Author: Abhishek Nag

4 Mistakes in Making a Mockup

Once you know what you expect from your app and who your target audience is, what next? Well, you should have a rough idea regarding the look and feel of the same. Apart from this, you should be aware of its functionality. This is where a mockup comes handy.

What is a mockup in app development?

Mockup refers to a black and white outline of all the screens that you have visualized in your app. It comes with as many buttons and texts as possible to resemble your final app. It is best to get your mockups designed by professional partners so that chances of failing are best reduced. With a great mockup, you can get a better understanding of how your app will behave when working on a smart device.

With a mockup ready, you can check how your final app will present itself in a screen-to-screen layout. It will give you a chance to make necessary modifications before proceeding further. So, basically, if you want to critically evaluate your app idea, a mockup is the best for you. Besides this, mockups also give you an idea of how people in the real world are interacting with the app.

In today’s blog we will discuss in brief a few points about what are the common mistakes when it comes to mockup development.

Common mistakes in mockup development

While you are working on a mockup, you must ensure that there are no missing or broken screens and the flow is good. You must thoroughly check for any buttonless island screens and so on. Below we look at the most common mistakes that are easy for you to make when developing mockups.

#1 Missing out screens

This is a very common, frequent and obvious mistake. Why is it an issue? This is problematic since the very idea of a mockup is to represent every screen that is a part of your final app. So, if your screens are missing, it means the mockup is not complete in itself. This could cause serious rejections by users when they handle the final app. Can you just afford to skip the login confirmation page? Or the reset password suggestion? NO.

#2 Including buttons that are dead end

Your mockup should have everything that your final app design is expected to have. All the screens and buttons on your mockup should be connected logically. You must ensure that your mockup doesnt have buttons that do not lead anywhere. The same applies to the screens too. All screens must be interconnected so that the user can seamlessly navigate your app.

#3: Check for sticky screens

If your mockup has a button to reach a particular screen, it must also have a button to leave that screen too. It does not need to be a back button only and could rather be an extra button on all your screens.Again, while doing this, you need to ensure that your screen looks clutter-free and is not overcrowded.

#4 Missing out on page numbering

Having your mockup pages properly numbered is crucial to keep it organized. It also maintains good flow in the set and sticks to logic. While numbering the pages, you must make sure that they represent the user’s behavior while using the app. You should number the screens in the order users would view them. The very first screen is your page 1. While this could seem very easy, most people mess it up here. The complexity rises when you reach intersection screens. Here, the number of paths for a user are many. So, you will need to assign numbers semi-arbitrarily. In such scenarios, you ought to start with the screens that are very central to the app, with the most buttons leading to other screens.

If you are worried about your app development process or are confused what the right process is, please get in touch with us! Our team of app development engineers are well versed with the best practices and will transform your app ideas into fully-functional and usable apps.

May 23, 2022
Method of Solving Problems with Innovative Apps

Though our lives are full of various issues and difficulties, with the help of advanced and continuously evolving technology, we can try to solve those issues as easily as possible. Technology and the innovation and tech-savvy developers try their best to create apps and programs to give us an easy life. As now you depend a lot on our smartphones and other smart devices, we also prefer to rely on several apps for completing our numerous everyday tasks. As problem-solving skills are very crucial in a competent app developer, let us discuss how apps can help in solving problems or how developers can solve issues with their innovative ideas nowadays.

Custom Apps can solve every problem

If you are wondering how to solve different types of problems with a similar solution, then custom apps are the answer to your question. There are numerous industries that are investing in several new apps that can increase the speed of their tasks, reach out to their customers, improve the morale of the employees, and can help in many other ways. Many common people are trying to solve different types of issues with the help of custom apps and enjoying their lives.

An important responsibility of the app developers is to concentrate and find out several issues along with their solutions which may help them in satisfying their clients or users. As long as they have clear perspectives, focused minds, and even clear goals, there will be no issue, big or small, that cannot be solved with an effective app.

Why can problem-solving be perfectly done by apps?

There are many reasons why apps can make our lives much easier and more enjoyable. With the advent of technology and smart devices, now we have near about all the answers to our questions. Regardless of your task like whether you wish to need research materials for your project, or need to shop for something really fast, or find out a good restaurant, or need your medicines to be delivered to your doorsteps, all these can be easily done with the help of several apps within a few minutes. Apps offer accessible, easy and even fast solutions to almost all of our issues in daily life.

Many of those effective apps are designed and created while thinking about different issues in our daily lives and their solutions; thus, those apps can work as an ideal solution to the different types of problems in our lives. The job and responsibility of an app developer is to find out different issues. They need to find out with effective answers to solve those issues in the form of custom apps. This intention of resolving different types of issues with the proper focus can help us a lot in different ways.

