Fix Button Style (Designer V2 iPad)

[MoonaticDestiny]

The style for the buttons on the designer V2 ipad app BADLY need to be fixed. 

You just cant tell what buttons are selected. Even if you are able to tell, its still badly designed and confusing. 

You dont use a light gray color to indicate a button is not selected & you dont use a darker gray color to indicate a button is selected. 

Using a light gray color for a button on a dark background only indicates that button as highlighted and selected. So when all your buttons are light gray color, theyre ALL active and selected. You can't do that. You're confusing the user. Everything shouldn't be highlighted or selected. Dont use this light gray color for your buttons.

You also dont use a dark gray color to indicate a button is selected because when something is selected its usually a lighter color to show that its been highlighted or selected. So making it a dark gray is the opposite. Its been......dehighlited. Not highlighted. Even if you were to stick with the dark gray color to show that the button is selected it would conflict with the other light gray buttons because they too are selected. So pretty much all your buttons, right now, are selected. Its shouldnt be like that.

Its so bad. 

The solution is the color blue. Blue is a good color indicator to show that something has been selected. Think of hyperlinks. You have normal black text and then you have blue text. They're blue to indicate that you can click on them and select them. So by making your button blue you can indicate to the user that button has been selected but it wont work if your other buttons are a light gray color because both are selected now. This blue button will only work if your other buttons are a deeper gray. 

Please review the photo attached to this post. I show you how v1 did their buttons vs how v2 does their buttons. V1 is the way to go. You use a soft gray color for your non selected buttons on a dark gray background to show that there are buttons and then you use the color blue to indicate that a button has been selected. 

You had it right in v1, but I dont know who made this bad design decision. Please fix it, go back to v1, and bring back the color blue. Blue is the answer. 

Please also use the color blue in your dials. Right now, theyre like a light gray colors. You can see them on the "new document" layout under "Dimensions." 

[Meliora spero]

If Serif simply didn’t care, that would be one thing — but what’s worse is that Serif apparently has no idea what they’re doing wrong. It’s the embodiment of the phrase adding insult to injury. 

You’re right. It’s so bad.