For those of you who don’t know that micro-interactions are most important and secret ingredient when it comes to develop a creative unique and additive app. This type of design movements keep the users engaged with its delight and unexpected ways that is invisible it almost feel like invisible. You have been come across with the micro-interactions more than hundreds time in a day.

Every time you stop the alarm, see any incoming text messages flashing the screen or you get interrupted in a game, skip the song or music player or might even change the traffic alerts in the morning. Every one of these little moments has the form of a micro-interaction and you don’t think about them in the first place the reason for their existence. But each one of them contributes its own way when you use any specific app every day.

What exactly are micro-interactions?

A micro-interaction is a single task based engagement in a device. Most of the time these engagements are very noticeable, Sometimes provides of a smooth flow.

As described they are highly recommended to help fulfill main three specific functions such as,

a) Quickly feedback or communicate status

b) Visualize the results of any action

c) Try to help the users manipulate something on-screen

The above slack is a great app that does all three functions at the same time. This app allows the users to communicate in a closed chat, attach any documents and tag each other. This app can provide the real time updates for marking messages and also helps the users to navigate around as well. It also provides you notifications and some small other actions to keep the users in sync about what is being communicated.

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Micro- interactions impacts its users and functions of the apps in so many ways such as,

1) Turning the things on and off

2) Communicating in any digital medium

3) Changing any settings and processing

4) Checking the message nonfictions

5) Sliding down the screen to refresh the content

6) Accomplishing the isolated tasks

7) Sharing or liking any photo or videos on websites

8) Connecting the devices such as, printing from the laptop or to get multi-player games

What micro-interactions really do?

As you can see the above list in every way micro-interaction serves multiple roles, but they speak less and create management. When you consider of how to design a micro-interaction try not to think any task or action in the hand but you should do it as the part for the whole user’s experience. They should make you do something or make you feel physically including,

Touching the screen

Learning and understanding

Connect to another

Smile with delighters

The four elements of micro-interactions:

The best way to create them is to understand the four-part structure of the micro-interactions like,

1) Trigger: click on an icon to get to your favorite page

2) Rules: the way the interactions behave many users cannot see the rules yet only understand the feedback. In this case add the heart icon on the page

3) Feedback: the way the design communicates with micro-interaction, the heart filled with color is bounced a message appears save to feed to inform you what has happened

4) Modes and loops: determine the length of the micro-interactions the way they repeats their selves, like they deliver the content from the favorite page and also remind us in the 6 months when we first liked it.

Are you considering the feedback?

Feedback is very necessary part of the micro-interactions. This is the main stage of them where how they connect with the user and interface. Feedback determines how a micro-interaction works. Without the initial feedback from the user, the sounds of the alarm will not stops until it doesn’t get reset. Its open cycle allows you to work over and over again.

Designing the details is the heart of the micro-interactions:

The way micro-interaction designed and the way you handle details. It will make or break it. Interactions should have a design element that simply can’t ignore them.

Micro-interactions should survive to repeat the use, if you want them to work for long term.

Simplicity is the main key, clear typography, vibrant colors and strutted designs with the fundamentals makes the details even more in need.

They must feel like human, texts should read and talk like people,

The design should be communicated with emotion forms.

All the copy should match the real moment and apply the right tone for texts that are very helpful as possible.

These are some of the real facts about micro-interactions. The entire entire key component for an app design is what people wanted to use, they help to develop and create engagement, contribute the functions and delight their users. Believe it or not your apps are the vital part of your daily live routines.