Is there a way to return to the old JIRA UI?

[Jean-Pierre Gariépy]

The new design is such a pain, time consuming et non-instinctive. 

I must click 10 time to perform a one-click action with the old UI.

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

I attached a screen shot:

[Shalvika Sood]

The new Jira interface is a HUGE pain, very bad from usability, one has to put through so many clicks to get to a simple screen. Searching is an issue...And it looks So dark.

Don't like how they have forced this on everyone.

[Namit Kaura]

I wouldn't say nice... rather it's okay for new users since they haven't learned anything yet about how to use JIRA's UI.  Also personally I'm not a fan of the new style and think it's actually "uglier" and plainer than the old one but that's not my main issue with it.  Mainly they've fundamentally changed how you do things and navigate the UI.  Also the sizes and spacing of various fields have been changed and are still not very reactive so that can't be why they changed them.  

For example some text boxes were given a shorter max width for some unfathomable reason even if you stretch the window wider.  This just means there's now more word wrapping where there previously was none (or less) when viewing on a desktop monitor.  And there is even more wasted whitespace everywhere that means there's now more scrolling up and down to view an issue.

Also as mentioned by others, it often takes far more clicks to navigate, and in a much less intuitive way. Adding a cutesy game-like tutorial to overcome this shortcoming is not going to placate long time users... just piss them off even more.  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm afraid Atlassian is inflicting it on everyone now, and removing the ability to revert back.

We are mostly stuck with it now, and just have to hope they either fix all the things it has broken, or decide to go back to the better old interface.

[Jean-Pierre Gariépy]

We can't turn it off now. :(

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

Just tagged Cloud to this question - alerts get confusing.

[laralg]

It's nice for users. But a Nightmare for Administrators, training a new administrator it is very confusing as you cannot show quickly how the changes in one place take part in another ( it takes 20 clicks to go anywhere).

The UI it is for having a Jira running in 5 mins, but if you want something different than the premade Jira's it is hell...