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Mobomo, LLC Ranks #123 on Inc. Magazine’s List of the Mid-Atlantic Region’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Regionals Mid-Atlantic list had an average growth rate of 161% percent. 

Vienna, VA, March 15, 2022  Inc. magazine revealed today that Mobomo, LLC is No. 123 on its third annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: Mid-Atlantic list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies based in Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Born out of the annual Inc. 5000 franchise, this regional list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the Mid-Atlantic region economy’s most dynamic segment – its independent small businesses. 

The companies on this list show a remarkable rate of growth across all industries in the Mid-   Atlantic region. Between 2018 and 2020, these 131 private companies had an average growth rate of 161% percent and, in 2020 alone, they added 7,365 jobs and $1.9 billion to the Mid-Atlantic region’s economy. Companies based in the Richmond and Washington, D.C., areas had the highest growth rate overall.    

Complete results of the Inc. 5000 Regionals: Mid-Atlantic, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, metro area, and other criteria, can be found at inc.com/mid-atlantic starting March 15, 2022.

“This year’s Inc. 5000 Regional winners represent one of the most exceptional and exciting lists of America’s off-the-charts growth companies. They’re disrupters and job creators, and all delivered an outsize impact on the economy. Remember their names and follow their lead. These are the companies you’ll be hearing about for years to come,” says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc.

Mobomo — a private company headquartered in the D.C. metro area — is a premier provider of web and mobile development services to commercial businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. We combine technology expertise with disciplines in digital strategy, interactive marketing, and branding to create innovative applications and websites. From private sector companies to government agencies, we have amassed deep expertise helping our clients enhance and expand their existing web and mobile suite.

Interested in learning more about Mobomo? Take a tour of our capabilities, our past performance, the team members who make our clients look so fantastic, and feel free to reach out with any questions you might have

More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000 Regionals

Methodology

The 2022 Inc. 5000 Regional are ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2018 and 2020. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2019. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2020 is $1 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. 

About Inc. Media 

The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent.

The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com

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Mobomo's UI Kit

This freebie is designed to provide inspiration for your projects while guiding smart interactions: Simple and striking. Our process has been designed to turn your ideas into awesome products! 

The package is made up of editable elements so that it can be easily manipulated with smart objects. Replacing the contents of a Smart Object is very simple. All you need to do is to double-click on the thumbnail of the layer and edit the source file, especially useful to apply your branding and styles across the screens.

You can add your own content in a few simple steps:

The package contains

  • 5 Screens that cover the flow of login for any app.
  • Canvas Size 320 x 560 for iPhone
  • Canvas Size 768X1024 for IPad
  • Changeable background
  • Changeable colors
  • Drag and drop to create own composition

Splash screen

A splash screen is a graphical control element consisting of a window containing an image. It is used while the app is being launched.

Walkthrough

Screen revealing functionality to a user, changeable background and content

Login, Sign Up and Forget Password screens

Corresponding to to help you get started quickly design and build login flows.

Fonts

Montserrat

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat

Format: PSD file

Size: 1.5 MB

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Wireframes

UX and UI are distinct parts of the design process, but they are so closely intertwined that one couldn’t possible exist without the other. Let’s start by defining the two so that we don’t get confused.

“User Experience” is a very broad term, but for the purpose of this discussion, let's define it simply as the engagement between the product and it’s user.  UX in the digital realm is constantly evolving as the user base expands and as technological advancements allow user engagements to become incredibly efficient.  Think of a simple question to lookup:  “When will the next president be elected?”  Not so very long ago, you would search for a website related to politics, and then you would dig through page after page, desperately looking for the answer.  Today, google will give you the answer immediately, and very efficiently, thus providing an amazing “user experience.”  It seems simple, but from a design perspective, maximizing UX is still an incredibly challenging process.  The success of your applications UX is ultimately dependent upon the purpose of the user, and when you have to accommodate a variety of purposes from a variety of users, it can be very difficult to create a slick UX.

Once the User Experience has been determined, then the “User Interface” or UI comes into play.  Lets use an example to understand UI: we are creating a website for a Pizza restaurant.  We want users to come to our website, see our menu and order a pizza.  A clear goal has already been established by the projected UX: we want you to order pizza.  The specific layout of the webpages will be the User’s interface.  In other words, the UI is the medium for ordering pizza, while the UX is how happy you are while using that medium.  Determining an efficient layout for our website is not an easy task; how do we get the user from the home page to successfully clicking the “place pizza order” button?

