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Mostly true - labels like "beautiful" and "elegant" make an app stand out when those labels are applied by other people , and not the developer of the app.
True, but this style of advertising is straight from Apple's playbook, and it didn't seem to rub many people the wrong way when they did it.
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I disagree. Someone describing their app as "beautiful" or "elegant" tells me that they really care about the beauty and elegance of the app and have spent time to make it so to the point where they are confident in attaching those adjectives to it. In my opinion, this is a good thing, because we need more people who actually care about what they build. I think that the audience being the ultimate judge, while true,…
Yikes, I think people missed your point. From the beginning of the internet until maybe 3 or so years ago - in a majority of cases, design was an afterthought. Only functionality mattered. More recently this has changed. Is calling your app beautiful and elegant overdone and maybe even a little cocky? Probably. However I personally really like applications that look beautiful. For whatever psychological reason it may…