We developed a worksheet with a series of planning questions to get you started with conceiving and creating niche mobile products that are right for your audience.
Consider sitting down with a few creative collaborators from across your organization to tackle these questions together.
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- The best strategies for creating specialized mobile apps
- Draw upon your community’s passions to design niche mobile products
- Draw upon your staff’s passions to create niche mobile products
- Adopt a user-centered design process to plan your niche mobile app
- Unleash your hacker culture to get an app built
- Make room for ‘beta’ app experiments to grow
- Obstacles you will face in creating niche mobile apps
- Strategy worksheet: Your niche mobile app plan
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