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Rethinkscape – A New UX/UI Proposal for Inkscape

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Re: Rethinkscape – A New UX/UI Proposal for Inkscape

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Post by smrtinsert »

Maybe it's not in a place where its easy to understand what is different, but here's what I would change - not a damn thing. Inkscape is one of a rare breed of program where almost everything is clear and discoverable. I really vote evolution more than revolution.

Re: Rethinkscape – A New UX/UI Proposal for Inkscape

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Post by SwellJoe »

smrtinsert wrote: post #2

Maybe it's not in a place where its easy to understand what is different, but here's what I would change - not a damn thing. Inkscape is one of a rare breed of program where almost everything is clear and discoverable. I really vote evolution more than revolution.

I agree. I used Inkscape for a while, then decided I needed "pro" tools, so bought Adobe CS, and learned Illustrator. Inkscape is just more obvious, to me. There's certainly some bias for me paused on having used Inkscape before Illustrator, but I used Corel Draw for longer than either and never was as comfortable with it as Inkscape. There were others along the way, as well, but Inkscape just stands out as the most usable for me.

Certainly, Illustrator is more powerful and complex, but many aspects are just utterly opaque and require a lot of googling to figure out. I regularly choose Inkscape over Illustrator, despite having ready access to both. Unless I need to share my work with someone who only has Illustrator I just tend to get more work done faster.

Re: Rethinkscape – A New UX/UI Proposal for Inkscape

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Post by thawkins »

SwellJoe wrote: post #4
smrtinsert wrote: post #2

Maybe it's not in a place where its easy to understand what is different, but here's what I would change - not a damn thing. Inkscape is one of a rare breed of program where almost everything is clear and discoverable. I really vote evolution more than revolution.

I agree. I used Inkscape for a while, then decided I needed "pro" tools, so bought Adobe CS, and learned Illustrator. Inkscape is just more obvious, to me. There's certainly some bias for me paused on having used Inkscape before Illustrator, but I used Corel Draw for longer than either and never was as comfortable with it as Inkscape. There were others along the way, as well, but Inkscape just stands out as the most…

Inscapes issues are not with its UI, but in some of its concepts, ie knowing the difference between an object and a path, perhaps making that more obvious, ie making the menues context sensative depending on what is selected. Too many menu options silently do nothing wjen tne wrong kind of item is selected. For a new user it makes discoverability slower as they often cant tell from the visuals what the item is.

Re: Rethinkscape – A New UX/UI Proposal for Inkscape

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Post by trymas »

does anybody of you feel that when this kind of UX/UI redesign project comes up it feels somewhat... bullshity (sorry for my words, but I could not find any better)? Especially when the README.md is a bunch of pictures of some dudes chilling out on a patio, etc. This gives zero confidence in the project.

Re: Rethinkscape – A New UX/UI Proposal for Inkscape

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Post by Xaviju »

I am one of the project creators. This was a last year project in our company innovation week (http://piweek.com/) but it never become a large project because it is hard to make changes to the

Inkscape UI if you are not a developer. So it was just a first draft to see if inkscape developers will like our ideas and we could help them to improve the UX/UI for future releases. It did not work and we just left the project.

The useful links you are looking for are: http://piweek.github.io/rethinkscape/ Docs: https://github.com/PIWEEK/rethinkscape/tree/master/docs Mockups:https://github.com/PIWEEK/rethinkscape/tree/master/mockups

Thanks!

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