Less is More in Mobile

An excellent blog post on Salesforce site on merits of minimalism in mobile development.

I am a firm believer of the following adage from the post:

"....relentlessly optimizing and iterating user experience until the process is as simple as possible."



http://answers.salesforce.com/blog/2017/01/less-is-more-marketing-engagement.html

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