How do you build an app? Pt 1. (Design)

Sarah Smith
10 min readAug 25, 2020
Looking over the shoulder of a woman as she programs an app on an iPad using a desktop Mac computer.
“How to build an app” Sarah Smith coding an iOS app © Smithsoft 2016.

What is involved in building an app? Who do you need to talk to you when you’re building it? Can I build my own app? Can I outsource building my app to developers overseas?

If you’re asking those questions you’re in the right place.

This post builds on my previous one What kind of apps are there?. If you haven’t read that now is a good time to check back there, just in case some of the concepts from there that I refer to in this post don’t make sense.

This is the second post in my series on for folks new to app development. Check that introduction for context to the whole series on “How to Build an App”, and links to the other articles.

Its a long post! So I’ve broken it into two parts.

That way after you’ve read this first part about the design side of the app building process; you can make some notes, and get a breath of fresh air. And then you’ll be ready for the rest of the story in part 2, which covers the technical side of the app building process.

Getting Started as an App-preneur

In this post I’ll be digging deep into that core question of how to get started building your own app. We will discover who are the specialist people that work on building apps.

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Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith

Written by Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith is a writer & app developer .

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