We often need to quickly prototype ideas for a company's internal R&D or for demonstrations for potential clients or investors. Most of the time, the audience is not technical at all and to increase the success of a demo, a visually appealing solution is quite important.
Years ago, expectations were lower and usually, the salesperson would build a powerpoint presentation and would pitch how the software should work, its benefits, and so on.
With so many open source technologies and cloud services (which are often free for a basic app deployment) available, expectations are now way higher. To make a successful demo to a nontechnical audience, the app should be visually appealing. If you build a presentation for developers, and it's not about how to style applications, unstyled apps actually work better. In many cases, styles can...
