I'm the odd duck, I suppose, but I use Quilt Pro and have found it quite user friendly in all the versions I have used--4, 5 & 6--the current version. I did start my quilting life with graph paper, rulers, a protractor, colored pencils and a calculator but quickly learned about quilting software and purchased Quilt Pro version 4 off ebay. Much quicker to design when you can change colors and patterns with the click of a mouse. Yes, I can do all the math with a calculator but it's so much easier having a program do it for me.