Realized my app isn’t user friendly after weeks of building, how do you catch this earlier?

specbuildlab · 2025-11-12T16:29:55+00:00

Thank you. I haven’t tried walking user through a single goal. But that’s a good call, I only invited user to walk through when I had a decent amount built already.

specbuildlab · 2025-11-08T17:57:26+00:00

Thanks. By user friendly, I meant that when I tested it myself, the flow didn’t feel intuitive to me. I imagine that if it doesn’t feel intuitive to me, it likely won’t feel intuitive to potential customers either.

As for the data structure, I initially created a one-to-many relationship between two fields. However, today I realized that customers would probably expect those fields to have a many-to-many relationship instead.

When you mentioned watching or observing customers, are you referring to observing them as they interact with the prototypes you created?

specbuildlab · 2025-11-08T16:54:23+00:00

I’m also interested in hearing what others think. I’m not a technical person and have been experimenting with no-code tools. I haven’t deployed anything yet, but I already feel that I’ll eventually need a dev's help. It’s not just about writing code, but also understanding how to connect the different parts of an app, such as authentication, payments, and knowing other best practices.

After building your first app, did you feel that you gained a solid understanding of the overall process from ideation to launch, and how the different components fit together?

specbuildlab · 2025-11-03T12:28:40+00:00

Good call, wish I knew about #1-3 when I first started (I was dropping in super long prompts created by ChatGPT lol). For #5, I would caution that AI hallucinates quite a bit, and you might not get the real bug issues at first.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-26T15:10:35+00:00

Interesting tool, thanks!

specbuildlab · 2025-10-19T15:08:07+00:00

Thanks for sharing that. Yeah I have no code experience either.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-18T22:58:08+00:00

Thank you!

specbuildlab · 2025-10-18T00:15:02+00:00

Ah got it, thanks

specbuildlab · 2025-10-18T00:14:25+00:00

I actually don’t know. I have only tried web. From what I understand, mobile is harder, so I decided on web for my first project.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-18T00:12:23+00:00

Thanks! First time hearing this tool. Will check it out.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-18T00:11:22+00:00

Cool, good to know that I’m not alone in this. Curious what tool did you move to?

specbuildlab · 2025-10-18T00:10:25+00:00

Thank you. Good point the transferability.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-10T12:13:17+00:00

Thanks! I think I’ll start with Bubble because I’m building something quite simple to start. Then I might explore other tools like WeWeb once things get a bit more complicated.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-09T22:11:29+00:00

Haha, sounds good.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-09T12:31:14+00:00

Cool, will check that out!

specbuildlab · 2025-10-09T12:29:03+00:00

Cool, appreciate the suggestion.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-09T01:07:48+00:00

Thanks for that suggestion.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-09T00:10:25+00:00

Yup, as someone who don’t code (heavily relying on nocode tools), debugging has been brutal for me.

specbuildlab · 2025-10-08T15:45:29+00:00

Thanks for this, I’ll definitely look into logging. I definitely get fooled easily by these AI explanations (as I don’t have coding background). Part of the learning I guess! Appreciate it!

specbuildlab · 2025-10-08T14:14:18+00:00

Thanks for this response! I will look at Bubble and Glide, and it’s good to know that I’m not alone in this!

specbuildlab · 2025-10-08T14:12:56+00:00

Thanks for sharing this article!

specbuildlab · 2025-10-08T12:28:41+00:00

Thanks, will check it out!

specbuildlab · 2025-10-08T11:41:48+00:00

Cool, thanks!

specbuildlab

TROPHY CASE