Today’s workforce is mobile. While there are millions of desktop computers inside offices, almost everyone now expects to be productive while on the road, at home or even during meetings

As a result, many organizations now need their applications to run on phones and tablets as well as desktops and laptops. NCN has built easy-to-use applications that run on Apple devices, Android phones and tablets, and (of course) Microsoft Windows.

Many developers design mobile apps that look like they belong on a PC browser. This seldom works well because “tap and swoosh” apps require more design forethought than traditional “point and click” applications.

For example, for one client we recently built an app that allows people to check ahead for traffic and road congestion. To do this, the app needed to access multiple back-end databases.

The traditional approach would have been to start with the databases and build the app’s menus based on the structure of the data. This design methodology is why so many PC applications have exhaustive, complex drop-down menus.