Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Adobe's New Brainstorming App for Designers Is Here
WIRED: he last time we saw Comp CC, the newest tool in Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, it was called LayUp, and creator Khoi Vinh had just demoed it at Adobe MAX 2014. It is, in essence, a responsive brainstorming app that recreates the early stage pen-and-paper sketching experience on an iPad. It complements Adobe’s marquee applications InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
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I know that I have written many comments hear on the green page about this idea, but I truly believe that iPads are the new technological device that is going to change the way that our industry works. I say this because they allow us to continue working and collaborating on the go. The biggest advantages to them are that they are probably one of the most (if not the most) environmentally friendly tools that we have to use. There is no longer a need to really print out hundreds of copies of hand outs and other things. Now all of these things and many other items can be shared between people with no hassle at all. Hundreds of tree’s lives will spared in the name of simply creating art. I am sure that there are other down sides to using iPads, but I can’t think of any. The only one I can think of is that eventually we will run out of digital storage. But that is a conversation for another day.
This is an app I want so badly. I have had so many design ideas for things, but have been completely unable to do it justice on the piece of paper, or napkin, or hand, that I have drawn it on. Having an app that corrects what you write into font and allows you to edit everything as much as you want is such a smart idea. It turns a quick sketch into a comprehensive idea. I think there should be more apps designed for the brainstorming process of design. Especially for the purpose of trying to describe your design to other people in your firm or company. Having an app that corrects what you draw into something that actually looks presentable in the context of the design world.
I think the idea of being able to productively work on the go is a great asset to productivity. While I think this app is environmentally friendly, I do think this a part of the creative process will be lost from this app. There exists a true sense of working through a design when pen hits paper. As soon as the invention of the tablet was created, being able to draw on it was always meant to be the next step. In the tablet's creation, the initial idea behind it was having the power and sophistication of a computer but all being able to render the use of paper in our society useless. There is a huge loss the human touch when drawing on the computer with a stylus. Each stroke can only be so precise that the thought of using one’s finger to sketch out designs on the fly feels too silly. While I am very pleased to see that this mobile app still connects with other more powerful adobe design apps, I still feel very conflicted on it’s creation and how successful of a tool it will really be to designers.
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