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

In the new UI, the layers look like a paragraph, not like a list of items, this is my main problem. The lines separating each item in the layers panel are too dim, and do not have enough contrast, so it takes effort and time to differentiate between elements. Way more than in the previous UI.

Also, the input fields also look like any other regular label or element, so it's difficult to point and click quickly to change a value as before, where I had a withe background and before my eyes got to the filed my hand already was in there.

You know, in my laptop 13" and my iMac 27" even though I'm so used to work with Photoshop, my eyes need visual hints to pint and click more than the real content, I don't want to be reading the panels to use them, or pay much attention to them. It's like using them almost in an unattended fashion. Sorry for this awkward explanation but it's my best sentence in English which is not my mother tongue :D

Bottom line: All the UI colors are so similar that I can't find things in a glimpse like before, there is no visual hierarchy, more contrast is needed. Lines and items are not clear to the eye, everything looks the same color like it is inactive.

And Chris Cox, out of interest....are the designers of the latest UI just that...designers?? Or are they actual users of PS and InDesign?? I have a sneaky suspicion they are not the latter, or if they are that they are only casual users. It seems to be the ones not keen on their results are the real users, the core of Adobe customers. As I have said previously Adobe updates were always nice and useful...but this is just a massive fail.

"It only contains bug fixes"

That's like discovering the cigarette-lighter was missing on a car with no wheels.

I have to admit that I too am very wary now about hitting that Update button. You being a computer scientist Chris Cox, can a humble user like myself use Windows Restore to get back to the previous CC version? Mac users apparently can roll back, and have done so.

Chris (and I also thank you for being involved), just one of the many UI 'bugs' that is a workflow negative is the simple omission of a 'hover' state on buttons. There is no indication whether or not a button is clickable until it is actually clicked. Small I know but soooo annoying. There are many 'improvements' (lol) that now require a double take to proceed and each one takes a little more time and frustration that adds up at the end of a busy day. As someone else said keep Photoshop for the pros who use REAL monitors, needing a fast, accurate, easy to read interface and save the cruddy flat gray on gray touch interface for the cheaper cousins of PS. We don't want it!

Like an interface fix, Chris?

It only contains bug fixes.

Ahaha. Sorry to laugh but this is too good. What an absolute joke the Photoshop interface has become. It looks like some low-grade, knockoff software from China or something.

It looks so damn sloppy I won't be surprised if there are typos yet to be found too.

Nope. I'll wait to see the feedback from the community.

Has anyone updated to the latest 16.1.1 version yet? I'm terrified to do so. Ha!