Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI
What it is
Andrew Price presents at the Blender conference on the problems, politics and possible fixes for Blender's user interface, followed by a full Q&A. He argues that an interface upgrade is overdue.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as an example of how hard it is to reconcile UX views in open source communities, and as the start of a redesign discussion.
- 2 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2013, last 2017
What HN commenters said
“which is also interesting viewing.”
Follow-up presentation with re-thinking on the same subject.
sethrin, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released”
“Andrew Price explains better in his talk about Blender redesing than I could”
Explains Blender redesign; UX lessons apply to programming languages.
zzzcpan, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: blender, ux, open source, interface redesign, 3d software
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