P: New user interface lacks contrast and many usability cues, lots of other problems

LOL, me too for some of my legacy sites. Faster and quicker by far than DW.

I am frankly astonished that a company of the size and standing of Adobe could have allowed these incompetent amateur, but decidedly arrogant, "Designers" to have touched the UI in the first place—let alone allowing this charade to continue.

Adobe feedback forums have traditionally been more about bug fixes and validation for their products than constructive criticism that lead to rethinking it in a better way.

They'll fix the bugs, but features that they like? Etched in stone.

We saw this with Dreamweaver after they killed the wonderful Golive. They never brought its best features into Dreamweaver as they said they were going to do. The Golive forum was in uproar for a few years, to no avail.

It's fine when you have a feedback forum, but when you actively and deliberately ignore users who pay for your software, what's the point ?
Your a class act Adobe...second class.

I'm leading a UX Designer team in a bigger company and I would fire everyone for providing results like this. Seriously! That's a complete fail on basics of UI design.

I'll be sticking with CC2014 until Adobe actually releases a decent UI. And that sucks Adobe 😞

The 2nd dark interface is the only color scheme I like. The black has too much contrast so it gives me eye strain. The lightish gray? is muddy, and the brightest one I wouldn't use, but if I did, I'd want it to be, well, bright. Not dim with black accents. The most complaints seem to come from the people who like a light interface. I guess that's changed too much for them.

I don't like the flatness, either, though. It's more difficult to know what's highlighted. Turning the visibility on and off for Smart Filters is a stab in the dark. It always has been and certainly isn't any easier now. It can be difficult to quickly tell if some icons or buttons are active or not.

I don't think they did desktop users a big favor by going to the flatness popular now with touch devices, especially when we don't want colorful icons and buttons to compete with our images— but I expect it'll all change again, and it's very difficult to keep complaining that it's not the greatest UI anyone has come up with. I just hope they never, ever go back to thinking it would be a good thing if they just turn all the panel tabs around 90 degrees so you read them sideways. . . '-}

They used the same tactic herding users from buying to renting their software. I still am using the first version of PS 2015, and no intention of "upgrading", despite the fact that I have to pay for the new version. Almost laughable that they've been heavily promoting their new UX design software, and yet they don't have a solid grasp on good UX design themselves.

I've noticed our cranky feedback, which is universally opposed to the gray on gray theme, is becoming less and less frequent. This is exactly what the Ps team hopes will happen. They know best, and we're just a few cranky users. There is ZERO chance they will be adopting any of our proposed changes.