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Building more equitable product experiences through community co-creation

Including marginalized communities in product development is essential to increasing creative access

10 min read1 day ago

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An pink, yellow, teal, and lime green illustration of squares and rectangles on a purple background. From three of the rectangles emerge a pink hand holding dipping a brush into a palette of paint, a blue hand drawing a circular line with a pen, and green hand turning a knob. More rectangles and squares with speech bubbles, pairs of eyes, an ear, a megaphone, and a capital T in a bounding box.

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Ask Adobe Design: How can applicants stand out when applying to design jobs?

Insights from design hiring managers about what they look for in resumes and portfolios

9 min readMay 7, 2024

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An illustration of pink flamingos in various positions surrounding a rainbow-colored flamingo with heart-shaped joints, standing in the middle behind a red background.

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How generative AI streamlined my creative process

What happened when I turned to a completely generative workflow to design a poster

8 min readApr 22, 2024

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A generative AI illustration of a camera with rainbow-colored wings and multiple lenses (it’s largest focused on the viewer) hovering against a turquoise and cloud-filled background.

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What does a head of typography do?

Tim Brown discusses the craft and practice of typography, driving type toward a future vision, and the instrumental playlists that help him…

5 min readApr 22, 2024

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What does a head of typography do?

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Why UX designers should create object maps (and how to start)

Object-oriented design can help designers align products with how people use them

6 min readApr 1, 2024

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Why UX designers should create object maps (and how to start)

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Defining experience quality in large language models

A look at the design strategy behind Adobe Acrobat’s newest generative AI features

6 min readMar 22, 2024

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Random pink, blue, red, green, and yellow dots, of varying sizes and resolution on a black background.

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The unconventional inspiration behind simplifying a workflow in Adobe After Effects

How envisioning the experience as a bus route helped untangle a complex design challenge

7 min readMar 18, 2024

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A digital illustration of red spheres, yellow, blue, and green cubes with eyes, and multi-colored swirling, tangling ribbons, hovering over a light gray artboard with a white grid. In the lower left corner is a woman’s hand, with the index finger extended, about to touch a red sphere.

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What does a senior visual content designer do?

Shanti Sparrow talks about teaching through joy and discovery, taking big swings, and the beauty of urban graphics

5 min readFeb 20, 2024

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A digital illustration of an olive-skinned woman with long dark hair, with one side swept behind her left ear, wearing a black crew neck top. The background is light green and decorated with tool icons from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop: Free Transform, Stamp, Paint Bucket, Text, Eyedropper, Pen Tool Eraser. and Lasso

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Reducing biased and harmful outcomes in generative AI

A process for mitigating offensive and adverse outputs

9 min readFeb 20, 2024

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A grid of generative AI images of adults, 11 across and 8 down, of all ages, ethnicities, and genders.

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Introducing Spectrum 2: Our vision for the future of Adobe experience design

A preview of the comprehensive update coming to Adobe’s design system

11 min readFeb 15, 2024

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