Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI

Blender · 62.3K views · 2013-10-25 · 48:39

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Overview

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.

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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.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2013–2017

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UX & UI design Animation & visual effects

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sethrin · 2017-01 · Recommendation
Mr. Price did some re-thinking and a follow-up presentation on that same subject, which is also interesting viewing. [VIDEO]
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zzzcpan · 2017-01 · Recommendation
Andrew Price explains better in his talk about Blender redesing than I could: [VIDEO] Many things in UX design apply to programming languages as well.
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greenknight · 2016-11 · Reference
[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 -- [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.
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