apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

oh i am so getting this when i get my iphone! it'll be very handy when meeting clients and showing them different designs for their rooms right on the spot.

Sorry to be nit-pick but product and brand names are the easiest things to spell-, fact-, and format-check, especially products that are so prolific. IPhone? IPod Touch? Really?!

*I mean, sorry to nit-pick!

Ha! I'm such a hypocrite! But seriously, IPhone?!

Getting it right now.... wait $10? *sigh* I hate paying for things... I will think about it but I so want it. hmm

Saw the demo. I AM DOWNLOADING THIS!

I use Google Sketch Up. It takes a little bit more time but it's free and 3-D!

So i was looking at this app and how the developer (and the writer of this post) worded what this app is and it makes me concerned/angered/annoyed. This is not interior design, this is interior decorating. You cannot call yourself an interior designer (or really even any derivative of that) unless you are licensed. If you do, you can be sued, fined, and all sorts of other ramifications. DESIGNERS (opposed to decorators) go to school, stuudying in the field, work in a design firm, then take a fairly difficult test, which costs a lot of money. After passing, more money is paid, to get your actual license and then be a designer. If the creator of this is really a designer, he should know better that marketing this out is just bad business pracitce misleading.

Well the program itself is marketed as "you're virtual interior designer" and since a program can not attend school and nobody assumes it does nor would sue the program because it is stealing all the design jobs when it could not even pass the interior designer test (no opposable thums on iPhone although iThums is coming out soon).

I don't see the difference between this and having a program labeled as "your virtual real estate agent" or "your virtual doctor". No one assumes that the program is ACTUALLY a doctor or real estate agent, and no one assumes (hopefully) that using the programs will make them become a real estate agent or doctor or interior designer.

If the program was named "MarkOnCall ASID" then there might be a problem...

Looks adorable, but worth $10? Probably not. I can do that for free with graph paper and cut out furniture.

Wow, looks like it'll slow down my touch more than Amateur Surgeon does :)

I'm shocked, but not surprised to have missed the free design book--I never thought of the Touch as useful in this area. I've been dumbly printing pics of stuff when I could have synced them to photos...

I'd like to thank all of you who have tried my application for the IPhone and left a comment! As a licensed practicing Interior Designer, graduating with a Masters of Science in Interior Design over 20 years ago (In response to Katrina) from a an accredited 4 year University program, I decided to create an application that would put the tools of the trade into the hands of those who wished to design their own Interior Space as well as allow professionals to quickly, accurately, "Sketch" their vision in full color. The application allows the user to accurately set up the room plan and skin materials into place in order to see what the space will look like in a fully rendered plan.
I hope that you all enjoy and use this application that took us a great deal of time to develop in order to assure that it is, indeed, a useful tool for anyone wanting to design and yes...Decorate...their space!

Katrina58, actually what you claim is not accurate across the board. It depends on the state you live in whether there is a title act or a practice act. Here in MA and in many states, you can call yourself anything you want.

What Katrina is refering to is called "the Title Act" and it varies state by state. In some states, such as Florida, Texas and California, where the Title Act is in effect, you cannot call yourself an "interior designer" without passing the NCIDQ examination, having a 4 year degree and 2 year apprenticship, and applying for licensure with your state board. However manys states do not observe the title act, such as New York, and anyone who simply has a re-sale certificate (which one can easily obtain), can call themselves an interior designer, regardless of their education or experience. If New York were to ever enact the Title Act, some of these ritzy decorators here would be up in arms for sure. However if they ever tried to perform any commercial work in a public space, they would have to do so under the direction of a licensed architect, and in many cases, their lack of knowledge about commercial building codes, construction and engineering would surely cause many costly mistakes, possibly mistakes that would lead to a law suit.