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as an example to demonstrate how ridiculous it was that you'd introduced the presumption of forced usage... something that wasn't previously mentioned by anyone, explicitly or implicitly. Why did you do that?

I didn't, that's why I introduced it... as an example of forced usage. Are you a bot?

When did forced usage (like, let's say, mandates for masking and vaccines) become a part of this conversation?

This is a part of the FX, and it's not pasted.

Duplicate could be [command + d] But Affinity copied Adobe's [command + j] ... that's the extent of Affinity's inspiration from other sources for usability - they ask "what does Adobe do?" and that's it. Good for those coming from Adobe muscle memory. Not so good for progressing digital creativity. Affinity could have decided to care about usability progression and flow. They copied Adobe, instead.

Some call this "toxicity" Bad faith attempts to discredit a person's point of view by deliberately avoiding their overarching points and instead isolating and mischaracterising is a form of straw manning - is what it is. We could take this OP in good faith and face value, ascertain and compile what other aspects of print design and subsequent workings with printers and print technologies are ponderous, impossible and/or difficult within Affinity's suite, thereby forewarning others and putting Serif on notice as to what needs to be done to make their products better. That'd be positive and lead to vastly better outcomes for everyone.

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Go for it buddy. Promise to not mischaracterise anymore, too?

This was used as an example of the many self contradictory EXAMPLES of a general and common (yes, both) lack of consideration and care in the design of the UI and UX in (you guessed it) design software. The UX of these apps deserves criticism - it's a bigger failing than the lack of features as improving the UI and UX would improve the lives of all users. If you can't see that you've never used well designed apps and are suffering from some form of Stockholm syndrome without realising it. Further, attempting to refute a serious argument by mischaracterising an example of the symptoms that propagate from the general lack of care and design only makes you look like a pedant without insight into contexts and wholes. And it's patently clear the OP knows far more about complex and artful print work than you do, so there's no need to attempt to talk down to them, or anyone else. Ironically.

There's a vastly better and faster way, hire a principled, considerate designer, that also happens to love end users and digital design, and empower them to make wholesale decisions on UI ---- AND ---- UX User research is only necessary if you don't do this, and only works if you're willing to hire an expert in both asking questions AND understanding the responses AND is empowered to make AND correct wholesale decisions that should have been made correctly at the UI and UX design phase. None of this is going to happen. Just take a look at the rate of UI and UX fixes and improvements in version 1, then slow that down by a considerable margin because they're now concurrently working on 3x apps on 3x platforms.

Sounds like it was unlikely to have been valid, ever.

They got the sales they wanted, and then some... So there's no need for them to consider the problems to be anything other than gripes in the forums.

Here's a special lettered one with extra depth: NPM.afdesign

A couple in colors: Buttons2.afdesign

And even more...ButtonTypes02.afdesign

More Buttons in pseudo 3D:ButtonTypes03.afdesign

Lotta Effects:ButtonTypes01.afdesign

File included. Much effects, so very slow to edit: ButtonTypes01.afdesign

I know what you're getting at, but these are more akin to tricky reputation discrediting. They're attempting to suggest the OP is wrong about the bike shed, therefore he's wrong in his views on nuclear plant design. Or something to that effect. The bigger truth is that the lack of care about the small details of UI/UX are indicative and symptomatic of the malaise that's caused the exact macro problems with print the OP is raising.

Everyone aims to please you... your highness. Can you list the things that can be posted, and how they can be worded such that you won't comment?

Full employment, guaranteed. "The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."

How did they do it before computers?

Why project so much?

What you're seeing is the exact opposite to a deep emotional connection to the program.