tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post14125730821622693..comments2009-10-01T15:10:37.796-04:00Hank Williamsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-18856808126399426822009-10-01T15:10:37.796-04:002009-10-01T15:10:37.796-04:00I don&#39;t know what the heck is going with Photoshop.<br />I have been a user since Photoshop 5, and now using CS4 is just bullshit. The interface is bloated with a lot of useless things, and I always click by accident there.<br />At this rate I&#39;m going to try paint.net.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-36795952798103652912009-05-06T17:46:21.420-04:002009-05-06T17:46:21.420-04:00NEW YORK SUCKS BADLYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-52428783004977910042008-12-05T15:24:07.529-05:002008-12-05T15:24:07.529-05:00AMEN! Photoshop does suck. It's great if you have hundreds of hours of experience with it and can do it in your sleep. If not, Photoshop says "F.U, Pal. I ain't telling you how to do this, and you won't be able to figure it out on your own, either." The UI is horrible, the instructions are nonexistent, and the help file is a circular, self-reflexive piece of crap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-72062375583637201132008-01-23T08:59:48.069-05:002008-01-23T08:59:48.069-05:00Juan,<BR/><BR/>First of all thank you for making me one of your favorites. That is awesome!<BR/><BR/>Regarding the point about experts versus noobs, my view is this. All things relating to the human experience are on a bell curve. The goal in any design is to hit the meaty part of the bell curve for your design. In other words using the 80/20 rule, you want the 80 not the 20. Unless your market *is* the 20. There is nothing wrong with this because narrowly targeting markets should allow you to charge more or more deeply penetrate a segment. But for mainstream products, designing something that works for *most* people should generally be the goal, and my theories are tied to that goal.Hank Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592098931050346414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-77524898353821971682008-01-22T19:36:51.071-05:002008-01-22T19:36:51.071-05:00I certainly agree with your point of view, but while I was reading the post series something that didn't quite fit was bothering me. There is another dimension from where you can look at the same problem, efficency. Efficency is a very practical concept in my opinion that leads to linear thinking most of the time, but picture this, take a good ol' mainframe user (not programmer) and give him the best UI you can ever imagine. I think he will stick his terminal and continue mumbling weird mainframe command, and I also think that this is not (entirely) due to his stubborness, it has to do with a clear difference between the entry level and the pro level. When you are a pro you just want a commandline that can keep up with your amazingly fast typing of the most bizzare combination of commands, while when you are a newbie you need the application's guidance and not a 2000 pages manual full of commands and constraints. What a large comment, this will probably have to end up in a blog. But in the end, how do you think the difference between entry level and the pro level fits in your idea? There is an interesting article by Tuomo Valkonen somewhere at http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/. Cheers, and you are in my favourites list too!Juannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-82284207551868778532008-01-20T17:50:36.149-05:002008-01-20T17:50:36.149-05:00Hi,<BR/><BR/>Part II lacks a link to this part, for those reading from part I ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com