Menus and controls placed in very confusing ways
Since the UI redesign, I'm finding the app much harder to use, and can't work out the logic for the placement of most of the controls.
Referring to attached screenshot:
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In the top left we have a menu that looks just like a program icon. It isn't at all obvious that this is a menu, nor do I have any idea what to expect in that menu.
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In the top right we have another set of controls. The rightmost are standard controls related to the window itself, then two related to the app, a save button and a menu - why these two groups have been placed together I don't know. I expected to find the save button close to the scan button in the top left. Given the menu button looks like one (unlike the top left menu), I expect to find "all the other stuff", but some of it is in the top left menu. Only "preferences" is duplicated in both (why that one?).
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"Start again" bottom left - I would have expected to find this close to the "Scan" button
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Center bottom - this group of control relates to editing what is in front of me (rotating, cropping, deleting), so this at least makes some sense (Apart from the fact that "re-order pages" is hidden in the top right menu, it belongs somewhere close to "deleting").
The end result is that my mouse has to visit 3 (or 4) distinct regions of the app, mostly in the extreme corners, to do the most basic thing - scan a series of documents:
- Top left to start scanning
- Middle bottom to edit (if needed)
- Top right to save
- Bottom left to start a blank document ready for scanning next document, then immediately up to the top left to start scanning again.
It's almost maximally pessimized in terms of mouse movements needed!
With the old UI, these 3 actions were all next to each other, in a logical order. Can we go back to the old UI please, or something very like it? What actual usability issues motivated the change of the placement of all these controls? It doesn't feel like the new UI has actually been used in earnest by the person who designed it, or they would have changed it back very quickly.