Terms of reference for a mobile application

Almost any modern online business, which seeks to be in trend, sooner or later thinks about developing a mobile application. After all, such an option gives a lot of competitive advantages, attracts customers, and diversifies the business.

But how to prepare technical specifications for application development? This may require narrow-profile knowledge and experience, so it is better to turn to professionals for the development of technical specifications.

Mobile application development is a complex and multifaceted task that requires the competence of many specialists. First, the UX specialist develops the interface and functionality of the application, and the designer develops its appearance. After that, programmers are connected to write code, direct development from scratch.

It is obvious that for these specialists it is vitally important to have a well-written technical specification for the development of a mobile application. This is due to the fact that each direction has its own principles and approaches, each specialist needs different initial data on the project.

The main principle of our company is adherence to the most advanced standards and deep immersion in the details of the project. We strive to understand the customer’s project so much that we can see the desired ending in the same way, think in one direction.

Therefore, we begin the technical specification of the mobile application with a detailed collection of information about the project. This usually takes place in the format of a brief meeting with the customer, which is attended by the project manager, account manager, and, if necessary, other narrow-profile specialists or consultants.

At the next stage, prototypes of all windows of the future application are drawn, the general logic of work is formed using flowcharts and transition diagrams. All this is demonstrated by mockups.

After design, a pivot table with a checklist of functionality is formed, video instructions for front-end and back-end developers are created.

At this and previous stages, the project manager always keeps in touch with our customer, if necessary, corrections and revisions are made to the TOR.

You can, of course, try to draw up a technical assignment for the development of the application yourself. But as practice shows, in order to implement a promising project, it is better to turn to professionals in their field. After all, not everyone knows the individual nuances and pitfalls that may arise; this requires many years of experience.

Our main advantage is just our vast experience in the development of technical specifications in the field of information technology. In our cases, a wide variety of mobile applications – from services of top companies to simple applications, including non-standard ones. With many years of experience, the company’s specialists have studied all the problems that may arise during development, how to work with them, and other points.

The second fact why it is worth contacting us is a scrupulous approach and elaboration of details. We achieve this with the help of the visual component of the technical task. The basis is mockups that will accurately demonstrate the external interface of the future application. A deeper level is the creation of diagrams of transitions through application windows.

Using specialized tools, our experts will model the user behavior in the application in detail.

How will this or that window open, where the buttons and lines, zones for tap and scroll are located. After that, the diagrams are poured into video format and shown to the customer.

This approach will show the model of a mobile application as close to reality as possible. Therefore, during the demonstrations, it will be possible to make edits and improvements here. In addition, application window navigation charts are a good tool for consultants from other industries, such as marketers or designers. You can always find new solutions to marketing and design problems based on the visual model.

Another advantage of our company is a staff of experienced programmers who have developed hundreds of mobile applications for a wide variety of industries. Therefore, solving complex non-standard tasks is not a problem for them.

So, by contacting us for a technical assignment for the development of an application, you will receive – an experienced team of professionals, modern standards in IT design, support and assistance at all stages of development, an effective working tool at the end.