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> Sometimes eye candy actually helps usability.

I strongly doubt so. Eye candy becomes quickly old when you're using the software for hours a day.

Not all software is used hours a day. Some software needs to be intuitive so the user doesn’t need to invest hours to learn it. And visuals play a huge part in that.

> Some software needs to be intuitive so the user doesn’t need to invest hours to learn it.

Consistency helps more than aesthetics at this point. Shared metaphors and all that.

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