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To: Frances who wrote (2090)	1/22/1998 10:54:00 AM
From: Pete Mason	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3111

>> It's a good move to have a unified UI among Adobe apps << I like the idea of commonalities between interfaces, but in practice most companies take that good idea and go too far with it. Frequently, some of the apps are left with bad shortcuts and conventions, in deference to the more popular ones (for example, in Application A, I want to do an operation very frequently, but I have no decent shortcut key because Photoshop has pre-empted it.). Corel did this to hilarious effect with version 7 (I think) of their suite, in which the paint application had practically no sensible shortcuts because DRAW was using most of them--yeah, they had a common UI and common shortcuts (which made very impressive demos at PC Mag, I'm sure), but the resulting UI was good only for Draw! Not saying that Adobe is going to bugger it all up to that extent, but some of the Illustrator feedback I've heard indicates some users are very annoyed. If you spend the majority of your time in one app, you'll be less than happy to find out lots of things you've come to know and love have changed for the benefit of other programs you use a lot less frequently... >> Unified UI will also help Adobe to the strategy of a graphic suite << Maybe... but since Adobe is the undisputed graphics corporation _already_, one has to wonder what they hope to gain by it. "We'll be even more the undisputed graphics corporation!!"?? IMHO, what usually goes wrong with the big "unify the UI's" movements is that they usually find some Interface Guru Who Knows All to lead it, and this person is typically unsullied by actual user contact. Also, IMO, the unified UI sounds really really great to out-of-touch execs and board members, but typically brings a decidedly mixed result to the unsuspecting users. But I actually am in favor of it, in small appropriate doses. I guess this is a bit off topic, oops, -- Pete