Adobe’s listening
In response to one of my previous posts about bad file versioning.
Two weeks ago I wrote a post on the problems of file versioning, in which I cried out to Adobe:
“Dear Adobe,
I’m kind of sitting here online with a couple million designers, and we think you should fix this.
Love,
Designers”
And little did I know, Adobe was sitting right there listening to me. I unexpectedly received a kind email from the Adobe Product manager, curious to more insight on the topic and how it could be implemented into Adobe CS4.
I couldn’t help but feeling how such a large corporation suddenly felt human and tactile. I’m glad to see a how Adobe takes their time to read users opinions and comments, despite of their dominance in the market.
I figured if I would ever have any influence on Adobe’s upcoming software, it would be now that I’ve engaged into a dialog with their product manager. I have willingly been using Adobe’s software for as long as I can remember, but I still can’t get over many of its shortcomings, and I made sure to be clear about this.
At times like these I want to urge people to voice their opinions about the way we use applications opposed to how we wish we could use them, because they are listening. Technology has made it relatively seamless for us to communicate our ideas to large audiences, and what could now be more important in this 2.0 industry than the co-creation of the very software we will be using?
4 Comments, Comment or Ping
Adam Patterson
What about the fact that every time i open up an Adobe product there is some form of update for something. i might get 1 or 2 a week. not to mention that illustrator seams to be a little unstable.
Aug 22nd, 2007
Rik
I would like to see sized down versions, I use a lot of adobe programs but they are getting a tad hefty in size, I would love to have the option to make it possible to install them a tad smaller!
Aug 31st, 2007
Rik
Okay, let me rephrase, why not make one product called Adobe and let me select what I want to do.
A little bit of vector drawing, a lot of photo editting, a lot of video editting and that the product Adobe installs itself with only the neccesary parts, instead of having me install the full functionality of Illustrator for the one time a week I use it to just change a color in a vector file.
Why not make Illustrator pick what I use, and get the needed parts from the web/CD later when I change my habit (and maybe even remove unused features I stopped using)
Aug 31st, 2007
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