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I can’t agree with you more!

This is for anyone: what is your opinion on the importance of design in selling? We all know that unboxing an Apple product for the first time is a religious experience for most.

But there are clearly companies that succeed with substandard attention to aesthetics in the name of clarity or speed.

I guess my question is really, can a product be made or broken on design alone, or is a beautiful design more of an effective marketing tool that helps a product that must succeed on its own merits?

A continuum from bad design, to good design. I say it’s objectivity lies in it’s mass subjectivity.

I find music, like a favourite band’s new album, for example, to be very much the same way.

Design icommunicates your message, and therefore, poorly designed elements communicate poorly.

That’s the importance of design in everything from web application to software, buildings, tools and etc.

Either you like or dislike it immediately, or you like or dislike it eventually; groundbreaking.

Design is crucial in every element of the small business sector, it’s important is paramount. Unfortunately the disadvantage is we live in a price driven economy and quality is going down the tubes.