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Building mobile apps people actually keep using

Downloads are easy to celebrate. Retention is what matters. A few principles we apply to every web and mobile product.

Tenovate Team
Tenovate

Most apps lose the majority of their users within the first few weeks. The ones that survive share a few traits: they solve one problem very well, they're fast, and they respect people's time and data.

Principles we build by

  • Design for real conditions — slow networks, older phones, busy people.
  • Get users to their first success in under a minute.
  • Measure what people do, then remove what they don't need.
  • Treat performance and accessibility as features.
  • Ship small improvements often instead of big releases rarely.

Great products are rarely finished at launch. They get great through steady, evidence-driven iteration with the people who use them.