Yet another of these terrible bad usability from an app supposed to design User Experiences. Simply, not being enough this hurting white interface for those working at night, selected items highlighted on panels,  both on layers and components, are so low contrasted, that it can be a real headache to find it. The cognitive effort and friction scanning vertically through these diminutive list of items, makes big projects a real pain and a source of stress and fatigue.   Below you can see the extra pale blue barelly recognisable from the peripheral view, specially in very big screens and sorrounded by layouts full of bright colors.           {Renamed By MOD} ... View more

So... a thought after months trying to be efficient in my daily work: No usability on the "user journey" through usual tools, actions, views, interactions, etc, etc, etc... (not talking about the insane random way to manage assets/components… Atomic approach is almost impossible) To make it simple, here you go a list of frustrations and time killers. Later my proposals. Docked panels 1: Each time I need to get a component I’ve to click to the assets tab… Docked panels 2: Want to come back to layers?... click again (ad infinitum between both tabs) Mess with layers: After some years working wit XD, I’m still double and triple clicking over the layer name and icon to alternatively select it or unfold folder. Dozens of clicks to dig into: In Illustrator we have this useful “white pointer” to select individual elements inside complex hierarchy objects/layers. Here at XD, we have to be clicking for countless seconds until we pick up the right element in the hierarchy (as said in point 4, navigation through layers in  layers panel can be a pain. Sometimes we miss the right object, and have to start again from zero, clicking outside the layer, and starting to click again and again inside… Fooling text tool: The ones that come from previous Adobe apps as Illustrator, the act of select a text and edit its contents is a matter of a quick doubleclicking. Why has XD to be different in the same cognitive process?! Doubleclicking creates a new text box over the previous one. So delete this one, and start again… my brain utilizes learned instinctive actions from Illustrator, so I finish creating endless text boxes. Layers prevent from select the objects below: Clicking and clicking like a possessed trying to select something that is under a locked object, because in Illustrator I can do that. I’ve to manually hide all the layers above… starting again the hell of searching in the layer tab.   There are tons of other usability serious issues that convert a simple prototyping a headache and a waste of precious time… but really, I’m not the beta tester here, suppose there should be someone at Adobe with far better acknowledgement about usability than me. Well… and about proposals. Now seeing all the list of issues written, and my time disposed, think it’s enough to ask for common sense and look for some good advices out there about usability and “cognitive friction”. Although by now, “un-dockable” or “floating” tabs/panels philosophy could help us to improve our work. Thanks in advance.   {Renamed By MOD} ... View more

Hi! Just I've been this days creating lots of custom Workspaces and custom Menus. I have many plugins and I like to group them with Illustrator's own tools. It has been a work of some hours, organizing, adding tools, saving workspaces, etc... But since yesterday, all configurations seems to reset each time I close a document or reboot Illustrator. All toolbars and tabs dissapear from the desk (even if I press the Tab keyboard key), so I have to start to add all the custom tool bars one by one again. Custom bars configuration stands, but not it's position and apperance on each different Workspace. Just this morning I've uninstalled and reinstalled again Illustrator, but the problem remains. I copied the previous Illustrator configuration and workspaces of Illustrator 23 Settings folder to save inside the new created settings folder. Anyone with this same issue? Thank you in advance 🙂 Edu ... View more

Hi... I've been recreating the complete tool bars and tabs I used in my Illustrator CC 2018 (settings from 2018 are incompatible with 2019) After hard work grouping and creating custom Toolbars, I want to export all of them to my other Illustrator CC 2019. I tried through settings, but new customized toolbars aren't added as I expected. Then... anyone has found a easy way to export everything from Illustrator user interface in a single file? Thanks in advance 🙂 ... View more