Control Group Blog

John Nack, the Product Manager for Photoshop, discusses what an Adobe CreativeSuite.app could look like. It is an interesting introduction to a concept called document-centric computing, something I was not familiar with prior to reading this.

As someone who has been supporting Adobe apps for over ten years, I’ve watched Photoshop and Illustrator grow into the giant, powerful apps that they are today. Some would argue that all the new features have created bloated, behemoths of applications. But could this bloat have been avoided without compromising all the amazing features and capabilities that were added along the way? I’m not a software developer, so I have no idea on that one. But the promise of a world where I could design, illustrate, and retouch, using a .adobe file format — and open those files in a single Adobe application — is exciting. It would certainly ease our software deployment process as well…

Nack walks through the hypothetical pros and cons surrounding this computing model. Definitely worth a read.