OrCAD

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with OrCAD, 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 4 complaints

Wire drawing needs Ctrl+W instead of W, slowing work with many small annoyances2026-02-24
UI is horrid and barely usable without paying for training2023-06-14
UI was unintuitive, requiring muscle memory to use well2023-06-14
Commenter found the tool a shambles to use and avoids it; poor usability implied2017-03-31