Blender 2.8 is in it's final stages of development. A lot has happend over the past year. Those used to the interface of Blender 2.7x might not even recognize their favorite 3D application anymore. Follow us on a journey through the development of the Blender 2.8 user interface.
Rome wasn't build in a day and the same is true for the new interface in Blender 2.8. A lot of things have been tried and tested and sometimes reversed. We have created a series of videos following the interface development of Blender 2.8 from the introduction of the new icons through the many iterations they went through up to the new shortcuts and how those got changed back and forth. If you are interested in the new user interface of Blender 2.8 and how it evolved, you should watch the entire series or use the controls on the top left to jump to specific episodes: