Motion UI - Emerging trend in the web application

A user will quickly lose his interest in your web application (app) if it not appealing or interactive. If it is just a dumb static web application, then user will quickly switch to another app of your competitor. User nowadays are not only focusing on the content of the app but also on how the app will quickly give results in minimal time and meet his expectations. Developers need to bring their app to “life”, increase movement, and overall create a ‘living’ site which reacts and changes according to each individual user.

Motion UI is a front-end framework used for building such fully responsive web designed apps. No longer are web applications two dimensional with boring experience. The Motion UI includes predefined motions that are easily accessible and can be put to use for any project. With 36% (or 2382 votes) it is stated by Forbes users that this will be the most important web development trend for you in 2017.

Motion UI is a SaaS library (Software as Service) provided by ZURB. It is widely used for quickly creating animations and CSS transitions. With Motion UI, it is less complicated to make an app’s transitions look smooth and rich with predefined motions. Motion UI has more than two dozen animation classes and built-in transition that make prototyping easy.  It is also possible to preview the effects with the help of library, when you navigate to a production environment. 

Latest Version:

The newest version of Motion UI works through flexible CSS patterns with all kinds of JavaScript libraries and enables seamless integration of animations into websites. The way prototypical animated elements integrate seamlessly into websites would definitely makes Motion UI one of the most preferred libraries by developers.

Elements of Motion UI

Animations:

• Animations are great way of telling a story and it is much simplified further by motion UI
• Animations and transitions allow designers to visualize change and differentiate content.
• Animations and transitions are moving effects that help users recognize when something changes on the site, for example they click on a button and a new piece of information appears on the screen.
• Adding movement to apps and websites improves user experience, as it allows users to make sense of content in a more intuitive way.
• Animations work great for loading spinners, creating eye-catching CTAs and for error states.
• The Motion UI includes CSS Animations for displaying content along with subtle effects and movement.
• Motion UI also powers some components of the Foundation framework, such as the Orbit slider, the Toggler switcher, and the Reveal modal, so it’s a pretty robust tool.

Physicality:

• Motion UI unable us to guide user throughout the website on how to operate things and move through website.
• Objects feels like they have actual physical mass and respond in ways that the human mind anticipates.
• They contract or stretch when moved. There is a level of realism so that users can relate.
•  In actual sense, it puts life into your website and so a sense of positive emotional response from user is generated.

Responsive:

• A Motion UI design is intuitive and responsive.
• This is because every reaction of the motion UI should be comprehensible and complementary to the user action.
• Don't forget that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, as Newton's Third Law of Physics tells us and that holds true for motion UI design.

Focusing merely on the latest design frameworks and techniques are not just the only things for building a great app. A good design should be governed primarily by the element of simplicity for a cleaner approach and better functionality. Using Motion UI wisely is a key to attract wide range of users to your site and keep them engaged on your site. 

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Mr Aditya Bhogale is budding IT professional with interests in the field of Web applications. He is regular follower of the recent trends in this domain and through his blogs ensures that he highlights the same to the world. He can be contacted further on aditya.b@getitrevamp.com

Cloud based enterprise application - Advantages and future

Running a successful business? If Yes, then i am sure you are ready to complain about the painstaking manual business process and operations. The automation of these process can be done through Enterprise applications.

These enterprise application can be stand alone applications in your environment or rested on cloud n which can be accessed anywhere as per requirement. These Enterprise applications can range from Online shopping, Billing, Security, Planning, Business Intelligence, HR Management, Enterprise Resource planning (ERP), IT service management, Business process Management, content switching Module and many more that you can think of.

To understand the term Cloud based enterprise application, lets divide it into two fragments:

 Cloud based:

• It is a term that refers to applications, services or resources made available to users on demand 
• via the Internet from a cloud computing provider’s server 
• So, in our case a cloud application, or cloud app, is basically a software program where cloud-based and local components work together and relies on remote servers for processing logic that is accessed through a web browser with a continual internet connection.

 Enterprise Application (EA):

• An Enterprise is a word that is referred to huge business company or organization 
• An Enterprise application (EA) is a large software system platform designed to operate in a corporate environment such as business, organization and government. EAs are developed using enterprise architecture. 
• EAs are complex, scalable, component-based, distributed and mission critical.. 
• Why do we need EA?-- EA software is a critical component of any computer-based information system. 
• EA software ultimately enhances efficiency and productivity through business level support functionality. 
• So, basically making your Enterprise application software cloud-based would be termed as cloud based enterprise mobile application. 

  

Advantages:

Flexibility:

Cloud-based services are ideal for businesses with growing or fluctuating bandwidth demands. If your needs increase it’s easy to scale up or down your cloud capacity, drawing on the service’s remote servers.

     Portability:
    Where in the past, people would run applications or programs from software downloaded on a physical computer or server in their building, but now cloud computing allows people access to the same kinds of applications through the internet. In short, cloud is fast becoming the new normal. By the end of 2018 it’s estimated that 90% of UK businesses will be using at least one cloud based enterprise application.

           

     Disaster recovery and Backup:
Cloud- Based application has a backup and recovery option as the data is spread over internet and remote server as the least damage thus saving time, money and loss.

