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

My issue was more about the overthinking of the color nuances. I also work for "hours on end" (mainly between PS, AI & ID), and, at this point, just want to see some simple common sense come back into the UI for PS.

> You guys are overthinking this whole thing, Adobe included. The interface should be simple, intuitive, and across the board. No need for futzing with colors (or even agonizing over them)>

That hasn't worked well, and it's not for aesthetic reasons. All of us respond differently to varying amounts of brightness and contrast. If we work in these apps for hours on end, as many of us do, we need the brightness and contrast to be tailored to our own visual needs. I have lived with many an aesthetically ugly interface — I used Windows for some time, after all.

Futzing, as you call it, for me has been set it once and forget about it. I don't feel any agony doing that.  '-}

OOOOPS.

I was holding out updating InDesign, my go-to app over all other CC apps, for fear the interface may be mutilated like Photoshop. I just now I clicked the update button in the CC app but I did not see the dialog you're showing and it went straight into downloading the update. 

Eventually this resulted in an error and the update was aborted. Strange.

Not sure how to resolve this.

Awesome, thanks. I had looked at settings without actually updating anything ...

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@387734, one man's well designed is another's poorly designed. I suspect it is similar programming effort to create four variations (it seems like it was a sincere effort to make everybody happy) as it would to just add a few sliders for customization.

@Christen, I like the idea to choose if I want to keep the older app when installing an update. Following your suggestion 4 hours ago above here I just checked my CC app and could not find the 'Advanced' button/tab to select 'DO NOT REMOVE previous apps'. Where do I find this? Thanks.

You guys are overthinking this whole thing, Adobe included. The interface should be simple, intuitive, and across the board. No need for futzing with colors (or even agonizing over them) when well designed monochromatic with maybe a few variations to allow for user contrast would work fine. Adobe had a fine interface for years that worked extremely well. The more options for this sort of thing is a waste of employee resources and does no one any favors.

I agree. Excellent description of what I suggested earlier. Although I wouldn't mind a light blue highlight, I'm sure many would not like it. Letting the users choose will put this issue to rest. Yes, Adobe would need to cede some control to the users, but isn't the customer ultimately right?

@8045946 12) We are investigating the selection colors. For example, the selected layer color that was light blue in the previous release.>>

Please, please look at After Effects. You don't do yourselves any favors if you force a brightness level of blue highlight upon us (or any other color, but blue has generally been satisfactory). 

I know AE doesn't have to deal with as wide a range of interface brightness levels as the print apps do. But I'm able to use a custom brightness setting in AI as well, and I'm not hearing people complain. In fact, to the contrary.  I've heard text is the issue, but AI's text simply flips from white to black at 51% brightness and up, and it seems to work fine, perhaps because we can adjust the brightness level of its environment so we can still read the text without difficulty.

AE came out first a version or so back with a single, rather garish "light blue" hightlight,  and immediately fixed it with a slider, the outcry was so large. I use custom brightness in both AE and AI, and PS could have spared themselves a lot of this if they'd considered the slider approach for brightness plus a sliding highlight color. Something that makes what is active stand out a bit more without blinding us with contrast. But "blinding" is in the eye of the beholder, which is why there need to be as many options as possible.

Also, while you're at it, keep the layer labels desaturated, as you have done, and double the number. AE can offer a boatload of label colors. Surely PS can think about offering a few more to those of us who organize our layers panel with color.