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by efortis 1336 days ago
Autodesk Maya:

- The Hotbox menu, notice the cardinal (North, South) menus, which are large hit areas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_MJrYzwNyA

- The Node editor. It does the work of many older interfaces.

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Not complex, but clever and useful:

Corel Draw (at least in the older versions)

- Having pages (instead of artboards), you can easily duplicate a page, and PageUp/PageDown see the evolution of the design. Likewise, for comparing the last changes.

- Ctrl + click a color in the palette, tints a bit the object color. Nice for making colors play well together.

- Double-click a curve and adds a node (without having to select another tool)