YappiX CMS — App Mobile Builder
YappiX CMS is a no-code platform for creating iOS and Android apps from a single CMS. As co-founder and head of design, I built the product vision, UX research, design system and multi-phase prototypes, and led the team through several investment and R&D stages.


Create Apps To Publish on the App Store and Google Play. Open-Source CMS For Agencies. It's Yours and Fully Customizable.
What is it? Does how it works?
Imagine, You are small entrepreneur, Founder of Cafe, who needs a ready-made solution builder for creating a mobile app for his Cafe, because to save time and money on mobile app development process up to 90%
Technology
A magical compilation system for that era. We made a real technological breakthrough in mobile technology, for which I received grants for R & D. The report is available on the GISNAUKA website

1 phase YappiX CMS v1.0
Before we started developing this product, we did a cust-dev. We used Siberian CMS as a research of interest. Installed on their VDS Platform Edition, then involved more than 2600 people in the test. All these people have created over 4000 apps and provided feedback. Then we started developing our own product and raised 2 rounds of investments.

Competitive Audit

Big & Close-up Pictures

2 phase YappiX CMS v1.5
In 2018, a State Grant was received from the Innovation Promotion Foundation for the research phase. Thanks to the ideate phase, I got 2 groups of persons – an agency and a small entrepreneur. The study included Competitive Audit. Thus, having data on Problem Statements, I was able to create Goal Statements. Between the ideate and Prototype phases, I create User-flow and User-Journey map. Then my team and I revisited a number of hypotheses as trends change rapidly and new technologies are added. In 2019, we drew Storyboard (Big Picture) and Storyboard (Close-Up). Smoothly move on to Paper wireframes and then in the same month I create a Low-fidelity wireframe. Based on all this, I got an information architecture. Mid 2019 and I started the High-fidelity prototype. At the moment I am working on a redesign because I did a number of tests based on the UX Research Study Plan. In 2021, the development of the core of the platform began. I want to note that the project is under NDA and I am showing you only a stripped-down version and a very old design.

UX stage (retrospective) – Problem

Goal statement

Users & Persons


User story

User Journey Map

User-flow base

User-flow and e-Commerce Map

Matrix structure

Full case study


Yappix CMS v2.0

Roadmap

Mockups








Tests and Usability Study 1
Test's Script

Note-taking table



YAPPIX CMS v3.0

Design System added

Mockups Hi-Fi






Tests and Usability Study 2




Results based on AI (2021) GPT-3
Ultimately, the final version with AI is used for closed use in many web studios around the world under White Label
What have I done and what have I achieved?
- CONDUCT USER INTERVIEWS
- PERSON CREATION
- CONDUCT COMPETITIVE AUDIT
- “HOW MIGHT WE” (HMW)
- DEFINE PROBLEM STATEMENT
- DEFINE GOAL STATEMENTS
- DETERMINE A VALUE PROPOSITION
- CREATING USER-FLOW & USER-JOURNEY MAP
- CREATING STORYBOARDS
- CREATING PAPER-WIREFRAMES
- LOW-FIDELITY WIREFRAMES
- HIGH-FIDELITY WIREFRAMES
- INFORMATION ARCHITECT
- PROTOTYPING
- TESTING & UX RESEARCH STUDY
- MOCKUP | VISUAL
- PRESENTATION & PITCH-DECKS
- DATA BASE ARCHITECT
Gap
So far, research has shown that the “no-code mobile apps-builder” business phase is ending, as the user realized that none of these platforms have powerful features to satisfy the entrepreneur. If you ask the end customer, he will answer that the application has poor functionality, and especially the limited ability to customize the UI. Apple has started a battle with commercialized templates. The question arose, what needs to be done so that the client again turns towards “no-code mobile apps-builder”. Our answer is below (Opportunities).
Opportunities
Over 5 years of research, we realized that all offers in this market are outdated and do not correspond to the trends and requirements of entrepreneurs. Technologies are dynamically changing in the mobile sphere; it is difficult to stay on one technology for more than 2 years. Therefore, we have compiled a list of solutions that will evolve and stay afloat for at least 6 years.
- AI-powered UI/UX analytics.
- Speaking content
- Voice recognition
- E-Commerce with complex and flexible logic to meet technical tasks no worse than Amazon, Aliexpress, and so on.
- Augmented Reality Editor
- Generation of chat bots with triggers.
- Page builder to customize UI up to 90%.
- Integration with payment services Apple Pay / Samsung Pay.
- Lightweight and simple user-flow for creating applications.
- No longer integrate hybrid mobile development technology, but switch to Telerik’s NativeScript Framework.
- Create a crowdfunding platform where everyone can invest in a project and earn money by selling their modules and features.
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