Photoshop CS2 announcement - Beyond Tiki

H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Tue, Mar 29, 2005 10:58 AM On 2005-03-28 21:53, Tiki-bot wrote: I still firmly believe PS to be the most hideously outdated interface of any major software package. They did add LIMITED hotkeys in CS. And, I do agree with you TikiBot, that for how widely-used Photoshop is, it's interface is dated. HOWEVER, you come from the world of 3D, where their UIs are so fucking difficult to learn because every program decides they have the best way of creating little shortcut menus and whatnot. I don't want to have to CUSTOMIZE a UI before it becomes useful. It needs to be useful out of the box. A lot of software designers forget that. The "task-based menu presets" in the press release for CS2 sounds like it could be useful ... but we'll see.

On 2005-03-28 21:53, Tiki-bot wrote:
I still firmly believe PS to be the most hideously outdated interface of any major software package.

They did add LIMITED hotkeys in CS.

And, I do agree with you TikiBot, that for how widely-used Photoshop is, it's interface is dated.

HOWEVER, you come from the world of 3D, where their UIs are so fucking difficult to learn because every program decides they have the best way of creating little shortcut menus and whatnot. I don't want to have to CUSTOMIZE a UI before it becomes useful. It needs to be useful out of the box. A lot of software designers forget that.

The "task-based menu presets" in the press release for CS2 sounds like it could be useful ... but we'll see.

Post #149912 by hanford_lemoore on Tue, Mar 29, 2005 10:58 AM