![]() To my astonishment, it turns out that there are some Mac users who are actually siding with Adobe on this and defending the indefensible. This comment in turn led to a number of replies, including some from John Nack himself. This prompted someone in the “Comments” section to insert a while-you-are-at-it note about the “ hideous spinning bars” used as a cursor in Photoshop CS5. In addition, at the end of May Adobe’s own John Nack posted an article about an unrelated UI issue in Photoshop CS5 on his own blog. Then last week John Gruber posted a link to my blog post on Daring Fireball, which prompted a number of readers to send me additional feedback by e-mail. (What’s non-standard about it is not the animation per se, but the fact that it is used as a cursor replacing the standard mouse pointer.) As I wrote in my post, when you do certain actions that require the user to wait until they are completed before he can resume his interaction with the software, such as opening a large file in Photoshop CS5, while Photoshop forces you to wait, it changes the mouse cursor from the standard pointing arrow to a completely non-standard “spinning wheel” animation based on the indeterminate wait animation: ![]() Two weeks ago, I wrote a post about a shockingly bad UI choice made by the Adobe engineers who developed the new Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) series of applications.
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