[Color UI?]

Yeah, I hate the dark UI.  It just looks amateurish.  And having to squint to see if an option is enabled or not is not something I intend on doing for very long.  Disabling the dark UI is the first thing I tried to change when I started Affinity Designer.  Still haven't found a way to do it.  Is it even possible?

 

Back in the day Microprose (if I remember correctly - might have been EA) had an art team who loved working in a darkened room all day long.  Their artwork looked amazing - in that room.  But when you looked at it pretty much anywhere else in the world, all the detail was immediately lost and everything was too dark.  They wasted months redoing everything in the end.

[File Save as and Export should be merged]

This "design choice" isn't very consistent though.

 

"File > Open" can open any supported file; "File > Save As" can only save Affinity format files.

 

To be consistent, you should have File > Open only open Affinity files, and then add a File > Import option.

 

And once you do that, you'll realise how bad a design choice this really is.  The Export option shouldn't exist in its current state.  Save As should allow the user to save in any supported file format.  Which is pretty much how all other software works.