Now, how can app developers improve their skills regarding how to solve issues with the help of custom apps? Then let us take a look at the ways.

Identifying the issue

To determine a solution that is effective and efficient, those developers need to research. They need to find out the actual issue correctly. While designing and developing for the purpose of problem-solving, those developers need to understand the issue completely. This includes finding out how the issue arises. It also means what is its origin, and what solution can be the most suitable one.

With a clear understanding of the actual cause of the issue, the chances of its repeating and the complications that may arise from its operation, an app developer can be more productive and efficient. Whether the issue is hidden within the timelines or a specific workplace issue, understanding the root cause of the problem is very crucial.

See other similar solutions

Though an app developer is trying to develop something unique, there will be other similar apps. These apps are trying their best to satisfy their users. Thus, it is better to know how those apps are performing and solve various similar issues. In this way, the developers can easily find out what things or qualities their apps need to work properly. Thus, you can approach from another angle and try to create an app that can satisfy its users.

There are ways to complete this step, such as:

Thinking something unique

Sometimes the existing solution cannot be enough to solve some new issues that may arise. So, sometimes it is a good idea to think something out of the box and try to solve the issue from a different angle. This approach will help developers to address similar issues from a completely new perspective.

Improving the existing solution

Another way is to try out different ways of making the existing app more efficient and effective. This is in order to meet the different expectations of the users.

Focus on the look of the solution

Once you identify and understand the issues you need to solve with your app, you focus on the best solution. In the entire process of app development, you need to communicate with your clients. This is to find out what best possible result can be derived from the app.

Testing several times

What after developing the app according to your expectations? You need to test it within different environments and even with various types of users.

Testing is a very important step in the entire process of app development. So, it is crucial to test the app several times. This ensures its proper functioning in different situations and with different users.

Therefore, in this way, you can easily create a perfect app to solve different issues in our everyday lives. If you are looking for any particular app design or solution, EOV is right here for you! Contact us now!

May 17, 2022
Use of Business Intelligence in Mobile App Development
Use of Business Intelligence in Mobile App Development

We have come across the term “Business Intelligence” quite a few times in the tech world. So, what exactly does it mean? Business intelligence refers to an integrated software platform which find use in business data analysis and management. Many businesses use the BI app development to seamlessly analyze their data without the need for any IT involvement.

It all starts with AI. Artificial intelligence has completely revolutionized the modern era. Smartphones, which are now indispensable in our lives, stand a testimony. Many businesses are seeking out collaboration with mobile app development companies to design devices and apps with AI/ML technology.

In today’s blog, we will have a brief look at what mobile intelligence is. We will also look at its pros and cons and role in app development.

Mobile Business Intelligence: What it is

Mobile Intelligence refers to the mobile devices’ power to learn and adapt while analyzing and understanding user behavior. Today, many mobile apps have analytics tools and business intelligence in order to provide smart information to the end-user.

In simple terms, business intelligence means all the technology, applications and programs that store, retrieve, and analyze data. By using this, firms successfully deliver relevant services to the customer at any point of time.

Now, let us look at a few advantages of mobile BI.

Advantages Of Mobile BI

The first and foremost benefit is that it gives firms access to their data anytime, anywhere. Here, we discuss a few more benefits in greater details.

Information Collection

By integrating Machine Learning with your mobile apps, you can get data on a real-time basis. This will allow you to carry out multiple operations more efficiently and in lesser time.

Decision Making

If you have information with you all the time, you can easily carry out analysis using the right tools. With the analyzed data outcomes, businesses can make more informed choices and take better decisions.

Stay Ahead of Competition

Using business intelligence in mobile apps, you can easily make your business more responsive and flexible. It helps you to create a unique identity for yourself by reaching out to your clients on a real-time basis.

Improved Productivity

With real-time data, decision making becomes quicker. This means you have more of time left for executions which results in enhanced productivity.

Enhanced Customer Satisfaction

The main goal of any business is to make their customers happy with their services or products. When your performance is excellent and you exhibit increased productivity, you reach your customers faster. It also opens up chances to serve them better.

Difficulties Faced in Mobile BI

There are a few hurdles that might crop up in your way of mobile BI. Say for example, people in rural areas with poor network connections may not be that accessible to you. Also, scalability is a challenge in mobile BI. As you get more and more data, it starts affecting your service.

Besides this, one needs high-performance and stable hardware to run these programs. Such hardware could raise your initial costs .

Some popular BI Tools

BI tools are apps that collect and interpret huge unstructured data from various sources like websites, mobile apps, videos, emails, etc. They are not that effective as business analytic tools, but they are very helpful in drawing insights. With these tools, you can also build reports, dashboards, etc. These tools may bring together multiple data analysis applications such as online analytical processing (OLAP), operational BI and enterprise reporting. They may also include open-source BI, mobile BI, ad hoc analysis, and querying real-time BI, collaborative BI, etc.

