But again, that is exactly how it works. When you create a new shape, the shape is automatically selected and the style panel automatically changed to SHAPE mode, so you can directly edit the style of the shape without using the select shape tool or anything.mmmaarten wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 2:50 pm
Why do we need to use a 'shape select'-tool if we just drawn the shape and Moho might expect us to change the style directly after that / knows what is selected? As that's IMO the most logical thing to do after drawing a shape. It might be made for some special workflow, but it's not my workflow and I wonder what that workflow might be and what benefits there are to it.
About the UI, I totally agree it is overly confusing for begginers for several reasons, the most important one being that the same word "styles" is used for two different things, the non-saved styles (the default one and the shape one) and the saved styles, forcing me to say "saved" each time to be clearer but Moho UI doesn't even do that.
If a style is a combination of the visual properties a shape can have, then saved styles should have their own word. As an example, in other softwares they use color for the color property but swatch for the saved colors, and that's way clearer.
Another issue is that the most important words don't stand up too much. The panel mode names are in ALL CAPS but should be bold too. The SHAPE one has a clear meaning, and the DEFAULT one too, but when the user sees STYLE is like reading nothing "aren't they all styles?" and the only word that gives a hint, the specific name of the saved style like "skin" doesn't stand out at all.