Bridge 13 UI Design Feedback
The Bridge 13 adds some welcome features. Far better subwindow docking, (finally more than one Panel at the bottom), an improved address bar with dropdown and the Hamburger context menu indicators sure will come in handy when working with the tablet. A more visible cursor will help many users and a focus indicator for subwindows is an interesting idea, generally.
Apart from this Bridge 13 – at least on Windows got a lot uglier than 12.x. Its design follows no established Adobe convention and comes with way more strong contrast dividers and borders than necessary. The blue focus indicator for my taste is unnecessary bold – we all are pretty used to Adobe Apps which don't have such a feature. It goes without saying that one can't turn it off or at least tone down its colour.
There's no visual hierarchy in text elements. Tab-headings and child elements have the same size and font-weight. The white text has too strong contrast with the dark backdrop – this will get tiring. You have all the competence in the house – just have look at Photoshop how such is done nicely.
The whole GUI looks as it if one had tried to make a super beginner-friendly and accessible interface, contrasty and suitable for old peoples eyes – but then had forgotten about making UI-text distinct. This entire mess got rounded up (at least on Windows) with fat and bright scrollbars and a thumb wide, equally bright header.
Overall this still looks and feels very Beta.
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