After Effects 17.1.1 is now available!

Previous version works fine, so I (and all of my coworkers) will stick with that.

I can't even tell you how many times I've clicked on Premiere instead of Media Encoder in the dock because THE ICONS LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME. Seriously, I don't advocate violence, but I want you to go up to whoever came up with that idea and give them a really dirty look for me, maybe throw in a finger point. That is so bad for productivity when you switch between apps a lot, the different colors made that so much easier because now I have to stop and actually look at them to see what the letters are, and that slows me down. How that idea made it this far down the pipeline is beyond me.

ok date typo sure, but i sat through a whole set of updates. Your mesage made me think i was loosing my mind. So have come to my main system, and the same thing exactly as i've described. And i took a grab just so you can see it.

I'm running the latest updates, and have just been pushed another update. Seeminly the same. Not a beta. SEE here: So what/why is there another set of updates? With the exact same build number... on two systems, not just one.

after posting this, quitting CC and reopening it. All updates have dissappeared apart from InDesign. Super strange.

Hi, the problem is you never listen to your customer. Branding new logo?? Who cares?!

Don't you have more important stuff to fix instead? Like multiprocessing, speed, LUT improvement. Pick yours.

This rebranding is a very, very bad for users. Remember when someone decided it's good idea to make icons in After Effects Project pane monochrome? Yes. It's the same level of madness. It makes no sense from usability perspective. 

Just look at this:

Why???

I bet that all the designers here understood what the same colours mean, yet that is a very poor objective when this part of branding didn't need fixing in the first place, nor it makes life of people who already work with these tools any easier by making all the icons look the same.

A better choice might be having the category colours slighly change - after all, we don't cut our videos in Audition or Animate, nor we make VFX in those. I also can't do frame by frame animation in Audition. There's not only one universal tone of purple and subtle changes would be better at distunguishing separate apps. Also, the loss of the rainbow in Adobe is just sad in itself.

Similarly Photoshop and Lightroom. Does Adobe really think that these two are so related they must have the very same colour? What about the actual users? Graphic Designer doesn't have to use Lightroom for months, but they'll use Phtoshop and Illustrator and Indesign as needed for projects. And does Adobe think that Photoshop and Illustrator are not part of the ANIMATION or MOTION DESIGN process?? What are we making assets in to animate later if not in these? Many of these apps are used in a variety of departments. Adobe is just forcefully telling someone (who though?) that this and that works together as a sole category. No. Photoshop and Illustrator both are great for illsutration and image making. Photoshops isn't used only for photo editing after photography gets processed in Lightroom.

If any of the new branding took the users into account, those are the reasons I'd like to see/hear.

Perhaps it's my singular love for colour, palettes and colour theory here, and the fact that I try to have my icons in colour/shape order. But then, designers are mostly wired like that, and I can't be the only who thinks of this change as unnecessary at the very least.