First run on Windows after install: [cursing removed] is this?

[CaNerdIan]

Installed InDesign on my wife's Windows 11 computer so she can do some church bulletins, and when she first runs it, she gets this screen that has zero indication of what it is, what it's for, or what needs to be done. 

Can anyone enlighten us as just just what in the heck this is/means? 

 

Utter UX fail (adobe? Microsoft? Who knows? I'm a Mac user, and have never seen this)

for not providing any actual text, tooltips, or even a *shred* of context as to what this is. Forcefully terminating InDesign and restarting makes it go away, but... [cursing removed] ?  

[Laubender]

@BobLevine said: "… which is very simple to turn off by switching workspaces."

Sometimes it's not that simple. I made the experience that InDesign was completely unresponsive the first time after installing it when showing the Touch workspace on a laptop with Windows 11. What helped was to kill the process and start up a second time. But I had to go hrough that "tutorial" from A to Z ( what's new etc.pp. ) at start-up and finally I was able to switch the workspace.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I don't think there's any question that a new install should not start up in touch mode. At all. No matter what device it's installed on. The user should have to select touch mode as a manual step. Auto-detect, aka "let's outguess the user," is a bad engineering choice here.