@AdamzP
I completely agree about the UI from Kai's Power Tools and Kai's Power Goo. I found the UI layout to be awkward and button labels/icons were unintuitive. The actual tech behind the tools was quite impressive, however.
As you can see in the main article's sample image, a lot of screen (over half!) is dominated by the UI and white space. When I do graphic work, I want to see MORE of my image and less of assorted menus, toolbars, and buttons.
Most frustrating, and an issue I still have with a number of current mainstream applications (eg Windows Media Player, MS Office (can't quickly think of any Mac examples (much as I seem to fight with iMovie, I feel its a functionality problem and not the UI))), are programs that eschew the operating system's established UI conventions. Instead of something that feels integrated and has menus/buttons that are consistent with other applications, the user has to learn yet another UI in order to be efficiently productive. (How I loathed those early GUI days when every application had its own open/save/copy/cut/paste icons...)
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