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Pieter as a fellow designer, I'm by no means blind to the idea of how much time it takes to implement a new idea into a system.  In fact, it is the chief complaint of all design professionals that people do not account for the amount of time it takes to actually develop something.  None of my comments had anything to do with the time aspect.  Rather that sometimes the simplest of things can get overlooked when taking into account higher end product delivery.  But the truth is that simplicity in implementation and user interface is probably the most important aspect to a software, and probably some of the harder to develop.

 

For example, Revit's Schedule formatting system is clunky at best, and extremely limited.  Thus the schedules it produces while powerful leave much to be desired when it comes to graphic representation.  Which may seem trivial but the truth is user interface is probably the most important aspect of any well presented system, whether it be on the computer or on paper.

 

The word editing tools would be much more powerful if they just allowed for basic editing and font control that has existed since the 1980s.  So you can attack all you want.  But all I hear is this: "yeah it's a good idea, but I'm too stressed out by other good ideas, so I don't want to deal with it."  You think it is trivial so you treat it as such.  When graphical representation, user interface, and client interaction is literally the reason my clients come back to me over and over again.

 

So sure I could go vote up other ideas.  Or Autodesk could just as easily do a query for the many inquiries there are asking for better user interface when it comes to word processing and scheduling.  And probably see that many people are requesting it.  I don't need to do their work for them, I pay them a lot of money for the software, that's their job not mine.  For a piece of software that I have spent close to $250,000 implementing in my office you bet I'm going to be critical.  I'm paying Autodesk a lot of money for it, it better be worth it.