Community responses

It doesn't take long to see the difference between where Google is coming from and where we are going with Acrobat.com. This tweet from a few weeks ago is one pithy perspective:

"I must admit Adobe's Buzzword looks like creamy, fattening butter next to trim, healthy margarine GDocs. But I like butter..." - @mahyuni

I love seeing that sort of emotional response to Buzzword and Acrobat.com. At the risk of dangerously mixing saturated fat and cardiac metaphors, I think the reason people respond so deeply to Acrobat.com, even in its early "unfinished" stage, is that we believe great designs engage both hearts and minds.

Continue reading "Google Docs, Acrobat.com and Great Design" »

From wikipedia:
"The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations ... is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group."

The Acrobat.com Ideas site (http://ideas.acrobat.com) is available now for YOUR ideas, your comments and, very importantly, your VOTES. This is an experiment for us: a new way of gathering ideas, getting feedback on the ideas, and letting you tell us which are the ideas most important to you. Will this be effective? Inspirational? Yes. Absolutely. Please help us explore by adding your ideas. And vote early and often.

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Wow, glad to have that behind us, now back to work changing the way people work, for the better!

Thanks for all the attention, but you people should stop surfing the web over breakfast coffee and before and after lunch, and spread your tire-kicking out a little! Just kidding, that's life on the web and we were mostly ready for it, but it is pretty tense watching the sun rise over the world on a launch day like Monday.

I'll come back to more details on the "mostly" stuff and lessons learned sometime soon, but I wanted to give a quick update on how things are going, and clarify some stray memes about Acrobat.com that are flying around on the series of tubes serving the web.

Continue reading "Now the real work begins." »

Thank you for trying out our Adobe Share beta service. We are committed to building products and technologies that will make people work better together. From time to time, we conduct live interviews to better understand your workflows and needs. We are currently recruiting for such research and we would greatly appreciate your participation!

Here are the details:
- Where: Adobe’s San Francisco office for local participants or via phone/internet for remote participants
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Format: 1:1 interviews with our researcher
- If selected to participate, you will receive a $100 gift certificate for Amazon as a token of our appreciation.

If you are interested in participating, please click this link and fill out our screener: http://www.adobe.com/go/hsscreener.
If you are selected, we will contact you by phone or email.

Thank you for your interest!
Adobe User Research

Thanks to several people for jumping into the “Buzzword Mavens” discussion on the Buzzword forum! There were some great ideas, which will be summarized below. But more important was the reminder that having a place like the public Buzzword forum is a great way to carry on the two-way conversations that we need to help move Buzzword forward.

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[UPDATE: this user study is over. Please don't call anymore :-) ]

We are looking for people to participate in a user research study on Thursday, December 6 and Monday, December 10 at our facilities in San Jose.

The study will take approximately 1 hour, and compensation will be $100.

Thank you!