I have spent time with anyone on the TCS team I could find, complaining about the UI for older eyes. It's a perfectly suitable UI for 25 year old eyes and a perfectly wretched UI for older eyes. The low contrast tiny icons are horrible and make my head hurt after an hour or so. Stronger contrast with color would be the best. Maybe slightly larger icons, since we are there.
And remember that Tech Comm is typically a second career, meaning by definition we are going to have more older eyes than we might. So, this is the wrong UI for the user base. They really need to listen to the users on this. Stop asking the 25 year old developers if they like the UI. Ask the USERS, most of whom are not 25 years old. And then don't get me started on the UI for Acrobat. The UI for Photoshop probably works for that user base. But it's a mistake to assume all Adobe products have that user base. Because we aren't. But they are taking that UI and making it the default UI for all products. It's the wrong UI for people not doing intense color work with 25 year old eyes. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tori Muir Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:18 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame 11 Appearance Preach it, sister! #1 thing our team HATE about Acrobat X: the Next/Previous comment buttons for PDF edits were taken away. Why, Adobe, why?! It took considerable effort to convince our clients to shift from an all-Word workflow to a Frame + PDF markup workflow, then Adobe go and make that workflow substantially less efficient. In a document with hundreds of comments, scrolling through them via the side scrollbar is a giant PITA: hard to control and prone to missing individual comments. No exaggeration, between this missing feature and the jumping around mentioned below, Acrobat X adds 20% to the time needed to work through a round of edits. But the #2 thing that is disliked is the PlaySkool-size gray-on-gray-on-gray UI elements now afflicting all Adobe apps. Color is a great way to easily distinguish between tiny icons, especially for those of us with eyeballs that have passed the half-century mark. And the chunky, clunky font is neither attractive nor easy to read. Loath though I am to praise anything emanating from Redmond, Word's interface is at present a lot better to work with. Tori Muir tmuir at spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com On 2/20/13 10:41 AM, Karen Robbins wrote: Me too! I truly dislike the dark, drab, low-contrasty appearance of Frame and all the Adobe apps. Whatever happened to clarity, readability, contrast, and the ability to size UI text for improved accessibility? Even the best settings aren't good enough--it goes from really low contrast and poor readability to barely-tolerable contrast and still poor readability. Another bad interface is recent Acrobat (Pro). UI elements are oversized, clunky, and take up far too much screen real estate! I hate having to click, click, click all over the place to reveal and hide stuff, and have the document jump around, resize, etc. while doing so. As bad on Mac as on PC, unfortunately. (And don't get me started about Dreamweaver....) --Karen _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as tmuir at spot-on-creative.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/tmuir%40spot-on-creative .com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130220/f4788694/attachment.html>
