Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
Image matters. How you present yourself to the world is one of the most important deciding factors of success whether it's a person or a product. When I'm looking for applications to do something and I'm presented with multiple choices, I usually go for the one that looks the best. If you have a sleek sexy looking UI, it's a guarantee I will try it out. The only time I make an exception is if a certain application has good word of mouth and comes highly recommended by multiple people that have used it.

It's kind of unfortunate because there are a lot of really good programs out there that sit behind really ugly and outdated looking UIs but the truth is when we need something, we often don't have time to try out every option so we have to save time by filtering out some of them and it's aesthetics is often the metric we use first. It's just how we are as humans.
See I'm of the mind that if something looks "slick" then the developer is probably into bling and not so much into substance.

I want an interface that looks efficient, not shiny.