iPhone Apps Blog

Let me show you these two desktop applications. For what reason? Because it is useful not only for development of iPhone application, but can be used for work out websites, marketing plans, projects or draft to brainstorming.

In the last 8-9 years, Profartis worked with a huge number of developers, all had one thing in common: they never planned their work in advance. This is a big gap, they wasted time (3 months), because there was one function or item not planned into the program, that would have been very important.

Nowadays its only worth to start a new iPhone development, if you know the functions, you work out the structure, and ideas on a piece of paper. Practically you can plan and optimize your duties in advance, for example: the graphic is not ready yet, but you can prepare the draft of the program. But the most important is  that this way you can save up to 40-50% of the real work (design planning, program, marketing), all the functions and ideas are known already.

I’m pleased to suggest two programs to you: Xmind is a free (of charge) application, Mindjet is a cost related solution, but both are independent from platform, you can download them through Linux, Macintosh (Mindjet is perfect to Mindjet collab work). We use them on a daily basis. You can see the above picture with the plan and idea of our previous pmg PassCode password and personal info manager application.

Detailed plan could be useful to:

• webdesigners
• project and layout planners
• online and offline marketing experts (a proper marketing campaign can be planned)
• sales field
• iPhone and other mobile application planners
• strategy planners
• HR field (HR future and vision plan)
• proper business plan of an enterprise

By the way there is a mindmap to iPhone too, I use SimpleMind, its windows live is just available, if I have a good idea or conception to a new program or website, I have to prepare only the draft, and the rest comes later.