The mission, mandate, and model setting us up for accountability and measurement of more equitable products By Timothy Bardlavens, Director of Product Equity Inclusion ensures everyone has a seat at the table. What it doesn’t ensure is that everyone has an opportunity to speak, or that others at the table will listen, or that those people listening will act. Equity, on the other hand, ensures that an invitation is absolute: A person can speak and everyone at the table will listen, act, and be held accountable for their actions.

Adobe Design Prototyping: Show don’t tell By Sapna Gathani, Senior Design Engineering Manager, Design Prototyping Delightful user experiences make products special. But those experiences are seldom happy accidents, they must be thought through, teased out, and finessed. The best way for us to think through and test the features and functions that result in these experiences is by building and testing them before they’re put into products — using prototypes.

There’s a much more intentional way to design and build products By Bradee Evans, Principal UX Designer, Pro Products When I was designing on the Adobe Photoshop team in 2013, there was a lot of work to get done very quickly. Spreading time across scrum teams, but also thinking about strategy, I realized the single most impactful and time saving thing we could do was to stop designing for our users and align on where we wanted the product to be in the future.

Veronica Peitong Chen on the shifting creative landscape, bringing new technologies to user experiences, and the advice she received at undergrad orientation By Veronica Peitong Chen, AI/ML Experience Designer, Machine Intelligence & New Technologies We design and refine the Adobe tools and experiences that millions of creative people use every day. In this series, we introduce the bright and brilliant people behind the products: Meet the members of Adobe Design.

A close-up look at this new(ish) design specialization By Verna Bhargava, Senior Design Manager, Adobe Express I threw my first dinner party the year I moved to San Francisco after college. I’d been practicing my new found culinary skills for six months and decided to cook a four-course Italian meal. I invited eight friends and asked them to arrive at 7:00 PM. That day, I bought my groceries then headed out to spend the day at a local park. I returned home at 5:00 and started dinner prep (anyone who cooks should see the problem with this plan). Making one dish for two easy-to-impress roommates was much different than making four dishes for nine people in two hours. While no major crises occurred, all four dishes were served lukewarm around 10:30 PM

A look at technology’s influence on illustration and design By Brooke Hopper, Principal Designer, Machine Intelligence & New Technologies Up until about a year ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) weren’t top of mind for most people — even those in creative industries. Enter Generative AI. Now everyone from students to morning news anchors is talking about them and, as can be expected, not all that information is correct. Misinformation or not, AI/ML is a topic that generates strong feelings.

Relatable visual stories that surprise, delight, and guide user outcomes By Gabriela Iancu-Mihai, Senior Visual Content Designer, Learn & Help Originally used in Microsoft applications to display tool functionality in the toolbar (remember Clippy?) tooltips, have taken on many different forms over the years. At their worst they’ve been obtrusive and annoying. At their best they’ve been welcome, useful… and even delightful.

Mick Storm discusses prototyping, his enjoyment of the learning process, and the connection between his profession and his personal work as an artist By Mick Storm, Senior Staff Design Engineer, Design Prototyping We design and refine the Adobe tools and experiences that millions of creative people use every day. In this series, we introduce the bright and brilliant people behind the products: Meet the members of Adobe Design.

Michelle Jones on the musical range of ukuleles, the pride she feels in helping to shape product experiences, and the importance of a sense of humor By Michelle Suzette Jones, Content Designer, Collaboration Experiences We design and refine the Adobe tools and experiences that millions of creative people use every day. In this series, we introduce the bright and brilliant people behind the products: Meet the members of Adobe Design.