Frame 11 Appearance

[Sharon Burton]

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

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Twitter: sharonburton

Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, 
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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[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 
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