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New Blender UI - The Proposal

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  • Presented by Andrew Price, Blender Guru
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Andrew Price proposes a comprehensive redesign of Blender's user interface to improve its usability and workflow.

Join the discussion: blenderguru.com/new-blender-ui-proposal This video outlines my proposed solutions to the current UI problems addressed in Parts 1 and 2. UPDATE: After reflection, this proposal had some serious flaws. Check out my followup presentation at the Blender Conference: youtube.com/watch?v=6aIA2LaB2Iw

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What people say. Cited as a major turning point that influenced the modernization of Blender's user interface in later versions.

mastaxon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released”

> Andrew Price's improved UI mock-up did look pretty amazing link to this video if anyone's looking E: After watching it, I have to say it has a lot of good ideas, although the dynamic ribbon stuff is probably too much (how did I get here, how do I go back?)
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wlesieutreon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate”

I think you mean either 2.5 or 2.8. 2.49 was the last one with the really inscrutable old UI, 2.5 was a big overhaul but still had a lot of basic functionality buried behind hotkeys or menus, and 2.8 is the relatively recent one with a lot of that basic functionality exposed. I don't follow the blender development process too closely, but I think Blender Guru's videos kicked off a lot of the 2.8 design work: link to this video Along with lots of discussion elsewhere as the actual redesign was underway link
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franciscopon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Blender 3.0”

…for search, etc. The two main criticisms that I've found is that first the interface is very confusing (but this has been improved constantly in the last 5-10 years!). As a personal opinion, I believe this video was a big inflection point (Blender seemed stubborn before the video, but this video at the very least softened the opinion of Blender): link to this video The second one is that it's not "industry standard", but as more and more people are using it for hobbies and indie projects, this will def change eventually, so I'm not too worried about that as well.…
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