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Inspire
A publication from the Adobe Experience Design team
Feature pieces
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Adobe XD
XD Senior Experience Design Manager Jeremy Clark and Senior Experience Developer Daniel Wabyick discuss their collaboration with the New York Times on the AIR-based Times Reader.... Views: 6909
Rating: 4.2
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David Womack
When Khoi Vinh, design director of the NYTimes.com website, dropped the rolled-up paper on the coffee table, it landed with a thud that woke the dog. I check the NYTimes.com website every day, but it had been at least a year since I read the print version of the Sunday Times. What struck me first was the size of it. Even with a precipitous decline in advertising, resulting in fewer pages, the p...
Views: 4460
Rating: 4.2
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Andrew Day
When you use the Times Reader for the first time, you’re struck by the wealth of rich content at your fingertips, by the adept translation of the print paper’s feel into electronic format, and by the ease with which you can navigate and resize the app.
But you’re probably not aware of what makes this all possible—the Text Layout Framework, a new, extensible ActionScript library...
Views: 4720
Rating: 3.2
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Andrew Day
Justin Van Slembrouck was well–equipped to be the lead designer on the Times Reader project. He has great digital chops, as well as experience designing for print, and a deep affinity for the form. Indeed, he notes that while working on the Times Reader, he occasionally felt a certain envy toward his Times colleagues, whose work finds its expression not in pixels, but in ink on paper.
... Views: 4045
Rating: 4.2
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Adobe XD
Senior Experience Designer Julie Meridian and Senior Computer Scientist Tim Kukulski discuss the future of multitouch, and showcase XD's cutting-edge multitouch R+D effort.... Views: 13355
Rating: 3.9
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Julie Meridian
Why is it that we've seen plenty of multitouch systems – in movies, TV, and grainy YouTube clips – and not much in our daily lives? To get hands-on with multitouch, you need the hardware and software working in synch to support it. With the release of the MacBook Pro and Air laptops last year, Apple provides access to multitouch functionality that’s easy to use – without the need for custo... Views: 5974
Rating: 4.4
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Tim Kukulski
After far too many years in the technology business, I've become used to the idea that the future sometimes stays in the future forever. And much of what's really cool and exciting, even when you know it’s coming, takes a long time to arrive. Recall, for example, the long delay between John Warnock's paper on antialiasing and the appearance of antialiased type in Photoshop.
Multitouch is anothe... Views: 5012
Rating: 3.3
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Julie Meridian
Be careful what you wish for. As soon I saw the videos of the Microsoft Surface, I wanted to check it out in person. I've seen lots of impressive videos, often consisting of spinning and tossing photos into messy piles... and admittedly, I came across a Surface at UX Week and had a chance to reduce nice photos to the digital equivalent of confet... Views: 4629
Rating: 3.0
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Nayoung Kim
When I was 7, i made a paper doll house with scissors and glue. Now in my twenties, I am sitting at a big desk with a big monitor, a computer, pens and scribble sketches, and stone-cold coffee, and making a digital doll house with Ph... Views: 4651
Rating: 4.0
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Marcos Weskamp
XD’s Marcos Weskamp and Gever Tulley talk about the challenges and opportunities of taking the Encyclopedia of Life online.... Views: 7230
Rating: 4.3
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Marcos Weskamp
First off, let me start by mentioning that I am not a scholar. I’m a wanna-be architect who turned to graphic design, trying to escape the world of physics and mathematics, who eventually started scripting, then programming, and finally ended up architecting immense visualizations of data from both databases and realtime streams. I’m the product of a very special point in time, when we were ju... Views: 6248
Rating: 4.1
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Andrew Day
Back in 2006, we built an app called the Tour Tracker, which enabled fans to follow A Tour of California, one of the world’s premiere bike races, in real time, from their browsers. We thought it was pretty cool beans - it provided access to a live video feed, highlight videos and photos, dynamically updated standings and race maps, and bunch of other neat stuff.
... Views: 4787
Rating: 4.0
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Andrew Day
Encountering Employee Directory for the first time, you might ask, Why did we bother? There are already plenty of “contacts” apps—Outlook and SAP, for starters.
... Views: 4416
Rating: 4.6
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Remon Tijssen
There has always been a certain amount of playfulness in my interactive work. My approach to making designs playful has evolved over time, and I focus more now on functionality – especially since these days, I mostly build applications, rather than doing content-based work. The ultimate goal, for me, has always been to let playfulness be the element that stimulates discovery, and simplifies func... Views: 7612
Rating: 4.0
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Jamie Myrold
After innumerable mockups and prototypes, product team and customer meetings, and long hours of meticulous attention to design details, XD’s Creative Suite team is delighted that CS4 is about to ship!
We’re excited as well by the launch of Inspire – over the coming weeks, we’ll be using this site to offer you a behind-the-scenes look at our work designing the various CS4 products. We’ll... Views: 7019
Rating: 3.9
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Chris Heimbuch
This site has been months in the making and the subject of many debates, late nights and weekends. But it’s finally up, and we’re glad to have you with us, here on Inspire , the new site from Adobe XD.
