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

David, what you guys at Adobe have to understand is this: a UI is there for the user, not for the designer. Your idea of choosing a darker background isn't bad per se. It simply shows that the darker background is somewhat more usable right now. Still a bad idea, but more usable somewhat.

Never forget: black text against white background is easiest and by far. A dark background is not a good idea. Pale gray text on white is awful. Even companies that know much more about UI, like Apple, have made mistakes resembling this one somewhat, but have come back to more useable interfaces. You're going to treat pains to avoid the Mac interface and the result is a pity.

Most of us love to use Photoshop CC. Please don't make it downright impossible for us. Remember Quark, they didn't bother about users and they went down the drain.

Better brace yourself: our complaints will never go away. It's not a matter of getter used to change, it's a matter of refusing a bad UI. Quite stubborn we are.

I am looking for an alternative to Photoshop. If I find one, I will certainly make the jump. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you are irreplaceable.

Great job Adobe, if you don't fix this absolute disaster and show signs of taking notice of your Professional user base then I'll have no option but to move away from Adobe products entirely.

Sincerely,
A Creative Cloud COMPLETE (All-Apps) Subscriber

nah. Adobe is on a path that alot of us simply dont want to walk. Its lack of real innovation that will choke them eventually.

I was fortunate to have a Time Machine backup. You could try to source the 2015.0.1 files elsewhere such as torrent and have a shot at activating it with your Adobe CC account somehow?

I went back to the previous version and now I have my classic and right interface back. Just disappointed that now I have Camera Raw 8.
I'd have preferred not to revert to one version back but just get rid of the last crappy update.

How about you stop screwing around with the finder integration on the Mac? Keep it up, and programs like Affinity will be easy to replace photoshop with. My latest update to Photoshop was extremely annoying and disorienting. We professionals are tired of your UI experiments. Leave it alone and develop something new and useful for the marketplace.

Here's a possible workaround. Go to a dual monitor setup with a hi res monitor for the image and low res monitor for the tools, panels, etc. At low resolution, the flat UI will somewhat more usable.

Great job Adobe!
Now I have a tiny User Interface (HiDPI not fully supported yet) with a modern ugly flat design. Great!

David, and fellow Adobe employee's

The new user interface cc2015.1, has no shape or dimension, no defining separation between areas, It’s FLAT almost monotone in color.

You need to go back and LOOK how it was in the old version.

Call up both versions of photoshop and put the old user interface on 1 monitor and the new user interface on a 2nd monitor side by side and look at them and ask yourself which one is easier to look at and decipher, and comfortable on the eyes.

Thank you for demonstrating firsthand the complete and fundamental lack of understanding on Adobe's part that we've all been talking about.