Feedback on Autodesk Inventor Interface

We want to know your thoughts and feedback on the changes made to the Autodesk Inventor user interface over the past 4 years.
What do you think of the Ribbon Bar interface, Marking Menus, Mini-Toolbars?
How do you interact with the interface and how does it help you?
This is your opportunity to tell the Product Managers and Developers of the product what you think and influence the future development of the Autodesk Inventor user interface.

To help collect your thoughts, the Autodesk Inventor team has put together this quick on-line survey for you to provide your thoughts and opinions.
Click on the link below to provide your feedback and thoughts...

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/autodeskinventorUI

Thanks for your time.
Bob

Comments

[andrew]

Since I missed the survey and have strong opinions on this, I'll drop them here:

Marking menu: tacky and annoying. looks like something managers can be happy about when they make presentations but sucks for users. Waste of developers' time; they should be improving the core product usability instead of features that look nice in marketing materials.

Mini-toolbar: includes all the above and worse. There is no way to turn it off, it always sits in the way, and is incomplete (inferior to redundant). Consequently, it hinders workflow. I'm sure managers love it because it's transparent.

Ribbon: tolerable so long as it's customizable. grouping is not always intuitive. No improvement in workflow, probably hindered.

I wish Autodesk would spend more time strengthening the weak but important features instead of adding these half-assed cosmetic additions. Makes me suspect that those who prioritize development are not users of the product.

End of rant.

[Bob Van der Donck]

Thanks for the feedback. I passed on your comments to our product management and customer experience folks so your thoughts are certainly not lost despite the fact that you missed the survey.
Bob

[andrew]

I now have a goal to provide positive feedback on other topics where Inventor has improved, to offset the heavy negative in this one.

For starters: this blog is very good, and I have found many topics quite helpful.

cheers.

[Bob Van der Donck]

:-)

[Ryan Martinez]

I know this is late but i have to say im in love with the marking menu. It combined with my custom key bindings have improved my productivity and speed at which i can create models.