A Next-Generation Consumer Photo Application: Challenges
in Creating a Simple Yet Powerful User Experience
Michael Slater, Adobe
Slides (in PDF format): Adobe_Photoshop_Album
Date: Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003
Time: 6:30pm Refreshments; 7:00pm Speaker
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Pruneridge
and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.
About the talk:
Adobe has developed Photoshop Album, a next-generation photo application that
enables consumers to organize, fix, share, and preserve their digital photos.
Previous solutions have been too complex for many consumers to accept, and a
radical change in approach was needed to both simplify the user's experience
and deliver more capability. This talk will describe the new paradigms used
in this program and explore several of the challenging design issues, especially
with regard to achieving consumer ease-of-use.
About the speaker:
Michael Slater is Director of Technology Strategy Adobe's Digital Imaging and
Video business unit, responsible for technology strategy. He was formerly the
chairman and co-founder of PhotoTablet, later renamed Fotiva, which developed
a photo management application before being acquired by Adobe in December, 2001.
Prior to founding PhotoTablet, he was the founder and editorial director of
the Microprocessor Report newsletter, and organizer of the Microprocessor Forum
conference.