I am new to Ignition, and while going through the Ignition Designer platform, I am completely baffled by its outdated design and extremely tiny fonts and icons. My eyes have to work extra hard just to look at the tree directory and the menus. To make matters worse, I just found out there is no easy…

I almost said something earlier when he was monologuing but I didn't want to jump to conclusions

great get AI to fix your dark mode problem or can it only complain for you? [image] image courtesy of bmusson.

I'm not touching the AI argument, thats already been done to death in this forum. I will say though, the guidelines request that we don't divert topics mid-stream. Here we've gone from a complaint about the UI, to attempting to discuss AIs place in society and industry?

It's one thing to joke around a little bit, but this is starting to take things too far. Let's try to be more respectful of each other. We all have our opinions but this is not the place to be disrespectful towards others for their opinions.

They probably just don't want things changed that are comfortable to them to appease one user that would be more comfortable with a different UI. I've worked in many of the popular SCADA platforms that have been used over the last 20 years. I haven't found one with a better UI/UX than Ignition. I…

I believe your assessment of HMI design tools and the industrial HMI UX as a whole is pretty typical of someone who is newer in the field and believes they can change the world. For your first projects you try to pull in all the latest and greatest UX design techniques, colors, styles from your fav…

[image] tumurcukhb: I guess we hang in there and find some fun in the checkboxes. Also, understand that the vast majority of SCADA programming isn't geared towards those with a heavy software development background. Ever used one of the "build your own web page tools"? As someone who has so…

Yeah, the attitude that AI use amounts to theft is so irksome, I had to write a song about it. Using AI, of course... :squinting_face_with_tongue: [image] It's All Derivative Listen and make your own on Suno.

Why is the Ignition Designer UI so outdated?

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lrose September 24, 2026, 3:03pm 48

You might be suprised, but not everyone uses dark mode.

I don't. I develop in Visual Basic, Java, Python, C++. I aslo use AutoCad, and OnShape. I do not use dark mode. I find it makes things harder for me to read. And dark mode in the wrong lighting actually causes more eye strain.

You want dark mode, that's fine, you are not alone, but there are many who don't want it.

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