Category Archives: Design

A List Apart 2007 Web Design Survey

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2007

The huge black hole that surrounds the facts about web professionals has led A List Apart to conduct a survey. If you do professional web work you should take it.

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Adobe CS3 Packaging

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 19, 2007

My update to the new Adobe CS3 Design Premium showed up today. At first the small shipping box confused me – I didn’t expect the thing to be so small. But this is a good thing since manuals are essentially no longer printed and paper doesn’t need to be wasted. To give an idea, the [...]

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Zeldman on Designing Web Sites

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 18, 2007

Jeffrey Zeldman lays it down: Information architecture. Usability. Accessibility. Web standards. If you don’t know about these things, stop designing websites until you have learned. Competence in graphic design is merely a baseline; it does not qualify you to create user experiences for the web. Read his whole post. Simply put and true. I’m sure [...]

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How Illustrator Gets Its Features

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 16, 2007

Good background on the business of enhancing a popular graphics application by Mordy Goldy, former Project Manager for Adobe Illustrator. How Illustrator Gets Its Features Mordy’s post is bolstered by John Nack, currently the Adobe Photoshop Product Manager. If you’re wondering why they can’t do X or Y because you need it and think it’s [...]

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JPEG 2000 Lays Low

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 3, 2007

John Nack, Photoshop product manager, asks a very good question: JPEG 2000: Do You Use It? He’s one of the few that can actually pose a question such as this. And it’s a good time to be asking. Photoshop does support JPEG 2000 via an optional plug-in. Adobe is considering mothballing support for JPEG 2000 [...]

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LogoMaid Rips Off SimpleBits Logo

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 22, 2007

Daring Fireball covers it well. Intellectual property thieves have much in common with other vermin, such as cockroaches and rodents: they don’t like the light. Expose them and they hide. The last thing a site like LogoMaid wants is a high-PageRank site — like, oh, say, this one — spreading the word that they peddle [...]

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Photoshop Extended

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 13, 2007

Adobe has presented a new variation the Photoshop beast with an Extended version. This will feature 3D support, motion graphics tools and image analysis (probably scientific). I’d totally love to take that for a test drive the way I played with the CS3 beta. That same beta (a first from Adobe) also made the Extended [...]

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To DNG or Not to DNG

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 13, 2007

John Nack reveals some warm and comforting info about Adobe’s DNG format for photographers who shoot RAW. I’ve not begun using DNG – it’s hard to convert your massive photo library to a new format and feel good about it. What if Adobe drops DNG like SVG? Well, SVG is open-source and widely supported by [...]

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