CREATE: Graphic Design + Fonts 4+

Amazing app!

There is a learning curve with Create but the in-app instructions have been super helpful. With continuous use, the app is quite easy to use. You are able to play with many of the features without buying anything, but I was happy to make the 10 dollar purchase to support the creaters and team. I love this app! The interface is great and simple. There's thoughtful features I haven't seen in many apps which truly makes it shine: (It's beyond me to explain them in a technical way that makes sense but I'll try) you can group layers together easily, save components for next time, create your own colour palettes, and the finger gestures and buttons around the corners the image/shape I find very efficient.

I would love to see a colour dropper in future updates if possible!

Thank you!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for that thoughtful review!
We still have some improvements to make on the grouping feature. We also plan to enable the export of component as pngs with customizable size.

Regarding the colour dropper, we thought about this but as there are already a lot of features packed into the colour tool, it seemed like it might be overload, and also seldom used.
How do you think that you would use a dropper... to extract a color from a photo?
If you just wish to reuse the color from one layer, you can just select and save it, then apply to another layer. Or is that too many steps?

Thanks again, and we’d love to hear about other areas that you feel could be improved.
Feel free to email us at: we@create.mobi

Perfect!

Tried and used several other graphic design apps (including one requiring subscription) that I thought were great or at least decent, until create immediately showed me that they were all garbage.

Pass on this.

Let me restate. The UI provides a nightmarish experience even for someone who has experience with other ‘sophisticated’ pieces of software. You assume that I am a new user. I am not.

Common functionality requires relearning a piece of software that, as far as I can tell, offers NO benefit beyond that offered by other software or apps in it’s genre.

The very first line in your app description claims that it is the most powerful and easy to use app. It also claims to offer the power of desktop design tools. I don’t feel that either of those statements are even close to being true and I feel misled.

Your UI is horribly inefficient in my opinion.

Developer seems more interested in defending poor design decisions rather than taking criticism to offer a better product.
Sorry if you got offended, but your app does need some work.
A successful developer would take value from criticism rather than getting defensive.

I already have Affinity Designer. Create comes nowhere to being a contender in terms of functionality and ease of use.
If you’re trying to compete, you do have a ways to go.

Comparing your app to PSD is definitely premature.

Developer Response ,

I see from your reply that you are using CREATE on the iPad, where there are indeed many excellent design tools available. CREATE is primarily used on the iPhone where I do not believe there is an Affinity product. The fact that Affinity did not just scale down their product to fit on the smaller screen tells you something, that the normal desktop/iPad pallets and menus do not work efficiently on the iPhone. That is why CREATE had to develop new UX patterns to make it useful. There are a few other sophisticated design apps for the iPhone but they tend to be difficult to use, meanwhile CREATE offers the most tools with the most effective UX on this screen size. But yes you need to spend a minimal amount of time to learn how the more complex features work. The main features are quite simple:

Tap the ‘+’ button in the bottom toolbar, then add: shapes, text, lines, photos to the canvas.
Single tap on an object to select
Double tap to edit
Long press to duplicate or group

I was not offended and I think my original message (below) does not convey this. Meanwhile by calling something 'horrible' and 'nightmarish' it seems that your intention was not to be constructive, but instead to trash something that you were unwilling to spend the time to learn how to use. BTW I didn't compare the app to PSD, I just gave an example of another app that requires learning. If you have the time to try CREATE on an iPhone and compare to other similar apps, I would be interested to hear your thoughts.

Original developer response:
By ‘intuitive’ you mean that you want to instantly understand all the features and how they work. Is that how it is in all your apps... PSD?

Sophisticated apps with lots of features often require some learning. CREATE has a comprehensive help section for this purpose.

There is a price to intuitiveness... making something simple and obvious to the new user often means that it becomes inefficient and cluttered for experienced users.

Many experienced users of CREATE will tell you that it becomes extremely natural to use. I suspect that the issue you are having with the UI is unfamiliarity — we do need to do a better job at onboarding and explaining. This is something the we continue to work on.