There are infinitely many control and style choices.  Early design documents are often so laden with features that their websites’ production could take years to complete.  This can happen if you bury yourself in the user interface.  Like the Yin and Yang, an oreo cookie, or whatever metaphor you choose, such is the natural relationship between UI and UX: the best UI design will occur when you are consistently mindful of the UX, that is, mindful of how the user will experience your site.

There are  few essential rules that go into the creation of intuitive applications.  UI designers are responsible for creating a cohesive style guide; they should maintain a consistent design language throughout the product. The pages of your product must communicate clearly with the projected designs of the UX.

Now that we have established the basics, what are the top UX/UI tools being used in the dev industry?

For a pre-test fee, UserTesting is a stress and hassle free tool. It can be utilized for user research and prototype testing.  Testing experts can recruit the target audience for your application, remotely administer user tests, and deliver the results within an hour.  The test records video footage of the user in order to gauge facial expressions and emotional responses to your application.

With Stylify Me you can copy the color hue of any website.  When you enter the URL in the top search menu it reveals the exact HEX values for that site.

With UXPin  you can design a website or app from start to finish. UXPin allows the user to develop lo-fi wireframes into a hi-fi prototype.  UXPin provides drag and drop tools for UX interactivity, creating codeless animations, and for designing UI Patterns.  UXPin works with Photoshop and Sketch so that you can convert static files into interactive prototypes without losing layers.

Sketch has very similar features to Photoshop, but Sketch was specifically designed as an image editor for digital design, while Photoshop has a broader set of tasks.  Sketch uses CSS logic from the start, which makes for an easier transition into development.  Sketch also has an auto-cropping feature and one-click exports into various formats.  Sketch has easy navigation and convenient developer tools.

Photoline is a little less well-known, it’s a little cheaper, but it still offers some useful features like photo manipulation, nondestructive layering, vector editing, and desktop publishing.  It also has multi-layered importing and exporting for EXR.

Optimizely is another tool that provides user testing, but it only does A/B testing.  A/B testing compares usage data from two different versions of your product.  A/B testing can help guide production decisions and early experimentation.

Once you have selected a color scheme, Color Safe helps you select the best contrast balance for readability.  Improving legibility through color contrast is essential for creating an amazing UX.

XMind is a free app that is used for brainstorming.  It uses open-ended “mind mapping” tools for creating diagrams.  Xmind is an excellent task manager for keeping organized.  The visual setup allows for quick comprehension, and for easily customizing your goals.

Mural is a digital whiteboard with efficient tools for collaboratively designing the UX.  Your team can use Mural to brainstorm and organize concepts.  It supports files from Youtube, Vimeo Slideshare, Google Drive, and Evernote.

Google made Resizer to help devs create responsive layouts. Google describes it as an interactive viewer.  Resizer is intended to test for Material Design breakpoints across desktop, mobile, and tablet.  Resizer can populate the website from any URL into a variety of layouts.  Then you can see which layouts work best for each screen size.

What do you think the future of design will look like?

 

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One of the pain points of retina MacBook Pros is that Photoshop, natively, offers no elegant way to design in relative dimensions, thus 100% 1:1 pixel ratio files look tiny on a retina monitor.

My first stab at alleviating the squinting and blurriness was a naive attempt to simply x2 the pixel dimensions of my document (1200px scaled to 2400px).

Bottom line: Don't do it!
While it gets the job done, Photoshop doesn't natively do a great job of scaling type and patterns up and down. Thus, what was 24px on a retina screen becomes 12.01px on a non-retina screen, which will drive any designer completely crazy.

So what's the solution? Well, thanks to the folks at UI Parade, I did stumble upon an indirect solution. Their plugin, DevRocket, offers magical (+) and (-) buttons that leave nothing to Photoshop's interpretation. This was originally released to facilitate more realistic iOS retina comping. In a recent version of DevRocket, however, they've allowed the plus and minus buttons to be used on documents not generated by their plug-in.

DevRocket Plug-in

While small, this DevRocket feature has been quite handy; enabling myself as well as our entire design team to work together in a way that is beautiful-regardless of pixel density!

Troubleshooting Tip: The only hiccup in this process is that copying and pasting text in a new layer occasionally confuses Photoshop; copying 12px text onto a new layer sometimes creates 24px text on a 1:1 document. After a few times though, this will become second nature.

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