Robin-Yann StormJan 9
DaVinci Resolve is the king of “Yes you can see the data here but you have to edit that in a different tool context, in a tab, within a tab, in a menu, in a sub menu, with that button without a tooltip, why did you even have to ask?”
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Many tools do this, but DaVinci wins.

The classic excuse for tools with such workflows is that it’s “powerful”. Which is true, but Assembly programming is also powerful yet I still see people use abstraction languages to actually program most software.

‘Power’ is an excuse to not care about UX.

Show threadRobin-Yann StormJan 9

Blender had this exact same problem up until 2.8 when they finally changed their UI.

And thankfully there are receipts! A 2013 talk by the donut man himself, Andrew Price, about Blender needing better UI was practically laughed out of the room: https://www.youtube.com/live/6aIA2LaB2Iw?si=zTNdmF0vZzsnuwlI

Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI

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Show threadRobin-Yann StormJan 9

But in 2019 Blender did actually relent and there was a UI overhaul: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

An important lesson that you will get many silly arguments against good tool design, but they’re usually just covering for those folks not understanding the basics of UX design.

2.80 — Blender

Blender 2.80 features a redesigned user interface that puts the focus on the artwork that you create.

Blender
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@RYStorm yeah, but... i keep using 2.79b since then because i never liked the 2.80 (and later) UI :-P.

The day it stops working will be the day i'll try to compile it myself :-P.

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