RE: Acrobat 5

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 3/12/2001 08:42 AM, Scott Turner wrote:
>>...
>And to add to this, why is Adobe mimicing the Microsoft Office suite interface? It has to be one of the worst interfaces designed. The worst software interface design award goes to Lotus cc:Mail. For the Windows side it was as if some software engineer heard that icons were "good," and put icons everywhere for everything.
>
>Are we to expect that everything in Acrobat 5 will be buried three to four levels deep?
>
>Dov, considering that I have no way to see this interface at the moment, could you comment on it?
>
>Scott


Scott,

Why do you assume something very negative?

The user interface for Acrobat 5 is no deeper than that of Acrobat 4.
In fact, in many cases, it is or can be shallower. You do have the choice,
if you have the screen real estate, of permanently expanding multi-function
fly-away tools, moving tools off of the tools bar into separate palettes,
etc.

User interface issue discussions can get like political or religious
discussions and I will personally stay out of the what-is-better discussion.
No matter what UI you design, there are critics who will like something 
different and consider what you've done to be the worst design ever. And
of course, what that critic likes, others revile. I do know that internal 
users at Adobe have not sensed any dramatic change from Acrobat 4 and positive
reaction has overwhelmed any negative reaction to the UI changes.

        - Dov


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