I don't understand why there are so many commands that cannot be found relatively easily. I thought one point about the ribbon was that it gave a lot more space for commands compared with the old style menus.
What I find frustrating is that I don't find anything intuitive about why certain commands fall under certain ribbons, in fact there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason or logic to it. Some examples. Layers is under the Home ribbon. Why not under the view menu? Doesn't one want to "view" layers? The rectangle, ellipse, line, shadow and on and on are under Home. Wouldn't those be under "Design"? And where is "Protection"? Under the developer tab?! You got to be kidding me. I don't mind that those commands are under home but it would seem to me that the logical UI should be that Home is where all the commands are that you need most frequently, but the commands there should
still show up under one of the other ribbons.
I never cease to be amazed my MS and their lack of good user design. I find this reminiscent of the 8 options under the Windows Off command in Vista.
I'm also frustrated that there are so many small improvements they could have made but didn't. It's a small thing but 5 years in the making and they still didn't make it so that you could arrange the order of background pages? Do any of the programmers actually use the program day to day? I doubt it. End of rant.
In spite of my complaints I think it's a clear improvement. My favorite feature is the alignment feature where as you hover over the alignment button you see a preview of the result. That is brilliant UI design, if only the entire program reflected that.
One thing I was really hoping for was a way to group pages, for instance under the drawing explorer it would be awesome if we could group pages by folder. When a drawing has 50 pages as some of mind do, it would be nice to be able to group them by category.
