[barretts]

I am also a Sony Alpha user and the interface seems anti-designed. Like, willfully obtuse and user-hostile. I know UI is not easy, but relative to the scope/scale of Sony, how hard would it really be for them to cop even a few best practices in software design?

[dkrich]

Agreed. The Alpha software reeks of "design by committee" for the entire mass of camera users to allow anything to be controlled with equal weight. It's a major problem.

[smileysteve]

And sony typically focuses a lot on design.

But I disagree with this and the article; SLRs is based on historic professional use of manual cameras; to which, much of the manual design is useful for.