On May 17, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Alan Horkan wrote:
It isn't perfect but think about it a bit more and you might realise they must have had some reason for doing it that way.
Could it perhaps be because for the most part they used to design UIs very poorly (by todays standards) in the late 80s? You should take into account that Illustrator is almost 20 years old now and changing their UI isn't really an option for them because they've trained their audience to do things a certain way.
And there are two other large factors for Adobe's UI design that must be kept in mind
1) "I don't care if this sucks, we need it thus-and-so so that we can sell more copies of Photoshop"
2) "who cares how if functions, the marketing department said we need to do these so they can put it on brochures"