Hi, OK. It should never happen, that some features do not work. Or that features/shortcut keys get broken. However, the new interface really offers some very useful dialogs. For example: o Checking all references with the Insets pod. o Checking cross-references with the Cross-references pod. o Checking occurences of conditional text with the Add/edit conditional tag pod.
I like it that such information is at hand and ordered at the bottom or at the right of my monitor. Yes. Some steps could be more intuitive. However, that's not the end of the world. (I use FrameMaker for 20 years now and work with FrameMaker 10 for a year.) Best regards Winfried > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:14 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: why is FM's UI so weird and buggy? > > I don't think Adobe's UI work has anything to do with Macs. In fact, > it seems to be the antithesis of Mac UI design! :-) > > Recent/current versions of FM's UI (and those of other Adobe > products) apparently do not make comprehensible use of usability > research! The complaints I read on this list frequently point to how > the bad UI interferes with and requires extra steps to workflow. For > the complex projects of Adobe's target FM users, one would think that > exceptionally efficient and intuitive workflow would be demanded and > required. From a user's standpoint, consistency at the expense of > usability is, at best, ineffective. > > As long as we keep using this (and all) Adobe products--and do so > without creative and instructional criticism, their UIs will continue > to be designed ineffectively. Only when users speak up with voices > and dollars [insert your local currency here] is there a chance for > the UI to improve. > > --Karen ________________________________ This e-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressees named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in respect of any information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and immediately destroy this e-mail and its attachments.
