My favorite part of building any app is towards the end, where you have to think of the small details you’ve missed and the very minor improvements you could make to make the app better for the user. To me, polishing is everything. When Ryan Abbott approached me with the idea of Pockeshots, we both knew it would be a spectacular app to make. The concept of the app was done in 72 hours. The end result? Not pretty. After working on the minor details however, the end result came out to be truly exceptional.

Design aside, the concept version of Pocketshots didn’t have any sounds, camera flash, settings or Facebook integration. We knew we had to improve the app just a little in order to make it something users would want to buy and use. There’s still a lot more coming, but for a v1, it’s off to an extremely good start.

When making your next app (or just app update), ask yourself if there any minor details you should improve on. Most little improvements only take minutes to implement and can greatly improve the overall user experience.

Interested in seeing the progression of Pockeshots? Here are a couple of pictures.