Check out this video I shot with Ty Lettau, who designed the sit... Views: 5030
Rating: 3.1
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Brett Marshall
A lot of XDers have come to us from interesting jobs, but Brett Marshall’s might well take the virtual cake. Now a Senior Experience Design Lead working on After Effects and other Dynamic Media apps, Brett spent a six years at G Creative, which makes fake UIs that are used in movies. The whizz-bang displays in Reed’s lab in... Views: 6401
Rating: 3.8
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Dominic Butler
This is the first in what I'm intending to be a series of articles discussing the presentation of content on various sorts of devices, and the characteristics of that content. In this piece, I will provide a model of content that content creators, designers, service providers, engineers - anyone involved anywhere in the process of creating a mobile content experience - can use to structure their t... Views: 4862
Rating: 4.8
Video feed
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Adobe XD
Views: 2920
Rating: 3.8
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Adobe XD
Views: 5983
Rating: 3.5
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Marc Dennert
Views: 9232
Rating: 3.8
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Marcos Weskamp
Views: 5679
Rating: 4.7
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Dave Zuverink
Views: 5537
Rating: 2.4
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Adobe XD
Views: 4748
Rating: 3.4
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Adobe XD
Views: 4880
Rating: 4.8
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Matt Snow
Views: 5048
Rating: 2.8
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Jeremy Clark
Views: 4923
Rating: 3.0
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Ethan Eismann
Views: 5194
Rating: 3.3
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Paul Dorian
Views: 10726
Rating: 3.6
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Brett Rampata
Views: 4688
Rating: 4.4
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Marc Dennert
Views: 5465
Rating: 3.7
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Chris Heimbuch
Views: 8910
Rating: 3.4
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Gever Tulley
Views: 7443
Rating: 3.5
Blog feed
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Tim Kukulski
Yesterday someone asked me how I liked the 3.0 iPhone upgrade. For the most part no biggie.
Still haven’t used search, but I’ve been to the search page at least a dozen times.
Why?
Fitts’ law: “.....
Views: 110
Rating: 1.3
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Guillermo Torres Troconis
So says Mitch Loder. This has been a fairly controversial discussion in the community over the past year an a half. Jared Spool, sparked this thought with his ...
Views: 161
Rating: 3.0
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Allison Chapas
SF Design Week is upon us, with AIGA SF, Adobe, AIGA, AIA, IDSA, and IXDA sponsoring a wide range of events all over the Bay Area. The goal, in addition to highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community around the Bay, is also to raise public awareness of the impact that all design—graphic, product, interior, fashion, architecture, advertising, etcetera—has in the San F...
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Dave Nelson
What is a brand? Hint: it’s not a logo, it’s not an identity system, it’s not a product, and it’s not what you say it is, just because you say so. A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service, or organization. Individuals (emotional and intuitive beings) define brands not companies, markets, or the public at large.
Brand happens when a person experiences your product.
Up ...
Views: 132
Rating: 3.7
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Joel Brandt
Do you write code by searching the Web for examples and then modifying those examples to meet your needs? You're not alone! Researchers from Adobe and Stanford's ...
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Adobe XD
...from Smashing Magazine. 'Nuff said....
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Rating: 2.5
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Hennie Farrow
If you are like me, a busy designer mom of two, on a good day you get about 20 minutes to get ready to go to work. The word "practical" gets to have a magical meaning in putting together a half-way decent wardrobe. So you resort to al...
Views: 971
Rating: 4.1
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Marc Dennert
The crisp night air bites your skin like a thousand tiny needles. The moon spies on you from behind the curtains of the lingering storm clouds. You know this path well, having travelled it regularly. It is an easy route; just put one ...
Views: 1066
Rating: 4.4
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Andrea Mangini
This year I have been leading the design effort for a new Adobe product. While I cannot discuss the product itself yet, I will say that it has been one of the best projects I have designed for in over a decade at Adobe. Sometimes it feels like the stars have aligned and the right people come together at the right time around the right problem... and this is one of those times.
There are several r...
Views: 942
Rating: 4.4
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Adobe XD
Browsers display things differently - BrowserLab can help.
A ...
Views: 1007
Rating: 5.0
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Josh Ulm
On June 5, Yann Arthus-Bertrand will release his long-awaited first movie, Home, in what may be a landmark event for ecology awareness. On the same day the high-budget documentary op...
Views: 866
Rating: 4.0
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Kim Pimmel
There was a time, not so long ago, when everyone shot photos on film, and every click moved you closer to the end of the roll. Every snapshot was one less on which to capture 'The Shot.' Each click of the shutter was the sound of coins across the counter of the photo lab.
The Photoshop box you bought to edit your images was the same exact software you used until you purchased a new version. You l...
Views: 921
Rating: 4.3
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Andrew Day
PCMag's Dan Costa groks it: the rise of e-publishing will lead to the re-birth, not the death, of the publishing industry. To be sure, he notes, a lot of dinosaur blood will be shed in the process - but with the move to electronic distr...
