[iLoch]

I usually try to be positive but these changes don't look good. It looks like some overzealous designer started making UX decisions they weren't qualified to make and now the app is unusable.

I'm a huge SourceTree fan - I use it exclusively for Git, but I won't be upgrading until these obvious UX problems have been addressed.

Edit: Also, why do the OS X and Windows versions look so different?!? The buttons aren't even in the same places!

Edit 2: I don't like how negative I was in my initial post. I'm going to give it a try, maybe I'll be surprised.

Edit 3: So I just opened it up.. I think the spacing has been improved substantially. Individual components feel more polished, certainly. The biggest problem though is that the entire app feels like it's defocused because it's all grey. The only colour in the entire application comes from the pale blue used to colour the folders. Pretty lame. The whole UI just feels very drab now. Other than the lack of colour though, it looks better.

[m_eiman]

Also, why do the OS X and Windows versions look so different?!? The buttons aren't even in the same places!

Different platforms have different conventions and guidelines. Having both versions look and act the same will make it alien on either or both platforms.

[iLoch]

I don't know about that in this case. Take a look at the collapsable menu on the left for OS X and Windows - one has icons and one doesn't. The icons at the top are ordered completely differently by the looks of it. That's not a convention. The real alienation they should worry about is alienating their own users when they're on different platforms. The program should feel familiar regardless.

[m_eiman]

Agreed, it should feel familiar. But also respect the platform conventions. Nobody ever said UX was supposed to be easy, did they? :)

[willtim]

The flip side to this is that is doesn't look/behave alien when you change platform.

[gjulianm]

I'm personally staying in version 2.0 [1]. I use SourceTree exclusively for reading the commit log and exploring the branches in a repo, and all these graphical changes just make it harder to read (no color coded rows, more subtle colors...). It just seems more "artsy", not more usable.

1: https://downloads.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/SourceTr...

[zamalek]

> It looks like some overzealous designer started making UX decisions they weren't qualified to make and now the app is unusable.

At least they tried.

I used the previous iteration (Windows) for all of 5 minutes before deciding that the cognitive load which that awful UI caused wasn't worth it. I switched back to CLI+GHFW until Git Kraken[1] entered beta and, well, I no longer see any reason to reconsider my GUI client. Still, that incompetent UX was one of the biggest problems on Windows. Kudos to them for revisiting it.

[1]: http://www.gitkraken.com/

[alimbada]

For the half day that I used the new version before realising it was too broken I noticed that the UX hasn't really changed; the UI has though, i.e. most of the changes are purely cosmetic.

[akerro]

Gitkraken is really good, and there is version for Linux.

[jrs235]

Have you tried or looked at GitKraken? Anything but drab!

http://www.gitkraken.com/

[iLoch]

Wow I love this. It's my new Git tool, thank you!

[Tempest1981]

I was a bit suspicious when I read the email they sent, mentioning a new team:

"We've put a brand new team in place. We’re firing on all cylinders and are hard at work resolving your biggest pain points. Update to the latest SourceTree to get all the awesomeness."