Macromedia Central looks good.

So Macromedia has apparently allowed beta testers to release MM approved screen shots of the new Macromedia Central, and it sure does look good.

The earlier interface was more Outlook like and had the left panels that listed the applications, but in the new interface it looks like they have shifted the application list to top and are using bigger buttons. This is much much better from a Fitt’s Law point of view as it will allow faster access to the applications. Also there is now a separate console. There are both advantages and disadvantages of having a separate console. The console is good from a space utilization point of view, however when to comes to ‘multiple window handling’ the lesser the better. In fact, I’ve come to love the Firebird tabs a lot and believe dockable tabs makes for much better handling (hope Adobe is not waiting to pounce- presonally I believe patents on UI should be stopped, but that is another post.) But since this is going to be a single console, it might not be such a big issue. The notification indicator is also quite prominent and should work well.

Overall I think this is coming along very well, and I can’t wait to start developing for it…

Posted by Navneet at July 30, 2003 04:04 PM | TrackBack | Comments disabled due to spam