sethrinon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released”
Mr. Price did some re-thinking and a follow-up presentation on that same subject, which is also interesting viewing. link to this video
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Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI
Blender
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- Presented by Andrew Price, creator of BlenderGuru
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
62K views13 years ago2 recommendations
Software designSimplicity and complexityOpen source
Andrew Price discusses the usability challenges of Blender's interface and the community politics of redesigning open-source software.
Is it time for an interface upgrade? This presentation covers the problems, politics and possible solutions to this UI debacle. Includes a full Q&A at the end. About Andrew Price Owner of BlenderGuru.com, and fulltime Blender tutor. I've written for 3D World Magazine and been featured in books, magazines and websites. My passion is artwork and teaching, but also marketing and problem solving.Why it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Engineers point to this talk to illustrate the challenges of open-source UI design and the community resistance to making software easier to use.
zzzcpanon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released”
Andrew Price explains better in his talk about Blender redesing than I could: link to this video Many things in UX design apply to programming languages as well.
chestnut-treeon Hacker News • Mentions
On “How Blender started, twenty years ago”
…reates so much resentment. (Ubuntu is another example of this). Here is a Youtube video of a presentation at this years Blender Conference (Oct 2013) on improving the Blender UI. The Q&A at the end of the session is a bit depressing: the audience seem resistant to change and feel that making Blender easier to use would mean "dumbing down" the app. link to this video…
chestnut-treeon Hacker News • Mentions
On “OpenHatch – Find open source projects to contribute to; find mentors”
…esentation, one audience member (rightfully) says we shouldn't treat users as idiots, but then adds that making Blender easier to use might entail "dumbing down" the app - this elicits a round of applause from the audience. Dependending on your point of view, that's a perfectly legitimate concern or a depressing misunderstanding about ease-of-use: link to this video My impression is that there's a fractious relationship between design/UX and development in the open source community that hasn't changed much over th…
greenknighton Hacker News • Mentions
On “Autodesk announces 925 layoffs”
Andrew price went on to say that his proposed UI was wrong -- link to this video Since then there has been a UI team, which has tackled the low hanging fruit... the bigger design changes probably will come over the next year or so during their 2.8 revamp... where they tackle the bigger issues with blender.
greenknighton Hacker News • Mentions
On “Blender 2.8 project status”
link He followed up with a actual UX designer, who pretty much told him that his proposal was the wrong way to think about it (objectively, not subjectively). He admitted that his proposal at the blender conference was more of a discussion about the way of the future -- link to this video After that, he stopped pushing so hard on the UI/UX problems of blender. I believe he is still part of the UI committee, but isnt pushing it as hard in his podcasts as he realises he doesn't have the answers.