Mobile App Development Melbourne

The benefits of designing for usability
Human-centred design boils down to creating systems that match people’s needs in the intended context of use. The custom web platforms we develop are built around a sound understanding of both user and business requirements. Effective tech considers how people work, how they think, what they want (and why), their perceptions and how the introduction of technology may affect their day-to-day. A design-driven approach ensures our solutions are useful, usable, flexible and future-proof.

Most of our app work falls into a few shapes, and the right one depends on who uses it and where.

• Native iOS and Android.Built for performance and for people working away from a desk: field teams, clinicians, inspectors, members on the move. Native is the right call when the app leans on the camera, offline use, notifications or the device itself.
• Cross-platform apps.Where one codebase across iOS and Android suits the budget and the feature set, we build in React Native. The Yooralla Customer Stories app is React Native, presented as a native app and integrated with the Salesforce Force API.
• Web applications and progressive web apps.When the work happens in a browser, on any device, a web app or PWA reaches people without an app-store download. The same design rigour applies.
• Apps that integrate with the systems you already run.Most enterprise apps are only useful if they read and write the data that lives elsewhere, in Salesforce, a finance system or a custom database. We build the experience on top and connect it cleanly through APIs.

We are a design-led team, and that shapes the order we work in.

1. Research and definition.We start with the people who will use the app and the job it has to do, then map the flows and the data before any visual design begins. This is where an app is won or lost.
2. Design and prototyping.Information architecture, interface design and a working prototype we can test with real users, so the build starts from something proven rather than assumed.
3. Build.Native, cross-platform or web, built on mainstream, well-supported technology that is straightforward to host and maintain.
4. Integration.Connecting the app to your existing systems through clean APIs, so it works from the same records as everything else, with no second system to reconcile.
5. Launch and support.App-store submission, release, and the ongoing work to keep the app current as your organisation and the platforms it runs on change.