Hi, I’m experiencing constant crashes. It literally crashes when I hover over the component list, place a slider on the canvas, or sometimes just leave it open for a while. At the moment, it is pretty much unworkable for me. Is anyone else experiencing this?
I haven’t been able to test it properly because it crashes every two minutes, but I have to say that I’m deeply disappointed with the direction the UI and UX have taken.
It feels more like a playground, or a UX designer’s wet dream, than a serious piece of professional software. There are so many things that feel completely unnecessary, overengineered, and overdesigned.
For example, the circular fade effect when hovering over a menu tab is extremely distracting. It may look cool, but it adds absolutely nothing to the workflow or makes the software any better to use.
The sparkles when connecting wires are another example. Again, completely unnecessary visual noise.
Then there is the whole moon-and-sun arc animation when changing between light and dark mode. Like, what is this? A full animated celestial transition just to change the display mode? Come on. It doesn’t look serious at all.
Even the font chosen for the components feels far from ideal to me. I understand that this is more of a personal preference, but I really don’t like it. Combined with the inconsistent component colors, everything just feels visually chaotic and much more playful than professional.
At the same time, there are actual UI issues that affect usability. For example, when dragging components in dark mode, they appear in light mode until they are placed on the canvas. That is the kind of thing I would expect the UI work to focus on, not adding a silly spark when I connect two wires.
The zoomed-out components are also incredibly distracting, and the shifting animation makes them even worse.
I really hope that GH2 comes with user customization so that we can have our own themes…
I love what David has done for GH in general, and I have a huge amount of respect for him and his work. But I also think he has always had a bit of an obsession with UI and UX, and this feels like he was simply allowed to give in to every possible design idea and do whatever he wanted. It is what happens when too much time and creative freedom go unchecked without someone stepping in and asking whether all of this actually improves the software.
The entire interface currently feels more like a kids’ playground than serious professional software.
I really hope GH2 includes proper customization options so users can create their own themes, disable all these unnecessary effects, change the fonts and colors, and adapt the interface to how they actually work.