June 20, 2008
Posted by
Amy Haynes
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Welcome to acrobat.com! As the designers on acrobat.com, we’ve been very busy crafting a new kind of web experience for you to enjoy!

You will see that we’ve tried some new concepts that we think you may love… and we’ve got some great enhancements coming soon for the things that you may not love so much yet :-) We keep ourselves busy every day by thinking of how we can make your experience better and by working together to create those solutions. We want you to have a great experience but we want to be different. We think you’ll love us even more for that.

The core project team for acrobat.com includes three interaction designers: Amy Poling, Marissa Dulaney and Robby Shaver. We also have Josh Fleetwood on the team, he’s our visual designer and prototyper. Craig Scull is responsible for all of our user research and Marie Scanlon provides us with our on screen content. Finally, we have Dan Cooney who is our design manager on the project.

You will hear from all of us over the next few months as we continue to work on the next great ideas for acrobat.com. We will need your input!

We would love to hear from you too, please take a moment to tell us about yourself in a comment.

Comments
Randy on 3:42 PM on June 20, 2008

1. More fonts
2. Better printing from browser (having to export defeats the purpose of cloud computing)
3. Confusing having buzz documents and adobe.com documents
4. Styles
5. Document Templates

Joel on 12:53 AM on June 22, 2008

Congratulations on your very cool interface. Its look and feel make me WANT to use Buzzword!

Param on 4:59 AM on June 22, 2008

Great to know that you are the guys behind the cool looks of acrobat.com! I’m a part of the Adobe Hosted Services team in Noida, India.

Tom Heinz on 11:57 AM on June 23, 2008

Any thoughts given or plans made to consider a spreadsheet capability built with the same user experience focus as Buzzword? Hard to get corporate types to consider a switch to other document creation alternatives if the ‘standard three’ apps aren’t avaiable.

Studney Kirby on 1:06 PM on June 23, 2008

would like to be able to create folders with different names and put docs inside them.

DaveM on 10:53 AM on June 25, 2008

So far I quite like the Acrobat.com system, but one thing I’m sure would have Jakob Nielsen going wild. That is the colour scheme for text and backgrounds. It may look stylish, but getting error messages in red on black is darn near unreadable. I had to adjust my monitor in order to decode the messages to gain access to the system.

Some people may like this as it is, and indeed I may “like” it, but for me it’s just totally unusable. Maybe you should offer a choice of styles so that users can choose their own, but the initial access to the system should use a highly readable style, which is not the case at present.

There are good things here, so please keep working on it.

IanM on 4:56 AM on June 27, 2008

Good work Amy – have you considered a signature option so that each time a users shares a file, they don’t have to key in contact information.

Ritu Chawla on 10:48 PM on September 18, 2008

Hey, Great work!
Simple interface with nice and catchy graphics and also easy to access and user friendly.
I like the way you guys presented text along with icons (mouse-over effect), which also shows the good use of realestate.

It would be good to give more customization features, so that users can play more with custom styles.

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