Hi Mohr,

If you have a moment, please let the team know about your difficulties here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Thanks,
Kevin

I like the new interface too, but the handles of a keyframe are really hard to see.

Also scrollbar positions are not allways easy to realize. I think, sitting 8+ hours a day in front of computerscreen is taxing enough for the eyes. A little more contrast would be fine!

Hi Jojejo,

jojejo wrote:

 

I like the new interface too, but the handles of a keyframe are really hard to see.

 

Also scrollbar positions are not allways easy to realize. I think, sitting 8+ hours a day in front of computerscreen is taxing enough for the eyes. A little more contrast would be fine!

The keyframe handles is a bug. As far as the scroll bars go, I'm not aware of that one. Can you file bug reports for both? http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin,

Thanks for the URL. I have submitted info about my difficulty there.

-Paul

I posted this in another thread (and filed a bug report on this), but it bears repeating. We need to keep hammering away at this until Adobe changes this back.

The current version of After Effects CC with the blue colors is absolutely unusable, to me.

Here's the deal: bright blue light actually focuses in front of the retina, making it look out of focus. (You can see this effect most noticeably when you look at blue Christmas tree lights.) The blue UI elements against the gray are absolute murder on the eyes.

http://www.cclvi.org/contributions/light_and_low_vision.htm

"Blue light wavelengths and part of the blue spectrum are focused in front of the retina, while green and yellow are focused on the retina, and some red spectrum is focused behind. Thus blue light contributes little to visual acuity and visual perception loses sharpness as the blue light component adds significantly to the eye's energy expenditure for focusing, and if reduced can greatly reduce eyestrain without loss of acuity..." (Quinn, 1998)

As a person who used to work at Autodesk -- and who knows for a fact that their UI designers don't actually sit in front of the software and use it for 12 hours a day -- I have to say that Adobe's "UI refresh" smacks of marketing more than any actual familiarity with using the software in production.

Either change the colors back to what they were, or give users the option to customize the UI and change it to the previous colors, because this is just atrocious.

Until then, I'm going to have to use an earlier version of AE CC, because the current version is impossible to look at for more than 5 minutes at a time.

And whoever approved these UI changes should frankly be fired -- he/she demonstrates a complete lack of familiarity with software UI design, and how your customers use your products in production.

Between the new UI and the bugs, almost everyone I know has either reverted back to 8.0.1, or didn't install 8.1 in the first place. I'd be curious to know how many Adobe users are still on 8.0... Not that they'd share them, but Adobe must have those stats; if large numbers of their users refused to use the latest, "greatest" update, I would imagine that would help send Adobe a message, too.

Thank you jonabell, I absolutely agree and it's nice to see some actual reasoning behind how this works on the eyes.

Like many others, I find the interface change to be difficult to read. I feel the new "look" is flat, bland, hard to read and very hard to navigate. I hoped it would be something to adjust to, but after using it for a while, I am convinced this was a bad move. I send a feature request/bug report regarding this, and hope others who dislike the change will do the same.

If you want to see how bad the problem really is...use this new version for 1 week....and then fire up the previous version. Everything looks so much easier to read. Your eyes will thank you.

It's good to know that nobody in the design team thought that there are users who suffer from various degrees of color blindness and, thanks to this update, are finding it even more difficult to use the interface than the other users.

And make sure to change everything, i've just noticed that the "include this property in the graph editor" button in after effects is affected as well. I'm completely unable to see if it changes color when clicked, quite difficult to navigate through all the properties to check which is used when multiple are included. And selected keyframes are almost indiscernible from unselected ones.

Should i just use the original AE CC?

Very good job adobe.

Just change it as soon as possible, please, it was a very bad idea.

Yellow is better than blue.

I normally have my background brightness in afterfx turned to the darkest setting due to prolonged use. Even with this turned up (which does make the blue more visible), it is still a real step backward compared to the yellow.

Please Adobe, please change this. Or better still, allow users to configure the highlights in a custom manner, much like the background brightness of the UI.

Hi T Tombo,

Posting in the forum probably won't be seen by the people most responsible for the UI. Please let us know by filling out this form instead: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi Ultharim,

Let the team know here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

The team responsible for the UI probably won't see your suggestions here.

Thanks,
Kevin

HI David,

davidp158 wrote:

 

I send a feature request/bug report regarding this, and hope others who dislike the change will do the same.

Thanks for taking the time to get that request in.

Best wishes,

Kevin

Hi Jonabell,

Have you given us your feedback in a feature request/bug report yet? Here is the link: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Thanks,
Kevin

Mohr wrote:

 

Kevin,

 

Thanks for the URL. I have submitted info about my difficulty there.

 

-Paul

Thanks, Paul.

Kevin

Kevin,

Yes, absolutely – I posted my complaints about the UI issues as a bug.

I’ve said it before, but the person responsible for changing this (or signing off on the changes) should be fired. Making UI changes that result in the software being damn-near impossible to use is just pure incompetence. And where was the user testing and review of these changes? Did no one at Adobe speak up and say, “hey, this makes the software harder to use!”

Jon A. Bell

3D Computer Graphics Artist/Technical Writer

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