Imagine you’re driving your brand-new car and you’ve just hit the road, giddy with anticipation. However, you soon discover that you lack a map for the location to which you intend to travel.
In this case, where do you think you’ll end up?
To be precise, nowhere.
You will not only waste time and resources, but you will also never arrive at your target.
As a result, the discovery phase of mobile app development is perhaps the most crucial. You’re like that traveler who doesn’t have a map if you don’t have a discovery process.
Why We Need Discovery Process?
The discovery process is a road map for any project’s development: It might be a new mobile application, a new website, new software, or even a new structure. We must acquire important information during the discovery step in order to plan and design the project.
In this article, we’ll look at how we might start and trigger the discovery process for mobile app development for our mobile app development company.
Consider the following scenario to see why the discovery phase is critical for mobile app development: Assume you want to develop a mobile app to serve as a community platform for fishermen.
The entire mobile app development process becomes a gamble without the discovery phase, and we lose control over its success.
The Discovery Process is defined as
A discovery approach aims to uncover answers that will result in the best design, development, UX/UI, and overall mobile app development. These responses serve as the foundation for JPPTech’s understanding of the client’s needs, connecting them to market demands, and then developing a mobile app solution.
The following are the final responses that the Discovery Process yields:
Information that will serve as the foundation for the construction of a mobile app (for example user journeys, personas).
Information about how consumers can benefit from utilizing the mobile app (why should they use it?).
Set of mobile app features that define the app’s user interface and user experience (this will lead to a wire-frame of the new app).
What Is the Best Way to Begin the Discovery Process?
Although various mobile app development projects may have different Discovery Procedures (a fishing app will be different from a programmer’s app), there are a few core processes that all discovery processes have in common.
Research, Ideation, and Evaluation are the three fundamental processes in the discovery process.
Research
Developers and mobile app architects will be able to learn more about the app’s domain through exploratory research, which will help them make better decisions about the app’s overall development.
Surveys and questionnaires can be used to collect useful data and information about the topic, as well as to generate fresh app ideas. Competitive analysis can also be a significant component of the research process, as it will aid in gaining a better knowledge of the app’s goals and objectives.
The research phase can assist developers to learn why some individuals are passionate about fishing, what phrases they use for fishing, and the psychology of a typical user via user persona in the case of a mobile app for fishing enthusiasts.
Ideation
We will ideate the app development based on the facts acquired throughout the research phase, and this is due to one crucial feature of this stage: Pain Points.
We will endeavor to comprehend the user base’s pain points throughout the ideation stage of the discovery process and create ways to alleviate those pain points.
The basic core of mobile app development is built by figuring out how to solve the pain issues. We may focus on the pain areas with precision and specificity, and brainstorm ideas for all parts of mobile app development, including feature lists, user interfaces, user experiences, and product experiences.
For example, in the case of a fishing app, we can brainstorm pain concerns and then come up with solutions. Location, nice fishing sites, buying fishing equipment, learning how to fish, and creating connections with other fishing enthusiasts are some of their main pain issues.
Evaluation
We get at the final and final stage of the discovery process, evaluation, based on the ideation process and the ideas developed.
At this point, we have domain information, a typical user persona, and a set of features, user interface, and user experience ideas based on the pain areas.
All that remains is to connect the connections and assess the mobile app’s final structure.
A wire-frame for a new mobile app is usually the result of the evolution stage, which occurs following idea testing. Developers can use a wire-frame to develop the mobile app’s concept, then add navigational parameters based on the user’s expectations before evaluating the framework with the client and subject matter experts.
Allow them to evaluate the app’s features, navigation, and overall user experience through concept testing, and then proceed with the real design and development of the mobile app based on their feedback.
As a result, after the discovery process is over, the mobile app developers and designers are equipped with the necessary knowledge and inputs to begin the development process.
And this is a sure-fire way to go ahead.
Do you have any questions about the discovery process? Contact one of our mobile app consultants immediately to begin the process of releasing your app.