Global on/off feature switches
I'm a design professional and I've been using Photoshop and Illustrator for decades.
I have no use for AI features. I do not want them. I do not need them.
I never need to "Share for Review" or "Edit in Firefly Boards."
I have no desire to see / manage notifications.
I can add/remove tools from the tool panel. I can customize all the things that appear in the control bar. But I cannot hide / remove features like share, notifications, and generative AI.
My pencil tool has a blue "notification" dot on it, which I cannot get rid of.
I'm begging you all to reconsider the implementation of new features, new UI, and changing any decade+ paradigms. I know how to use this app, and I don't want to keep re-learning it.
I've actively started looking at alternative design tools for the first time in my life, all because this seems to show no sign of slowing. Prove me wrong and keep my subscription, or keep risking it with every release.
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Louie Mantia
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Yes, I did draw with it. I also opened the options by double-clicking. Nothing.
If the goal of consolidating and concentrating votes is an effective way to solve problems, I'm for it. But as I said, years going by without fixing makes me skeptical that this is a meaningful method to enact the change users are requesting.
I'd argue it just makes it easier to ignore one thread than fifty.
Perhaps the team should prioritize minimizing introducing new problems by tackling the existing ones. These tools have not needed new features in maybe ten years, but they have withered instead.
Live your life, do what you have to do. But I cannot be convinced this is effective. My patience is running out while I watch other design apps do what Photoshop and Illustrator can do without years going by pretending that these issues don't exist.
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Speaking of Pencil — have you tried to actually draw with it? Double-click the tool icon to open the tool options dialog?
I’m with you about the customization and less bloat.
The way I personally treat requests and reports is to have less copies, because it makes less fragmentation and thus makes vote count more concentrated. Their inception dates matter little — some of the QOL things Ai recently got (the small things most of us care about) were requested 9 years ago or earlier, before UV. What matters I think is that when the team gets bandwidth to pick one up, it’s heavy enough to persuade those who decide to pick one up, and a solid story is there for them to agree it matters. Plus it’s important to see if the flow of votes, something that is visible from the inside.
That’s why I merge (and split occasionally), correct titles, add details, comments, cross-link...Here’s 2 more:
— Centralized Notification History: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49849377 (not solved with the hub they made at all)
— Warnings Popup Manager: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40666039 -
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The first link you posted is vague enough to cover this, sure. It's from 2017 which doesn't isnpire confidence.
The second link is definitely the same issue, from 2023 which also doesn't inspire much confidence.
And yes, the pencil blue dot doesn't go away, so it seems stuck. It could be the same thing.
I guess my "complaint" here is not the symptoms, but the root cause. Adding features without consideration to the implications they cause, letting them fester for 3–7 years is painful.
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There are two related requests:
1. A more general Deactivate unused functions / tools / filters / plugins — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32612413
2. A more dedicated An ability to disable all generative tools and options, like Text to Vector Graphic, Generative Pattern... — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47462738
I think yours apply to both, really. The blue dot problem (Ai requires us to use a tool or a command or a function that has it to make it go away) is a separate problem I don’t recall anyone reporting, however a single report it being stuck exists: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50453091 — is it the same problem?
