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title: "Tech Talk: A Call for Beauty in Apps"
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# Tech Talk: A Call for Beauty in Apps

Feb 14, 2012 9:00:38 AM  |  by [Sarah Reinhard](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/sarah-reinhard)

*Find the [Tech Talk Tuesday](http://catholicmom.com/tag/tech-talk/) archive [here](http://catholicmom.com/tag/tech-talk/).*

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Most weeks, in this space, I review apps.

But this week, I interrupt that, despite a bursting "to review" folder on my iPad, to bring this call to action to all of you who have any contact with app developers.

**We need beauty in our apps.**

Beauty can be defined many ways, but as an avid app user, I find myself having less and less patience for things that are not beautiful.

At the same time, I'm almost begging some of the app developers I know to use ideas I have. How do I tell them, when all I'm offering is the currency of ideas and not the currency of cash, that I don't want them to even try it if they're not going to make something beautiful?

In my attempts to better define what beauty means in the context of an app, here goes:

1. Beauty means intuitive ease of use.

AND

2. Beauty means pretty.

Yes, I said *pretty*.

I've had a number of apps lately--useful, easy-to-use apps--that have left me almost disgusted with their lack of pretty.

I can only compare it with my experience of walking into the Catholic Church as a non-Catholic early on an Easter morning, smelling the incense and seeing the light streaming through the stained glass windows, and feeling full.

Full of *beauty*. Full of *pretty*.

Dear app developers, you are doing a wonderful service to us. You are such an important part of the New Evangelization. Don't shortchange us--or yourself--by settling for anything less than the most beautiful.

*Copyright 2012 Sarah Reinhard*

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### [Sarah Reinhard](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/sarah-reinhard)

When she’s not chasing kids, chugging coffee, or juggling work, Sarah Reinhard’s usually trying to stay up read just one … more … chapter. She writes and works in the midst of rural farm life with little ones underfoot. She is part of the team for the award-winning *Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion*, as well as the author of [a number of books](http://sarahreinhard.com/my-books/).

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