in app design for 2015.","date" : "2015-02-17T11:10:27-04:00","date_modified" : "2024-04-02T09:45:13-04:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
        
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Creative Bloq offers their \u003ca href=\"http://www.creativebloq.com/app-design/top-5-trends-app-design-2015-11514018\"\u003eTop 5 Trends in App Design for 2015\u003c/a\u003e gathered from trends in changing hardware, increasing popularity of apps and the increasingly personal nature of mobile devices.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBigger Screen Sizes\u003c/strong\u003e. As we noted in \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/02/10/trends-on-tuesday-smartphone-growth-reaches-1-3-billion-in-2014/\"\u003elast week’s Trends on Tuesday post\u003c/a\u003e, the smartphone sales increase in 2014 was partially due to the growing numbers of “phablet-sized” smartphones. The growing percentage of larger screened smartphones is changing how people hold their phones, similar to tablets. As a result, there may be a merging of design for smartphone and tablet.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReturn to \u003ca href=\"http://www.techopedia.com/definition/28955/skeuomorphism\"\u003eSkeuomorphism\u003c/a\u003e?\u003c/strong\u003e Not quite—while the flat design styles of the past couple of years are not going away, they are being given some depth and movement to help provide context to users.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHidden Menus\u003c/strong\u003e. Screen sizes may be increasing, but real estate on a smartphone is still at a premium. Contextual menus that appear when you need them—“navigation drawers”—are the result of gestural conventions that are now common among smartphone users.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image image-right image-right-legacy\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/02/250-x-250-City-app-on-tablet-elenabs-iStock-Thinkstock-520917291.jpg\"\n    alt=\"City app on tablet\"/\u003e\u003cp\u003eelenabs/iStock/Thinkstock\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003col start=\"4\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eApps with a Personality\u003c/strong\u003e. Your smartphone is your almost constant companion—admit it, you get a real chuckle when Siri responds to one of your requests with a joke. This conversational style is everywhere, and many designers are including that in their apps.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncreased Connectivity\u003c/strong\u003e. Apps are becoming more connected with the increased use of GPS and Bluetooth. Add in the increased use of fitness bands and smartwatches, and your phone can gather all sorts of data about you. Apps can take advantage of all of this data to provide you with tailored suggestions for where to eat, what to do and what to buy. Designers will have more types of content and data to leverage when creating the user experience.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese five app design trends are important for federal agencies: Good design means good \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/01/12/15-government-customer-service-trends-for-2015/\" title=\"15 Government Customer Service Trends for 2015\"\u003ecustomer service\u003c/a\u003e and allows us to deliver \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/01/29/how-government-will-accelerate-anytime-anywhere-services-and-information-in-2015/\" title=\"How Government will Accelerate Anytime, Anywhere Services and Information in 2015\"\u003eanytime, anywhere services and information\u003c/a\u003e. It also helps prepare us for \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2014/10/31/whats-happening-with-the-internet-of-things/\" title=\"What’s Happening with the Internet of Things?\"\u003eInternet of Things\u003c/a\u003e implementations.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin us for Thursday’s \u003ca href=\"\n\"\u003eMobileGov Around the Horn Call\u003c/a\u003e to talk about ways to include these trends in your agency’s mobile strategy.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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