Settings menu fonts are horrible to the max. They are blocky, compacted together and when they get highlighted when you select a certain menu on the left, the text becomes one blob of lines. It’s awful.
The entire UI is a mess really to be honest…
This was actually my next thing I wanted to post after staring at it for a bit longer. Everything about new interface is bad.
- awful color scheme (purple, really?)
- huge interface with nothing going on in it
- awful fonts all over the “new” interface
- settings menus are the same as for the last 5? versions (and they aren’t good at all)
- Protection statistics digged in totally wrong menu
- Why is Virus Chest still hidden in several submenus!?!?!?
I know you’re not suppose to make a copy of competition, but have you guys seen Bitdefender or Kaspersky latest GUI ? avast! misses that compactness, consistency, being pleasant to the eyes.
Current stable avast! version kinda has that. This beta version just doesn’t at all. GUI is upgraded, but the settings “behind” it are EXACTLY the same. I mean, open the settings and see for yourself. It’s exactly the same cluttered mess as it was for last few years. Sorry, if you’re doing a major update, do it properly. Not just transplant the face and leave everything behind it the same.
UI looks a little less cluttered in my opinion from current stable version, nice and clean, don’t even see ad on the main gui screen now, Performance/Gaming Mode will check out more as time allows, Little slow opening the Gui on this test System though, can’t seem to find the feedback button in the Gui to actually submit feedback from Avast Gui itself.
Account feature seems to be gone
Seems to have auto registered after clean install of Free version
Settings menu still same as old versions though/components area
Purple color not sure on really, at least it’s darker than Orange and White of current stable ui, I kinda don’t mind the darkness, as it matches my UI theme on the Windows 10 Systems, dark, though i’d prefer chooseable dark colors, Default, then chooseable blue/black or Dark Orange/Black with a little whiteness in menu area would work too in my eyes along those lines. Overall didn’t see many bugs yet at least on my monitor, and system I am testing on currently.
One issue though with the Performance/Game Mode option Component, having it set for High Performance while gaming, won’t that cause PC’s or Laptops to overheat, say if your gaming for 3-5 hours straight. I personally run in balance power setting mode most of the time, so dynamic range of the CPU can be done, unless i’m doing things wrong all this time, first 8 core processor, so kept it in balance just like my old Quad Core
I have not tested this beta, but I liked the old GUI a lot. Found it looked nice, was simple to use, easy to find what I was looking for, etc…
Without seeing it, outside of a few screen shots, the only thing I don’t like about what I am hearing with the new GUI is they made it larger.
- awful color scheme (purple, really?)I actually like it :D
- huge interface with nothing going on in ittrue
- awful fonts all over the "new" interfacenot sure what do you mean - havent noticed anything like that
- settings menus are the same as for the last 5? versions (and they aren't good at all)Avast's settings is terrible. I can't find anything there. So yeah, agree w that.
- Protection statistics digged in totally wrong menuyup
- Why is Virus Chest still hidden in several submenus!?!?!?Also - that. I had to google where it is few times in the past. That SHOULDN'T be a thing.
I really don’t understand this grouping of features in side buttons. They just don’t make any sense. They didn’t make any sense in current stable build and it doesn’t in this beta.
Is it so hard to separate things into 5 categories via side buttons:
- Status (basically current Home + Notifications, statistics etc)
- Real-time protection (all real time shields and its settings)
- On-Demand scans (all on demand scans, antivirus, software updater, WiFi)
- Other tools (Rescue Disk, cleanup tools and all the other non security related garbage)
- Virus Chest (for crying out loud, place the damn thing in plain sight, not dig it in some stupid unrelated on-demand scan submenu)
Instead, we have miles long side panel of the GUI that is empty and all the stuff is cluttered under 1 button. WHY!? I might not be the greatest when it comes to crafting fancy graphics, something avast! team is really good with, but they really have no clue how to organize GUI well. avast! 9 in a way almost had this and then the whole thing just spiraled out of control again. I just can’t understand it unfortunately. Sure, primary antivirus task is protection, but humans are visual creatures and there should be A LOT more emphasis on visual appearance of avast! GUI than they do currently. It’s very important.
EDIT:
The messed up awful font. I marked the worst offender, but the rest isn’t any better. It’s thin, hard to read, ClearType makes it even worse and these highlighted texts just merge letters into this unreadable mess.
Can anyone post a screenshot of the free version’s new UI? Or is it the same as the pro/IS/premier version?
Ok I installed the latest beta. I have to say I like the old GUI more. Especially the “Home” screen of the new GUI, looks way too barren. They need to reduce the size if it is going to be that sparse/blank.
The other thing I noticed, and not sure if this is the case with the current program, but running speedtests at the below site gives me a ton of bufferbloat. If I disable Avast, then I get very little bufferbloat.
[b]so there won't be color difference between Free and paid versions and all will be dark.[/b]
Awful color scheme (purple not dark). 
Nope, it’s still there.
It’s the same.
Account feature was not ready for current beta. It will be back in some future release
Yes, I agree Settings font is ugly and we will fix it in upcoming betas. We will also change the whole Settings later in 2017, because you are right, it’s like 5 years old ;-(
Fastest way to Virus Chest is via systray icon.
I know you can access Virus Chest via trey menu, but even though I’m a very long time avast! user that never crosses my mind. I always go to main interface and via On-Demand scans panel.
Confirmed. (5 to 10 times slower on XP than before.)
This machine i use to test on, slowest in the entire household lol, despite being upgraded to Windows 7 SP1 32bit long ago, still much slower than 8 core system and 4 core system lol.
But i figure if it can run well on this slow thing, should run great on 8 core and Quad core system when final lol, don’t like running betas on the more powerful systems that much, but almost tempted to try it lol
Laptop machine dead, memory chips or hard drive dead in it, so waiting on funds to repair that one lol.
Overall though liking this new Avast beta, webshield might be a little on the slow side on Windows 7 though, not positivie on that or might be PC itself lol
Specs of System are
Acer Aspire Revo R1600
1.6ghz processor, Intel Atom Single Core
1.5gb of ram (512mb used for video lol)
160gb 5400rpm hard drive
Windows 7 SP1 32bit lol
amazed it runs this well on this slow thing, attempts a game on this one should be fun in a moment lol
Don’t know if gaming mode turned on autoly with this machine, when entering game popped showed Gaming Mode is off, when exited game, said same thing
Game was SCS Bus Driver (old old game lol) only thing this little test machine can run lol
Some feelings about new beta…
- Overall design and coloring are not that bad, some refines are needed
- Font size in settings window is too small
- Main window is too big
- Mojibake (translated text become garble) are around there: see example, attention needed
- HTTPS MITM issue (reported here) is still in this beta
- awful color scheme (purple, really?)https://blog.avast.com/the-new-avast-brand-the-story-behind-the-amoeba-and-more
I don’t mind the purple at all, and it’s different than all the black GUIs everyone else seems to be doing.