Some common tools include
- Google Analytics
- Trustpilot
- Databox
- G2 Crowd
- Zoho Analytics
Conclusion

With Business Intelligence, businesses of all sizes have gone truly global. Along the help of query building, analysis and data visualization, along with analytical report creation, many firms have reaped benefits of maximum return on their investments. With the right statistics, businesses are focused on developing apps that make them smarter, more efficient, productive, and have higher customer satisfaction.

EOV is dedicated to providing innovative mobile app development services to its clients from multiple domains. If you are looking for the right partner to build the app that your business truly deserves, get in touch with us now!
May 9, 2022
EOV attends DMEA 2022; Healthcare Tech Looks Promising, says CEO

Berlin, 2nd May, 2022: EOV Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. was at DMEA which took place in Berlin from 26th to 28th April, 2022. There were more than 11,000 trade visitors and 600 exhibitors present from more than 27 countries. The DMEA is a leading event for promoting the digitization of healthcare industry. EOV is proud to be a part of such a magnanimous platform where it got a chance to showcase its valued contribution in the field of healthcare technology. Not only this, but EOV was glad to learn more about latest developments and products in the health-tech segment.

Mr. Abhishek Nag, CEO and Co-Founder of EOV opines, “We had a great time at the DMEA 2022 where we got an open opportunity to learn, train and network with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry from all over the world. With experts from politics, self-government, science and business – all under one roof, it was an exhilarating experience and we are returning with a lot of valuable insights from here”. He further added “The future of healthcare industry will transform beyond imagination. The future will be data driven. Telehealth will take the centerstage of the modern healthcare ecosystem, especially for companies focused on the same in developing nations where a large part of the population has still no access to healthcare. Confluence of EHR, HIS along with data health on mobile will revolutionize the digital health ecosystems. ”

About EOV Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

EOV Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a leading services and solutions designer firm that is steering towards excellence by their sheer craftsmanship and dedication. EOV has been successfully creating a brand name in healthcare technology where they provide innovative solutions and products to address various challenges faced by institutions and professionals fro the industry

May 2, 2022
What Snowpark means for the data community

Snowflake took the world by storm when it brought in its horizontal-scaling warehouse and all-things-in-SQL approach. It helped free up data engineers from the tedious infra management and machine tweaking duties and enabled them to focus on core data
modelling and exploration activities. Snowflake also helps in abstracting the layers of data-partitioning, data-governance and data accessibility that further focusses the efforts towards data-driven initiatives minus a lot of the hassle. However, Snowpark takes things “back” to the code-heavy world and in many interesting ways.

Snowpark allows developers to bring their own code, in their preferred programming languages to execute on Snowflake’s virtual machines. It is as powerful as it sounds. But why was this needed? It was since the classic big data world has some advantages especially when data is applied to use-cases like machine learning. It also was needed because the testability of languages like Java, Python, Scala is higher than SQL, with ready unit-testing frameworks and established testing practices. That said, Snowflake also has several advantages like ease of management and less hassle. Snowpark is the promise of the best \from both worlds.

The following are some considerations to be aware of when evaluating Snowpark.

Supporting initiatives like machine learning

It turns out that many advanced statistical modelling techniques and calculations needed for machine learning and artificial intelligence are better built in Python or Scala. Snowflake uses SQL or JavaScript for nearly everything and while SQL is much closer to business than Java or Python, the latter certain bring more firepower to the data game. Snowpark allows you to bring the power of those languages to your Snowflake world.

Less overheads and management worries

It is still Snowflake after all. Hence, the problem of loading different tools and waiting for some time for all booting to happen isn’t there. Snowflake is ready with all the packages needed to get up and running with your choice of stack. Snowpark also takes care of aspects like garbage collection and portioning as usual, so that while your code brings in your favorite features, you don’t need to engage in the maintenance activities. This can be a concern to some as a few data engineers do want the levers for their own control.

Ease of scaling and performance

Snowflake offers its out-of-the-box scaling features in Snowpark. So your data-models can easily scale to meet new users’ demands or more concurrent requests. It also means that your computations get the desired compute to run, in the classic serverless manner.

Security and compliance

Snowflake and hence, Snowpark bring in their abilities to manage and govern the data and put in access restrictions (even at a column level) where need be. This means that you wouldn’t need to tinker with tools like Ranger if you are bringing in your favorite Python code.

Better managed pipelines and workflows

All this also means that there is a more familiar and testable management of CI/CD. It also means better unit testing overall and closer to the classic big data world.

