[jrockway]

Products can be beautiful and delightful, but I'm not sure it's meaningful when you call your own product beautiful and delightful.

[solipsism]

Meaningful, maybe not. Having a desirable marketing effect? Probably.

[avemg]

I don't know about that. It's certainly becoming a trite way to describe your product.

[sanderjd]

Agreed. Even if "beautiful" is a foundation of a company's strategy, I like it when they show me what I can do, and let me notice how beautiful they've made it.

[moron4hire]

Also agreed. It's a bit presumptuous to declare that your product possesses such subjective qualities.

[jrockway]

I also wonder why someone would make a product that's not beautiful and delightful. It may not end up being beautiful or delightful for the users, but someone somewhere thought it was, right?

"Ladies and gentlemen: let's make an ugly and irritating product."

[sanderjd]

No, it's just priorities and trade-offs. There are lots of things that may be a higher priority than "beauty". Beauty is expensive. Often it has good ROI, but not always!