Erica Ogg for GigaOM:
Snapguide and Paper have two things in common. Both appeal to the creative side of mobile users, and both are themselves beautifully made and deceptively simple to use.
I think it’s these qualities that are going to provide a roadmap for more iOS apps to come that will appeal to the artsy, creative side of people, rather than the traditional consumption-oriented theme of what have so far been the most popular types of apps on Apple’s platform.
Absolutely right. We’ve gone through several of these waves of apps from productivity to games and every time developers start to push the envelope of what can be done, we get another one. Creativity looks to be the new wave.
Kind of.
I have a ton of “creative” apps for my iOS devices. Not everyone uses it for consumption.
But it is nice to see it being pushed forward.
It reminds me a lot about the early Mac days. First few things were toys and then stuff just kept coming out pushing the machine forward.
Creativity has been around for a while. It’s not a new wave at all.
That said, simple UIs so that the app focuses on the users creativity and not the developers is definitely on the rise (see Paper as an example). Which in my book is not a bad thing. If I’m going to IAP to get all the colors etc for an app (again looking at you Paper) it better suit my needs which are for my creation, not to see how cool and awesome the developer can make things