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In my early 20s I had a week long mind meld knowledge transfer from a self taught photographer. It made me fall in love with photography. I’m still using it to this day to photograph new label printers (black plastic is terrible to photograph) and labels (oh god they are 2D!).
I’m doing an OK job. Room for improvement but fine for the initial launch. You can see them here: https://mydpi.com/products/professional-synthetic-direct-the...
In case you’re like “why is this guy selling label printers?!”
I’m a solo software dev that wrote Label LIVE (electron) to design and print labels. Now I’m vertically integrating with a printer I’ve imported from China and labels made in the USA.
Business and entrepreneurship: just avoid these 9999 things and you’ll be fine! Science and art…
It would be awesome if someone can turn Gmail into a collaboration hub like https://missiveapp.com/ or Front with this SDK.
However, to keep things in perspective, usage of Adobe's apps still dominate the creative industries. That grip shows no sign of loosening. Just the volume of tutorials for Photoshop alone is humongous.
What the likes of Procreate, Sketch, Figma, and Affinty show is that you can carve a profitable space in the design and graphics field and succeed even when that field is dominated by a behemoth like Adobe. It's also refreshing to see rivals rethink the way of accomplishing design tasks. A lot of Adobe apps have accrued so much clunky UI interactions and lack the fresh ideas from some of their rivals.
And all i wish is that someone would make plugin to integrate procreate and figma nicer
procreate is so great
Allow me to entirely miss the point of this article by saying that is a really very confused metaphor. Tailwinds don't pull anything, and you can't put them in a harness. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be picturing. I know, this is irrelevant to their point.
There are many causes of changing customer needs. Often there are new and growing segments of customers with different use cases. Existing products may work for them, but they aren’t ideal. The features they care about and how they value them are very different from the customers the legacy company is used to. Companies resist changing core parts of their product for every new use case since it’s costly in work, money, and attention
.This is one of the best product articles ever written.
All planets aligned for Figma:
- Companies big and small acknowledging the importance of UI/UX design resulting in more and more designers entering the workforce.
- Remote work going mainstream pushing more people toward online collaboration tools.
- Web technologies progressing and enabling desktop-like experience inside a browser.
Resulting in designers, managers, customers all loving Figma. It's a game changer and it will be a bigger success story than Slack.
I find it a glaring ommision from the article analysis that it didn't even mention Adobe XD anywhere? It seems to me maybe newcomers are only competing against price and nothing else?
Yes, totally right. There was a bunch i wanted to write about Adobe. Both XD and the current moves they've made with CC etc. But had to cut because too much--so hopefully will have an essay entirely on Adobe coming at some point
Reading this article immediately made me think back to that.