Single standardized way of accessing the data

Snowpark allows you to bring in different programming languages, but the idea is still to use Snowflake’s data warehouse. This has an advantage of having standardized ways to access the data and this can also mean that you spend some time in migrating your data from other databases like Presto DB to Snowflake. This is the “effort cost” of using the Snowflake-Snowpark architecture.

Conclusion

Snowpark is here to stay. It will be interesting to see, the kind of adoption it has in the data community. Also we will watch out for the support it gets from Snowflake. With its promise of bring any language and yet harness the power of Snowflake, it can be a good bet for a data
engineering team.

If you are looking for help with Snowflake or Snowpark and be serverless, you can connect with our team now. With extensive skill and experience, we will help you in achieving your technology goals in time.

May 2, 2022
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and Healthcare
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a subdivision of the Internet of Things (IoT). Like the Internet of Things, this technology is made up of interconnected devices and applications over the internet that solely serves the Healthcare Industry. The Internet of Medical Things connects the patients, the doctors, other medical professionals and medical devices – including hospital equipment, diagnostic devices, and wearable gears – by transmitting data over secured networks.

Popularly called the Healthcare IoT, the Internet of Medical Things, much like the Internet of Things, make extensive use of automation, machine-based intelligence and sensor-based intelligence; with the objective to reduce reliance on human involvement during routine health monitoring process or standard medical procedures.

How does the Internet of Medical Things benefit us?

The Internet of Medical Things, just like the Internet of Things, holds many benefits specifically for the patients and the healthcare professionals.

Remote Medical Services:

The basics of the Internet of Medical Things are to be able to collect or capture medical data anywhere and anytime. IoMT devices can capture real-time information about a patient’s health and transmit them over a secured network to the Doctor.

This can happen without the patient needing to visit the Doctor’s office. Such things benefit the most patients who are unable to move. Also, in a situation where the Doctor’s office is in a different city, the Internet of Medical Things is a great tool.

Personalized and precision diagnoses:

Many of the IoMT devices are used to track the patient’s vital signs in real-time. They make a detailed and in-depth observation of the patient’s vital signs to an impossible level during the short visit to the Doctor’s office. The Internet of Medical Things also curates the collected information, allowing the Doctor to make more informed decisions on the patient’s health. This enables the Doctor to create a more personalized and effective treatment plan for the patient.

Empowerment to the Patients:

With the IoMT wearable gears, patients can also have real-time updated information about their vitals. Otherwise, they could have only obtained by visiting a doctor’s office. The real-time information enables the patient to adjust their lifestyle as per health conditions.

Like the patients, the Healthcare providers also benefit from the Internet of Medical Things.

Improved Patient Monitoring:

Constant round-the-clock monitoring of their health is essential for chronically or seriously ill patients. With the IoMT devices, Doctors and other Medical Professionals can keep track of the patient’s health condition remotely without being physically present.

Improved Operations:

The Internet of Medical Things improves Hospital operations by giving the administrators a more accessible and centralized control over the devices and equipment in their facilities. The IoMT devices provide them with more visibility into their facilities’ current medical service environment. The Internet of Medical Things creates the opportunity for hospitals to involve doctors through robotic surgical aids.

Control over the Costs:

IoMT technologies, such as remote patient monitoring, enable Hospitals to keep tabs on their human resource involvement, which is subsequently helping them in keep control of their costs.

Some Popular IoMT devices:

The advantage of the Internet of Medical Things has made way for several different devices in the market. Following are some of the most popular devices among them:
- Medical-grade wearable– Regulated and clinical level devices or products made use of under the supervision of a medical specialist. These devices are designed to improve physical performance, manage pain, take care of all health issues and resolve them.
- (PERS) Personal emergency response systems-Wearable devices give scope to patients or the elderly to quickly ask for help from health care providers during an emergency.
- (RPM) Remote patient monitoring devices– Systems and devices that help manage various types of chronic diseases. These devices are placed in the homes of those patients who are undergoing a long term treatment process.
- Point-of-care kiosks and devices– Several mobile devices ranging from blood glucose meters to ultrasound machines help get health data and diagnostic information. This process is carried out whether they are in the field or in the Doctor’s chamber. The entire process is easily possible without the presence of a full laboratory.
- In-clinic monitors– Just like the point-of-care devices; they can also be managed without the need of a full laboratory by a care provider on-site.
- Smart pills-A new category that is gradually coming up is a segment of devices that can be swallowed by the patients and transmit data wirelessly bout the internal organs of a patient to the health professionals.
Conclusion

IoMT is the predicted future. The various technologies of IoMT are already in being. They are making a distinct difference for millions, allowing them to have a better control over their health conditions. And, improve communication with care providers. IoMT also allows the medical professionals and physicians to make faster and better diagnoses without the patient present in person. Finally, the financial savings of IoMT is increasing gradually.
April 18, 2022