Frame 11 Appearance

[Keith Soltys]

I thought that MicroType's Express Customization tool for FrameMaker might be a partial solution to this as it does have customized toolbars with coloured icons. But alas, the toolbar customization is only available in FrameMaker 8 and earlier.  The FrameMaker 9-11 version offers customized menus, but doesn't change the toolbars.

I could have sworn that I saw an article or post about a tool that offered coloured icons in the FM 11 toolbars, but I can't find it in my mail archives and a Google search was fruitless.

And that still wouldn't solve the icky font issue in the tabs.

Maybe somebody who's good with a programming resource editor could solve this, but it's beyond my skill level.

Regards
Keith

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Burton
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:34 PM
To: tmuir at spot-on-creative.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Frame 11 Appearance

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

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