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Former Member
4 years agoNew 1Password Layout
Hi 1Password: the new format for 1Password is exceedingly difficult to use. Plus, it takes significantly more mouse clicks/movements to select something than the previous version. The new left side t...
Former Member
4 years agoAgree with the author and with the similar topics on the forum.
It seems that v8 has failed in many ways: GUI, Search, Functionality. I had to roll back to v7 just because v8 is ridiculous and looks like designed by wrong people - it has a number of flaws with GUI basics and design in general, probably wasn't tested and Q/A'ed thoroughly. I'm sorry, but it's terrible. It appears that 1Password do not have an art director for this kind of job, or they do have, but it's just a manager maybe?
Several examples:
1. Unjustified huge interligne between the items
2. New fat and cartoonish style that does not look professional (the cartoonish style for the mobile version is perfect though - see how different people do their jobs)
3. The useless left panel
4. Many unaligned elements in the visual layout, elements are randomly located here and there with no readable logic, thus chaotic
5. Terrible search that makes having your own Favourite items meaningless - what's the point, if you cannot search through the Favourites list as before? Oh, there might be a special key combination to achieve that? Why does it need additional key combinations, elements or steps to be taken - they make things more complicated than before... This is not an improvement.
6. The new search applies your search words to the whole list of items and never brings what I need... The Favourites in v7 were day-to-day easy-to-use items - easy to search through them only. That was my own group that I could work with. With v8 I was dumped into the search results across all shared items (including other vaults) and had to scroll... scroll... scroll... scroll... to never find what I needed. If you have over 1000 items across tens of vaults, you will understand.
7. The new star icon for Favourites... It's not easy to catch with a corner of your eye even on the item with a placeholder default icon. If you have a service or product icon/vendor logo, and it's a bit coloured, consider you've lost your favourite because it becomes invisible among the other items... Try to find a green tree in a green forest...
8. The top panel - you put so many elements in there mimicking the Windows visual solutions (which are far away from a good design themselves), so lost yourself. In order to move 1Password window across several monitors as I used to be doing easily, I had to expand the window way wider, just because there wasn't enough active space in the top panel I could grab with my mouse... So goodbye the compact window size.
These are just basics. Kids mistakes. But your designers are not kids.
On top of this, the designers should have the proper experience of using 1P on an everyday basis themselves...
Sorry.
I cannot recommend migrating to v8; it's better to stay on v7 for many reasons.