The Magic of “Single-Button” Apps

A story about building simple & amazing apps!

Omar Abou El-khir
4 min readJul 3, 2014

If you are one of those people who follow tech news, most probably, you notice how apps -mobile applications- are changing the dynamics of the tech industry, starting from startups, ending by high-school students learning iOS development.

There are many -so many- apps on app stores, each app is providing certain functionalities encapsulated in a group of user scenarios.

What about apps that focus on only “ONE” user scenario, “ONE” functionality triggered by “ONE” button?

Yes! “Single-Button” apps .. and here is the general user scenario:

  1. User opens your app.
  2. User taps a button.
  3. Magic happens!

Think about it for some time, an app that simply does a “ONE” core function!

Here are some examples about successful “Single-Button” apps:

The Shazam App

The famous app, that allows you to know info about any song plays around you, simply:

  1. User opens the app.

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Omar Abou El-khir
Omar Abou El-khir

Written by Omar Abou El-khir

Principal Research Engineering Manager @ Microsoft

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