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

Adobe projects revenue of nearly $6 billion in 2016.  A lot of that is coming from new CC users on mobile devices.  To see the Photoshop users that Adobe UX is targeting, watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1LdH5YI6MQ

Tens of millions of users on mobile paying $10 a month are the users Adobe cares about. The small handful of professional users sitting behind 30 inch monitors are peanuts to them.

As said by everyone else here... The UI and low contrast color scheme is unusable. I can't see anything! It's very hard to tell which layers and layer comps are selected and depending on the theme chosen in Interface > Appearance (specifically the third one), gray on gray on gray MUST be a joke. Has to be. Makes no sense otherwise.

End the joke and fix the <profanity removed by admin>. Can't tell nothin'.

I come across negative comments ALL THE TIME it's just that they aren't centralized into a few threads about only the interface. Comments about the new interface sucking to no end are all over the web but in some of the most obscure places. I could probably fill three pages of links with them had I been saving them. Here's another recent example:

EDIT: Fixed link

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/adobe-announces-new-adobe-xd-creative-cloud-app-for-end-to-end-u...

I just my Adobe rental renewal notice... $600 for another year. Aside from the core group of apps, the rest are just art school student fluff. I got 5 years+ from my $600 CS5 full suite upgrade, and everything looked and worked fine. Photoshop 2014 was the last okay update. They have us over a barrel unless other programs come along that can adequately replace them. I'm no longer the loyal user I once was. I do it only because I need to interface with other professionals.

Maybe Adobe will pay more attention since this thread made the front page of Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11295944

Every word is so true grauenwölfe. Are you listening Adobe???? PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ABOUT CC 2015.1 SUCKS. Repeat...SUCKS. Yes I am going to criticise Adobe in general, yes I am going to criticise designer Seth Shaw, yes I am going to criticise everyone above Seth who approved this gigantic stuffup. The above comment about a black and white monitor trend pretty much sums up the ridiculous current interface when most us spend a small fortune on excellent (ie. non touch screen) monitors. Why Adobe.....WHY????

The lack of informing users about the new interface is what I can't get past. This is just absurdly inconsiderate. Even more so since it's such a goofy, amateurish change.

I'm especially fond of the designer's bold choice of cutting off one pixel on the Character palette's Font Style dropdown. You can let your low-level designers know they can bump that entire input field over about 10 px or so. Lastly, nice center alignment on the Ligatures/Fractions grouping down there too.



And seriously, I'm about to stab the Pen tool repeatedly in the face with the Slice tool. Is the Pen tool not driving anyone else mad? Constantly selecting all anchor points after any edit is made? WHY? There's a 50/50 shot of actually selecting the anchor or handle you want, and the ol' arbitrarily changing the Path operations selection/mode caper (my personal favorite).

And fix the title bar double-click. MAKE Photoshop obey the OS setting of letting the title bar MINIMIZE the window and not zoom it. Photoshop is the only app that ignores this setting. I know you're just going to say this is yet another inherent or "well-known" Mac OS bug so just spare us unless you can just acknowledge the fault like other normal software companies do.



Man, as the weeks go by I am becoming more and more irritated with this entire update. CC 2015.1+ is earning a spot right next to Mac OS 10.7 for me. Otherwise, great job on your mastery of grayscale. You'll be a step ahead when some upcoming black and white monitor trend comes around someday.

It is quite sad that PS CC2014 is just so much easier to use than the latest version. With not only the glitches, bugs and faults of CC2015.1, the terrible interface makes it obvious Adobe has wasted a LOT of money and effort in the last year. Updates should be a step forward not a backward slide into the abyss. Lift your game Adobe.

WAY TO FAR!

It's also the new Toolbar Icons that are very hard to recognize.
And the, to large buttons, with way to big corner radius (what makes them harder to aim at).

And the fact there was no mentioning at all that we were about to install a new UI with an update.

Thank you Adobe for us being able to revert to an older version of Photoshop. That's really, really useful!
(I/We try to make a living with this software.)

WAY TO FAR!

It's also the new Toolbar Icons that are very hard to recognize.
And the, to large buttons, with way to big corner radius (what makes them harder to aim at).

And the fact there was no mentioning at all that we were about to install a new UI with an update.

Thank you Adobe for us being able to revert to an older version of Photoshop. That's really, really useful!
(I/We try to make a living with this software.)