Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI

Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by 0x37 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:02AM (#33244329)

I really like the new UI (and all the other similar modern UIs) and I just can't pretend like I dont.

I'm a very visual and a design oriented person and I want my tools to look good. If I'm going to spend countless hours using a product/tool I want to enjoy it's looks as well. Too many tools in my opinion are designed by people who want to maximize productivity with very utilitarian and practical user interfaces (which is great!) but don't seem to have enough care for making something that looks beautiful at the same time.

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Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by noir_lord on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:29AM (#33244501)

I was in the private beta for it, I went into it neutral and came out of it really liking it, all the keybinds remain the same and I already had turned off quite a lot of the old UI so for me it felt like what I already had but more refined.

As with all things design, it's open to a large degree of subjectivity.

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Re:Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI by ldng on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:33PM (#33253484)

Beautiful on top of productive and utilitarian : yes.

Beautiful instead of productive and utilitarian : absolutely NOT.

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