App Design · Nashville Design the app before you build it.
Social Link is an app design agency in Nashville. We map the flows, design the screens and build clickable prototypes, so an app is tested and agreed before a line of code is written.
Example flowA sketch of the method, not client work
The flow first.
The cheapest place to fix an app is on paper. We draw every path before we draw a single screen.
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Flow map
Every path through the app, including the ones that go wrong: a forgotten password, a missing member, a dead end.
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Wireframes
Each screen in plain boxes, so the conversation is about what goes where, not colors.
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Prototype
Clickable screens on a real phone, good enough to test with the people who will use it.
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Interface
Type, color and components, drawn from your brand and built to scale.
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Handoff
Specs your developers, or ours, can build from without guessing.
What app design covers.
Design you can test, then hand to the people who build it.
- Product design
- What the app does for each kind of user, and what it leaves out.
- UX and flows
- The paths, the forms and the moments people get stuck.
- Visual design
- An interface that looks like your brand on every screen size.
- Prototypes
- Clickable, testable and shareable before development starts.
- Build
- When the design is agreed, our developers build it.
What is the difference between app design and app development?
Design decides what the app does and how it works for people, screen by screen. Development builds it. Designing first is cheaper: changes on paper cost minutes, changes in code cost weeks. See App Development.
What is a clickable prototype?
A set of designed screens linked together so you can tap through the app on a phone before it exists. It is how we test the idea with real users.
Can you design an app our own developers will build?
Yes. We hand over the flows, screens and specs your team needs, or our developers can build it.
How much does app design cost?
It depends on how many screens and user types the app has. We scope it with you.