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

Who would Seth Shaw's direct supervisor be at Adobe? Obviously we need to try and appeal to the ones that oversee him. He seems pretty new to all this and probably was not prepared for the onslaught of negative feedback.

I've even emailed Seth Shaw ( seth.shaw.01@gmail.com ) and explained that we users find CC 2015 such a pain in the butt to use that we are reverting to CC 2014. As yet I've had no reply but that doesn't surprise me...he probably finds it hard to believe.

You are right in a sense - I don't think Adobe should necessarily be a large corporate faceless entity either. People should be able to be proud of the work they do, so long as they are also self-aware in understanding that they are catering to hundred of thousands if not millions of paying users - and that many of these people may prefer ease-of-use and accessibility over Adobe's plans for Photoshop not having blurry icons on 4K screens.

There is just a lack of understanding occurring somewhere, our needs are being assumed instead of met. They're solving problems that don't mean anything to us, and creating problems that affect us by doing so.

for Seth to plaster it on his website and tweet about how he proud he is of it  >>>>

I am amazed that Senior Management has not jumped on this sort of conceit and self-aggrandisemen which seems totally against normal Corporate rules for behaviour by an employee.

Seriously. How tone-deaf can Adobe be. It's amazing. If I wasn't a paying customer I'd be laughing at how ridiculous this is.

Does Seth or anyone there understand accessibility? Differentiating button states, how to tell a user a field is interactive, or, you know - the most basic of basic design theory?

Currently, the only solution is: you have to roll back to 2014 and lose new features, just so you don't have to strain your eyes and get a headache from using the new flat UI.

The benefits of future-proofing the UI for higher pixel-density displays - that's understandable, but for Seth to plaster it on his website and tweet about how he proud he is of it and for him and everyone else at Adobe to completely ignore any of these issues and the bunches of paying customers - it's a little disconcerting, and super disappointing. Maybe Adobe really has lost touch.

Totally bewildered of the lack of respect Adobe has for it's paying users.

I just might. I'm bummed because they FINALLY added SVG support. So nice to be able to drag/drop and SVG, instead of opening illustrator, copying, pasting.

Absolutely agree Kurt...I find the 2014 version (downloadable from the Adobe site if you can't go back in your CC history) to be the best and easiest to use CC version by far. Everything since has been a visual and operational nightmare.

So much easier just to go back to the last 2015, or even better, 2014, that also has SFW where we want it. No idea why Adobe placed so much responsibility on the UI designer, Seth Shaw. He still needs to hone his craft. An absolute fail to all Photoshop professionals. There are some great PS alternatives coming along... like to see Adobe get back on course.

Ugh, just upgraded. My alarm started when I thought text field rendering was buggy.



Nope. Apparently that was an intentional design choice. Then I couldn't tell if Quick Mask was enabled. Which is which?

 

I mean... seriously? SERIOUSLY?! This was an intentional design choice by someone getting paid actual dollars.

And yet, changing the colours of a gradient layer mask requires three screens. Tinkering with UI components that didn't need to be changed, and leaving poor UX unresolved.

New options are hitting the market. If this keeps up, no one will be using CC in 5-10 years, and we'll be referring to Adobe and Quark in the same way: the past tense.

Hey, speaking of doing stuff like that, this is fun...