Views: 925
Rating: 4.0
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Sharma Hendel
Good product development can be broken down into three stages: Understanding the problem, defining the solution and building the product. The outcome of each of these stages is critical to the success of the next.
Understanding the problem
As I’ve argued before, this is where the most impactful us...
Views: 966
Rating: 4.7
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Adobe XD
By way of a curriculum, a nice overview of the wide range of non-design skills today’s designers need.
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Rating: 1.8
Guest blogger
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David Womack
I ran into a quote recently attributed to one of my favorite experience designers, Jesse James Garrett, who was trained as a journalist. “A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I d...
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David Womack
Mitch Loder’s provocative article about the "end of user-center design" doesn't go into enough detail for me to really understand his perspective. I'm looking forward to hearing more. But it did remind me how it is almost impossible to effectively research and test innovative solutions, and how projects often r...
Views: 132
Rating: 3.4
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David Womack
Earlier in the week I wrote about how designers often have to knit experiences together across business silos and product teams. This means seeking to impact areas over which we do not have direct control. Getting our recommendations implemented requires mastering...
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David Womack
Language—in this case a language of icons—affects our own tribe’s ability to see. I was talking with Jamie Myrold, director of product design at Adobe, about Photoshop. Specifically, we were talking about the icons in the menu that represent functions.
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Views: 856
Rating: 4.3
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David Womack
Last week, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days with the Adobe XD team. While I want to discuss the particular insights I gleaned from the team, I thought I’d start with a more general topic that, as far as I know, is rarely taught, seldom written about, and only discussed over beers among project teams.
Designing an experience that is consistent, elegant, and effective isn’t enoug...
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David Womack
David Womack is a journalist, author, and experience designer whoseclients include Adobe, Japan Society, and the Pratt Institute.
His essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, Salon.com, Metropolis, Print, Eye, and I.D. magazines, and he is the co-author of Becoming A Digital Designer (Wiley, 2008). David is on the faculty of the MFA in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual ...
Views: 839
Rating: 5.0
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Brian Singer
It's probably a generational, thing, but growing up watching MacGyver taught me not only that I could build anything myself, but that I could do it with everyday household items. Combine that with the A-Team, where every week they'd get cornered and build makeshift ...
Views: 868
Rating: 5.0
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Brian Singer
As a child, I remember coloring with my mother and marveling at how she could stay in the lines. Everything she did looked so good and I wanted to be able to color in the lines too. Only after high school, college, and several years of working in the communications profession, did I realize how good I'd become at staying within the lines.
Stop for a moment and think about the experience of color...
Views: 848
Rating: 5.0
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Brian Singer
As any form of communication becomes more influential, commercial interests begin to take note. Guerrilla marketing firms begin to pop up. Ad agencies hire street teams. The tone of things begins to change, and people take notice. Some successful graffiti artists end up launching clothing lines, or working for large consumer brands, lending their street cred to help sell product. Others enter the ...
Views: 881
Rating: 2.5
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Brian Singer
Many public messages, from wheat-pasting to stickers and stencils are used simply to promote an artist. Without communicating a clear idea (other than "look where I put my signature"), these can lose their impact on the average citizen. I'm always a bit disappointed when people go through the trouble of breaking the law, climbing up a telephone pole at 4am, and then don't have anything compelling ...
Views: 867
Rating: 4.5
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Brian Singer
Hi everyone, I'm Brian Singer. No, not the movie director, the other, much less famous Brian Singer. I'll be guest blogging this week, mostly on the subject of analog publishing, but I'll also work in a rant about coloring books, and a little MacGyver too. Enjoy!
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From cavemen to graffiti artists, we've always had a thing with putting messages on walls. Self-publishing in its most primitive ...
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Rating: 2.8
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Punchcut
The mobile landscape is finally changing. With smartphone penetration at 20%, the phone’s promise as a mini portable computer is being realized and we are increasingly using phones to virtually connect, often choosing text instead of voice; Facebook or Twitter over email. But,...
Views: 1031
Rating: 3.8
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Punchcut
Gestures are taking over. With accelerometers being packed into more and more consumer devices (think Wii remote, iPhone, digital cameras and a host of other electronics) designers are using physical motion as a basic component of interaction design. This is great stuff; rather than being limited to simple pointing and selection, we can now create richer UI experiences that respond to a broade...
Views: 1111
Rating: 3.7
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Punchcut
Mobile handsets are much more versatile tools for social networking activity than desktop PCs. While the market may not yet have provided a perfect vehicle for this aim, conditions are improving and the potential is undoubtedly there. Phones have distinct advantages over laptops and deskbound PCs. Mobile devices are not merely portable, but their media capabilities tend to be more readily acces...
Views: 2273
Rating: 4.5
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Mark Murphy
So what are you going to be when you grow up? wePublishing provides a concept that empowers you to immediately participate and display your talents. It has never been easier to publish your ideas, exercise your creativity and inspire pro-active actions. Post, publish and inspire. For example:
If you are interested in single-handedly saving the automotive industry, you can submit your ideas and co...
Views: 2070
Rating: 4.3
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