Adobe Creative Suite

Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 15 threads.

People raised many different problems with Adobe Creative Suite, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 17 complaints

Must clear several promotional dialog boxes before starting any work2025-11-14
Added bloat makes the software slower for the same tasks it did before2025-05-13
Suite is bloated, slow and overly complex to use2022-04-08
Interface is not intuitive, so new users are confused and take a long time to become proficient2021-05-01
Users can't find working info on reinstalling older versions; searches hit dead ends2020-10-23
Subscription pricing model makes the software feel user-hostile2020-01-23
UI glitches with Windows 7 and 10 are very annoying2018-03-28
Inconsistent hotkeys across apps and odd cmd+tab behaviour from Photoshop2017-01-09
Icons are too abstract, so users can't tell what they represent2014-07-16
Photoshop and Illustrator are slow to launch and feel bloated and buggy2014-02-01
Upgrade links to CS6 redirect to Creative Cloud edition instead of the boxed product2013-10-03
Commenter finds the Adobe interface equally annoying to use as the alternative2013-05-07
Apps feel cluttered, and upgrade options are hard to understand without a manual2011-06-03
Clicking the Flash-based form crashes the tab with an 'Aw, Snap!' error2010-04-13
Empty popup appears on option change and must be clicked twice to dismiss2010-04-12
Empty dialog appears on load, page is slow, scroll wheel and back button don't work2010-04-12
Floating palettes overlap each other, covering content and each other2010-03-10