Why You SHouldn't Make Unnecessary UI Changes

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March 18, 2021
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Besides the fact that using multiple views was something that was not ONLY used for 3D cameras...Besides THAT. Where things are in a UI is something that's very important to users.

We develope muscle and eye memory of where to move our hand and eyes to reach and see what we need to. DONT * with the UI if you do not need to. Out of all the stupid things Adobe has done over the past 6 years this one REALLY pisses me off. Either explain to me WHY YOU DID THIS or PUT IT the * back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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zsaaro

Inspiring

Yo, can you imagine working on a product all day and reading your response? Do you realize there are human beings working on this? With feelings?

Here's a thought, try reading back your comment thinking you are actually part of the development team saying this to your coworker. Would you? With the caps lock and everything?

Regardless, your critism is valid and if you think there should be an easier way to split views keep posting about it, but from a developer prespective it's much easier to listen to your problems when you actually explain why it hurts you as a user, and not why it makes you mad.

P.M.BAuthor

Legend

I DID explain why it hurts as a user. Keywords: Muscle memory, Useful outside of 3D. As for an easier way to split views...NONE WAS NEEDED. That's my point. If YOU know of a reason WHY it needed to be changed than tell me.

How would feel as a dev? If I was a dev I would have spoke up at the time and said "Hey, this is a stupid idea and people are going to get pissed. Don't do it."

Now, every time I look to see what frame I'm on (which is very, very often) I'm reminded of the STUPID decision to change the interface in this way when IT WAS NOT NEEDED at all. An easier way?!!!! None was needed. As for you. You ask me to explain why it was a bad idea when I clearly did in the priginal post which means either you didn;t read it or you're too thick to understand so do me a favor stay out of my way. I'm in a foul mood. How's that for "professional"?

~Gutterfish

zsaaro

Inspiring

I can tell your in a full fould mood, I just don't want you to be. It's just a software.

We can talk nicely about this thing without hating each other.

I did read your original post, what I meant was that going more in depth about why it is a major issue is more valuable than capslocking and cursing.

As I said, I think your critisism is valuable and they should fix it, but I would not say they did it for no good reason.

You can clearly tell they are entering a phase of doing changes to After-Effects, this means rethinking the UI for some parts of it. I am not saying limiting the view splitting to 3D objects was smart, but it seems like they wanted to make the viewer options section less cluttered and more focused. Change is hard for old users who are used to the og layout but it is good for new ones, and for the future.

Keeping the viewer options bar shorter is better for less screen space / split views. In the new version:

the entire row is visible for both views. In the old version:

there are a bunch of hidden icons and more clutter.

Is this the final shape and form? who knows. But keeping it simple is the way to go imo.

Anyway, I don't know you and I both give zero * about each other, I mostly wanted to say critisism is better heard when someone is respecting your hard work and understand where you come from. After-Effects is going through a lot of changes recently and they also announced they are going to put a lot of effort on the 3D workflow in the coming years as (from what I understand) they're going to intergrate a real 3D render solution inside After Effects. They are probably rethinking the UI that makes sense the most for this which could be part of the changes they made to the viewer layout. Although these are just my speculations, sometimes you make small changes like this because it's a part of a bigger thought and that's why it can look stupid to you because you don't realise the real scope of the change.

I have a lot of critisism for Adobe, trust me, I understnad your feelings. I'm just saying there are ways to discuss it