This could do well with a [2015] in the title, please?
Not because it's old and shouldn't be (re-)posted, but to clarify that it might have been here before. I know I've seen it somewhere earlier, and my guess would be HN.
I can appreciate the need for an anthropological point of view when attempting to understand the shortcomings of a process that eluded the standard feedback loop before it, but I'd hope the findings are considered just a piece of the puzzle rather than the last resort for an entire solution.
I just linked to this article in the comments on "Why I turned down $500K and shut down my startup" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11866868 As what the author did is essentially ethnography.
Ethnography is a powerful tool! Talking to your users, and more importantly seeing first hand what they are doing with what you have built can drastically change how you view your application. If you have the ability to get out there and SEE your users in action, do it! It might just change your world.
As a lifelong Adobe user, I'd rather hear that Adobe is doing this kind of work at a higher level, that is, studying how users interact with all of their apps as a whole.
Instead of adding art boards to Photoshop, I'd rather see art boards in Illustrator integrated better with PS. And are the art boards in AI still exporting at non-specified dimensions (a very common bug for years)? Fix what is broken before adding features to PS that are already in AI.
Can anyone explain to me why copy/paste tools are different between AI/PS? Just make them the same!
> Can anyone explain to me why copy/paste tools are different between AI/PS?
Because about thirty years ago, someone decided that Photoshop's copy and paste should work one way, and someone working on Illustrator decided they should work another way. They were not even at the same company back then. Now there are people who have those shortcuts carved into their muscle memory, and would holler bloody murder if it was changed. (Or just emit a very loud WTF?!? and hit up the key shortcuts panel to change them back to what they should be.)
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 30.8 ms ] threadNot because it's old and shouldn't be (re-)posted, but to clarify that it might have been here before. I know I've seen it somewhere earlier, and my guess would be HN.
Ethnography is a powerful tool! Talking to your users, and more importantly seeing first hand what they are doing with what you have built can drastically change how you view your application. If you have the ability to get out there and SEE your users in action, do it! It might just change your world.
Instead of adding art boards to Photoshop, I'd rather see art boards in Illustrator integrated better with PS. And are the art boards in AI still exporting at non-specified dimensions (a very common bug for years)? Fix what is broken before adding features to PS that are already in AI.
Can anyone explain to me why copy/paste tools are different between AI/PS? Just make them the same!
Edit:typo
Because about thirty years ago, someone decided that Photoshop's copy and paste should work one way, and someone working on Illustrator decided they should work another way. They were not even at the same company back then. Now there are people who have those shortcuts carved into their muscle memory, and would holler bloody murder if it was changed. (Or just emit a very loud WTF?!? and hit up the key shortcuts panel to change them back to what they should be.)