Increased collaboration:
When your teams can access, edit and share documents anytime,and also conduct remote conferences/meetings from anywhere, they’re able to do more together, and do it much better in real time.

Work from anywhere:
With cloud computing, if you’ve got an internet connection you can be at work. So, providing work from Home jobs or Interns won't be troublesome.

Transparency :
When you make the move to cloud computing, all files are stored centrally and everyone sees one version of the truth. Greater visibility means improved collaboration.

Security:
Lost laptops are a billion dollar business problem as all projects ,sensitive data may lose. Because your data is stored in the cloud, you can access it no matter what happens to your machine. And you can even remotely wipe data from lost laptops so it doesn’t get into the wrong hands.

Competitiveness:
Moving to the cloud gives access to enterprise-class technology, for everyone. It also allows smaller businesses to act faster than big, established competitors.

Future:

The above advantages thus specify why in recent years , more and more companies are adapting to cloud based Enterprise application for their Businesses . Still these are predictions of Cloud based enterprise application based on survey conducted by IDC(Business Consultant) and Gartner(Research company):

More application availability on the cloud 

With most new enterprise software being built for cloud from the outset, it is predicted that by 2018 over a quarter of all applications (around 48 million) will be available on the cloud.

Increased growth in the market for cloud: 

Based on their forecast for 2011-2017, Gartner expects adoption to hit $250 billion by 2018. Also, Gartner also suggested that the worldwide EA software as a service (SaaS) market would grow at an astounding yearly growth rate of 20.2 percent This means it will be growing from $18.2 billion in 2012 to $45.6 billion in 2017.

Increased development for the cloud-based EA software : 

More development is going to go to the cloud-based Technologies.IDC concurs with Gartner regarding the growth of these IT services and suggests that 20 percent of all application revenue in 2014 will be generated by SaaS(Software as a Service). 

More Innovations in Enterprise applications because of Cloud: 

Increased competition in the cloud space will give way to better products, services and innovations in Enterprise applications.

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Mr Aditya Bhogale is budding IT professional with interests in the field of  Web applications. He is regular follower of the recent trends in this domain and through his blogs ensures that he highlights the same to the world. He can be contacted further on aditya.b@getitrevamp.com

Mobile app VS Responsive Web Design

What electronic device you are using for accessing the web? Smartphones, laptops, tablets….

The device which are more handy have the most impact on our lives which bring the idea Smartphones to our mind. We are living in the era where smartphones are more than people. So which is the most easiest and convenient  way for accessing the information on internet? Here rises the debut “Mobile app or Responsive web Design”.

Responsive Web Design – Extremely Flexible!

Today, the handy electronic devices like smartphones, tablets, smart watch are getting popular, created the urgency for development of the responsive web design. Responsive web design can scale to the size of browser. Some of the factors, like touch vs click  makes the interaction with web differently.

       Why Responsive Web Design?

Today, we are using the variety of devices like smartphones, laptop, tablets etc of numerous sizes. A website could be accessed from any of the devices, so it should responsive to the size of device. It has lots of benefits, here are some:

User Experience

First Impression is the Last Impression. In today's world web site the first way of broadcasting the information on business. User satisfaction is the ultimate goal of any business. Increase in the users of smartphone, is urgent call for designing the responsive web site. It gives familiar look to user regardless of the device through which user is accessing.

Business View

From the business point of view Responsive Web Design is more profitable as it better to maintain one site rather than having two or more.

Mobile App

Some Application, which is downloaded from internet and installed on mobile and keep it for regular use is Mobile App. ?? Lets just consider some giant companies like amazon, Flipkart, Facebook, Whatsapp, gmail, are targeting the mobile app as their business priorities. Why Mobile App has become one of the most important aspect for enhancing any business

While using the mobile app you will quickly experience how different it feels using mobile app instead of the web sites. Mobile apps are lighter, it takes less time for loading and of course nobody likes to wait.  Moreover, some of the facilities and tools like GPS, notifications, better design, easy to access, and so on are dedicated to only mobile users.

Besides all this, there comes a big question i.e. security. What do you use to shop online? Or what do use for online money transactions? Mobile app that is what the max people will answer. It provides a type of security in-order save our personal and financial data (like account details).

From business point of view it is quite high budget, since there are many mobile operating systems. So if Mobile App is opted, it needs to developed separately for different operating system which is more costly.

Mobile App or Responsive Web Design

What do I need for my business “Mobile App or Responsive Web Design”? 

Logically speaking, it depends, what is your business? Which consumer you are targeting? what is your budget? If you are targeting market or If it’s a e-biz company responsive web site is good option. As it low cost and targeting audience won’t opted for the mobile app for such business purpose. 

But the story is different for the B2C business or commercial business like online shop or if your goal is rich consumer experience Mobile App is opted. You can analyses with some web analytics services like Google Analytics, if you have a website.

Now-a-days many organization have both Mobile App as well as Responsive Websites. Having both is always a best choice.


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Mr Abhishek Borikar is budding Mobile application Developer with      

keen interest in trends and developments in this field.

He regularly shares the same with blogs, white papers and case studies.

He can be contacted on abhishek.b@getitrevamp.com