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I feel as though early 2000s was the peak of UI, they took peak performance and made it look good enough

• app4soft 6y ago
  What about AzPainter[0] UI? [0] https://git.io/azpainter https://git.io/azpainter
  • chmod775 6y ago
    First impression: I don't know that software, never used it, not sure how it relates to the GP's post. I just felt like commenting. It's not pretty and looks cluttered, but those are just looks. Those aside, it's probably perfectly serviceable for getting work done. I like UIs where everything is just there (or even where you put it), and you don't need to dig in submenus that may even make you wait for animations. You can build effective muscle memory for this. It also appears it will let you make use of multiple monitors easily. It just doesn't look great because font sizes and spacing is really inconsistent across types of UI elements: buttons get lots of space to breathe with big paddings and margins for some reason, any bar has very little space and gets a tiny font, lists have fonts way larger than everything else, ...
  • drivingmenuts 6y ago
    Looks similar to the Corel interfaces, which were nigh-unusable if you were used to Adobe.
  • Guest42 6y ago
    Perfect, exactly what I was thinking, also was reminded of some of the old erp systems that were fast as lightning and supported thousands of users without breaking, a little on the busy side but refreshing to have all the features accessible
  • HelloNurse 6y ago
    The AzPainter screenshot is meant to showcase as many tools as possible. For real usage, most of them would be folded away or completely hidden.