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

Frankly I hope a good looking easy to use competitor steps up to the plate and shocks the hell out of Adobe.

I honestly thought I had a gfx driver issue the first time I loaded it, it really does look that bad, alt tabbing between AI and PS is horrendous.
Discussion is futile, get used to it.

They basically don't care what you think and what you need.

The flat design of the interface in Photoshop 15.1 is very difficult to use. I much preferred the older UI and am greatly hoping that an option will be added to revert to the "boxed/shadowed" version. I use Photoshop 10-12 hours a day and this is very difficult to look at and use. I need differentiation in the fields.

User interface controls are sloppy and full of regressions. It feels like each update to Photoshop via Creative Cloud is a step backwards. I launch Creative Cloud to look for an update and Photoshop locks up — restarting doesn't restore the active files.

The UI is not polished or is being over managed by a 20-year old web guy who doesn't understand desktop software:

• Capsule buttons have text that aren't vertically centered.
• Dropdown combobox arrows have padding on the right that's too tight.
• Chevron arrows should not be used for hierarchical menus
• Active items in the layers menu is now gray (which used to indicate an non-RGB channel selection

This list goes on and on. You're shipping products too fast and your quality control is terrible.

I am quite certain that the Adobe folks are carefully monitoring our conversations. And after one or two attempts to join our conversation they may have realized that this won't help them sway us.

But sitting it out might.

And honestly, we are not enough here to really make a huge impact. I don't know how many subscribers Adobe has in the CC community, I'm guessing it's in the Millions, so even a few hundred here are a mere fraction against the silent majority out there.

The only way I see to make Adobe reconsider is to amplify our volume. Here, and otherwise.

Does anyone know of other similar discussions around the Interwebs? They should be linked here. Any PS UI reviews out there? They should be linked here too. We all should tweet about this forum here, post it on Facebook and Google+, or anywhere else you see appropriate.

It's time to amplify the volume if we really want change!

this ridiculous interface design may infiltrate all other CC apps as well

This is the worst nightmare!

I'm now seriously concerned that this ridiculous interface design may infiltrate all other CC apps as well – which really would be enough to make me look for alternatives.

I have had my share of strange user experience decisions being a lifelong Apple fanboy, but they (almost) always came around and listened to us, their paying customers.

I find it hard to believe that Adobe senior management can argue a business case from this interface mess. Design decisions are always subjective, no question, but a user interface is a very different project that a pretty poster, an ad or an edgy TV spot.

I have seen people leave car dealerships because they did not like the dash design. And rightfully so, after all, design decisions are subjective.

It's absolutely beyond me how such a radical push of the PS UI to the worse was not user acceptance validated and accessibility tested. In my book this new UI fails in both categories.

Well said angkmaurer.

Dear Adobe team,

I am also a daily, professional user of CC. The new UI is EXTREMELY difficult to read, especially the character palette. There is no hierarchy; very little differentiation between the palette copy and the user variables makes at-a-glance understanding all but impossible . For users of the entire suite, the new look is especially jarring. UI should be function over form...photoshop is a tool. Please fix this.