Welcome Screen usability
Your startup screen breaks one of the basic rules of usability : What can I interact with?
Everything is gray. Titles, desc text, links and buttons.
PROBLEM: The layout is fine, but you have turned your startup screen into 'mystery meat' navigation. What can I click on? What is a call to action? Do I have to hover over everything to figure this out?
Think about this. Also, gray links are historically 'disabled' color. Whether it's a button or a link, it usually means 'disabled'. I understand that shades of grey are the new cool design thing, but for your interactive user (not print), this is a bad path to go down.
Screenshot of startup screen and your website for comparison. What can I click on? What do you want me to click on? Hmmmm.
We’ve updated our welcome screen to be more vibrant and have a cleaner call to action. In future releases, you’ll see some additional changes that will make our intent more clear.
Thanks for pointing this out!
-Elaine
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James commented
I think their could be some improvements but overall I love it! Especially compared to your Photoshop screen shot and all other app start up screens to be honest. Yes a touch of colour for links may help but essentially everything is clickable bar ight grey upper case headers. I really dislike the change in the start-up screens that have been introduced in Adobe's other apps.