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>Why we have to separate “Export” from “Save” is another terrible UX that only makes sense to developers. I'm actually torn on this one. I can see where you'r
by robinsonb5 3y ago
>Why we have to separate “Export” from “Save” is another terrible UX that only makes sense to developers.
I'm actually torn on this one. I can see where you're coming from, but I can also see value in the conceptual separation between saving a file in a form which can reloaded with full editability, and exporting it in a foreign format which effectively freezes it in its current form. Commingling those two concepts does cause significant confusion in non-technical people.
Having said that, I still swear whenever muscle-memory from 20 years ago tricks me into trying to File->Save a .tif in GIMP, and instead of doing what I want, it lectures me about how I should use File->Export instead, like some bratty kid playing "Simon Says".