Black and White impenetrable icons

[bwood]

Agree. I did initially enjoy the new UI, but I do miss whether somethings clicked or not. I don’t need a splash of color, but a little highlight that Acorn shown would be nice.

[Merlinski]

Posted about this icon set only the other month.

Simply put, in my opinion colour helps the brain identify tools and status way faster and increases workflow speed without having to rely on shapes alone.

This mono-tone UI is trend over function.

I would welcome the return of colour cues to help my workflow, the sooner the better.

I would even go so far as to say that newcomers to the program are less likely to find it as approachable as previous versions and one the main USP's of Xara has always been how user friendly and easy to pick up it actually is - so surely, the USER interface is a huge part of this. There is a halfway on this issue, a design somewhere in between full colour and minimalist mono, as it stands I think it's gone too far.

Cheers

[Merlinski]

Even my little magnet is all grey everyone knows magnets are red, my poor snap-to icon is all boring grey.