Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Saving Renders. Yes... I am this stupid.

MacMyers opened this issue on Dec 06, 2011 ยท 35 posts


ElZagna posted Mon, 12 December 2011 at 12:06 AM

Users should never apologize or blame themselves for poor usability design on the part of the developers. Everybody who has ever tried to save the results of a render for the first time probably experienced this same frustration. I know I did.

Saving the image that you went to all the trouble of creating is one of the most basic and fundamental things you will ever do with a product like this. Really, that's the essential purpose of the entire software. Yet the "Save my Damn Picture" command is buried in with a bunch of other functions that most users will never use or care about. Even once you stumble upon it, it seems so out of place that you wonder if it is gong to actually do what you are hoping it will do.

This is another example of what happens when you let developers design the interface. Only a developer woud think in terms of exporting an image. A user would think, OK, I've created my image now I want to save it. I'll bet 95% of the users who tried to save their first image expected there to be some kind of File>Save Image... menu function.



OS: Windows 10 64-bit, Poser: 10