App Design

Why User Research Should Inform App Design User research enables you to focus KPIs, prioritize app requirements, and build intuitive apps that are customized for a specific process. User research involves physically going down to the floor to ob...

Overview Before diving into design best practices, learn how user research is the foundation for successful app design, enabling you to build the most effective apps for your operations and ensuring maximum value from y...

The Tulip Solution Credo provides guiding principles towards Composability Solutions. The Solution Credo principles guide solution design and development which every Citizen Developer should "live by". Citizen Developers that follow these prin...

App Builders Make Critical Decisions About Solution Architecture When you build applications with Tulip, you make decisions about solution architecture , including app structure, data models, and integrations. Whether inte...

Learn how to design the most optimal solution for your operations. A Tulip Solution is a suite of apps designed to make Frontline Operations more productive. A solution details apps and their relationships to each other as well as other digital ...

Learn how to create and configure apps with best practices for composability. A composable app accomplishes a granular, defined task that’s designed for a single operator and uses common data in concert with other apps. In Tulip, composability...

Overview NOTE Before reading this article, make sure you are familiar with " How to Use a Base Layout ". The Base Layout is the heart of your application formatting. Getting the formatting right on your base layo...

Purpose Review our best practices for naming custom elements in Tulip as a starting point for your own apps and naming conventions. All custom named elements, e.g. Variables , Steps , Record s, etc., in Tulip should be named in a way that m...

How to Add Shapes to App Steps Tulip contains an entire library of shapes and symbols that can be accessed from the “Assets” button on the Toolbar as shown in the image below. To access and insert shapes from the the Tulip Icon Library: Ensu...