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Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI

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.

Why HN readers recommended it

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.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Blender
Topic
software ui design
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2013–2017

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Mr. Price did some re-thinking and a follow-up presentation on that same subject, which is also interesting viewing. [VIDEO]

    sethrin on Hacker News · 2017-01
    In Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released
  • 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.

    zzzcpan on Hacker News · 2017-01
    In Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released

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