design critiques

let's rip apart the render queue module in after effects because it is genuinely horrid design :)

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This one is tough because on one hand it is a hot mess, but on the other it’s likely running a lot of legacy code under the hood, along with 30 year old UX patterns. Similar can be said about Photoshop and Illustrator.

Some modern alternatives have come up but they’ve too been influenced by these dated designs.

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You’re totally right! I do wonder how much of it is what you said + laziness as they dominate the market 🤔 

+1 on the modern tools taking bad inspo from AE, it’s like we can’t get away