ThumbJam Forum

<r>Thumbtrond: At home, I've got my real instruments. But on the go - you know, life is too short to look at ugly things.<br/> <br/> Anyway, NanoStudio has arrived. After playing around with the mac demo, I bought it. <br/> <br/> According to Appshopper, it's already selling way better than TJ:<br/>...

<r>Hi Jesse,<br/> <br/> well even after I played around with it, I wouldn't buy it because of its looks.<br/> <br/> I think you should talk to Sebastiaan de With. Let him redesign the main screen and the "edit sample" screen (which is particularly bad, imho). Tell him to design custom controls, and ...

<r>Jesse,<br/> <br/> I just got around to play around with TJ for an hour. And what can I say? It sounds really impressive and is indeed very fun to play.<br/> <br/> So, congratulations. You probably had a limited development time and money, and you have allocated it well.<br/> <br/> The question is...

<t>Hi Mat,<br/> <br/> thanks for your reply. Of course bad + beautiful is < good + ugly.<br/> <br/> My point is that as a buyer, visuals count. This is not about superficiality. Good design tells me how determined a creator is, how much work went into something, how much he values what he does.<br/>...

<t>Hi,<br/> <br/> hats off, ThumbJam sounds very good.<br/> Something is stopping me from buying, though: The app is very ugly. Nice sounding, but not nice to look at.<br/> Looking at the screenshots and screencaps makes me wonder whether you're really giving your best, or whethever this is just a q...