Questionable UI Design (radio buttons) CC2017

Report · Nov 10, 2016

I just wanted to set my clips to offline and I came across this screen (sorry for the German):

Seeing this, one would assume (well, I did) that the second option (deleting media files) is marked. In every other application a dark filled circle means "marked", right? Not here. Clicking either of those buttons will just switch between those two even when clicking the already marked entry. Premiere will bring up a warning if you end up choosing "Delete" but you may accidentally delete files if you're not careful.

For comparison, this is the same pop-up in CC2015:

Still different than in other applications, but easy to unterstand.

Usually Premiere always opens that box with the first option (keeping files) already marked. So experienced users shouldn't really have a problem, but it is still unintuitive enough that I have to waste a thought on that, when setting media offline.

Report · Nov 10, 2016

I think there was no good reason for Adobe to waste time refining the UI in PP2017, which, whether it's an improvement or not, remains highly subjective. It would be nice to see them fix UI issues that actually need attention, like renaming the "Project: This is the name of your open project" panel to just "Project" so that we don't have a huge tab constantly pushing other tabs out of view.

Once again, shame on Adobe for doing dozens of cosmetic changes no one ever requested and that in all honesty, benefit no one, while ignoring the legitimate UI change requests that could actually help us as editors.

Report · Nov 10, 2016

Seeing this, one would assume that the second option is marked.

To me, it seems pretty clear that the first choice is marked, the circled that's filled in.

Report · Nov 30, 2017

Ok. I kind of understand which button is selected. And it would be OK if I could click the top button twice to confirm that it's right.
But if you click twice (or more), this happens, see GIF.

Why so confusing and bad UI design? You'd think they have some bright minds that look after this, but hey...?

Report · Nov 17, 2016

I agree. Plenty of the UI changes in CC2017 feel like a step backward. There's the non-standard UI controls like you've pointed out, the mismatched buttons (rounded in some places, square in others - more just cosmetic than anything else), and my personal pet peeve - the additional padding around almost every UI element including the source and program monitors, timeline, track headers, project pane and tools pane. So much wasted space eating into my small laptop screen!