Recently, I've been doing a lot of thinking about how padBoard 1.5 should look and behave. The user interface needs to be cleaned up, modernized and made more straightforward. To this end, I considered going with icons for all in-app functions. I then read some of John Gruber's thoughts on using a "floppy disk" icon for save, and I read this article:
http://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
which states that an original Apple design philosophy was to avoid icons as much as possible. To this end, padBoard will strive to be as similar to Apple apps (which people already know how to use) as possible with respect to icons, text buttons and what these UI elements mean. I'm interested to read what the readers of this blog think.
Also, padBoard 1.5 is definitely still in active development. Expect a blog post soon detailing all the new features in video format. All the old features I cited previously will be there, along with Layers and lots of other fun stuff. Make sure to tune into that soon!
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