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

I directly emailed it.

I messaged the link to this page on Seth's Facebook page just in case he has been sheltered from the storm.

Well, I read the article and it seems he thinks he did a good job. Everyone thinks to be doing good until someone tells you that you're wrong, so I assume no one ever told him.
By the way, of course he is not the only responsible of the abomination so down the article you can see the names of the geniuses (sarcasm) who made this.

http://www.setopacity.com/articles/20...

The Client pays your bill — or doesn't!
Give your Client unusable junk and he won't continue to use, or pay, you.
This new UI falls full square into the Unusable Junk category.

Yes, but so what? He created an iPhone app as his senior thesis.

The 'angry' queue is getting longer. I absolutely expected the designer of this madness was never a working pro photographer.

Oh stop. Do you really think one person single handedly revamped the entire interface? Of course he didn't. There are many artists involved, and they answer to creative directors and marketing people.

Stop beating up the artists folks. Concentrate on productive, constructive feedback.

We've all been the person who has labored over a project for months, only to find out the client hates it and tells us in no uncertain terms.

Don't be the client. We all hate the client.

Graduated 5 years ago from Ohio State with a BS in VisComm... no real experience to speak of aside from working at Adobe.

And this is the guy who has "redesigned" the interface which we professionals have been using since he was in diapers? Seriously?

That makes me angry.

Well, check this out:

http://www.setopacity.com/articles/20...
wrote by Seth Shaw, Lead Designer (Twitter @sethshaw)
I sent a message, asking him to read this thread.. I hope he will..

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BTW I'll rollback to PS 15.0.1, right now I'm having a really bad experience.
My interface was already small and unreadable due to Windows scaling issue.. now is flat..
So, if one day they will fix the scaling issue, I will have to update..
No way to escape from this UI.

Chris Cox, another specific issue is the way PS now jumps around a strange combination of Windows OS and PS light and dark dialog boxes. Just ask the designers to stick with the native OS schemes and all may be forgiven. The example below are the boxes look like on my Windows 7 PC.