I’ve seriously been trying to work with this really disastrous version.. but I keep stumbling over really silly things that should have been caught in both usability testing and in QA/QC. My guess is that very little time was spent on that, instead relying on user feedback from paying customers to do the work for you. I am only saying this as a heads up - that many people are talking about the immense problems in this latest version in my organization - and we are actively looking at an alternative because of this.
Case in point.. the re-imagined contextual toolbar is a major fail! Nothing but a series of mindless icons that appear and reappear depending on what context the user is in. This is ‘modes 101’ - Don’t do modes!!! This is a well known usability issue that has been around for 30+ years! I only discovered today, that the shapes menu in some modes is buried under several other contextual menus and you can only get to it by hitting the Esc key several times! Before in the static toolbar it was ONE click to draw a rectangle - now it is multiple clicks within a convoluted myriad of interactions to try to discover how to draw a SQUARE.
The final kicker is the attached picture. I looked up today and was puzzled by the hieroglyphics at the top of my screen. What the..
Anyway this is the last free advice I can give you. It’s sad that this was once such an elegant interface - but has radically gone off the rails. Unfortunately we can’t wait around and the ship is sailing..
