{"id":12245,"date":"2007-02-22T17:42:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T17:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/02\/on-the-personality-of-apps.html"},"modified":"2007-02-22T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T17:42:53","slug":"on_the_personality_of_apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/22\/on_the_personality_of_apps\/","title":{"rendered":"On the personality of apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of the &quot;Macromedia will take Adobe clubbing&quot; thing &amp; the Lightroom team&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/02\/lightroom_podca_4.html\">musings<\/a> about the personality of applications, I was reminded of a little anecdote from a few years back (before the companies got together) that you might enjoy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A research team asked a group of young designers to describe their software tools as if each one were at a party.&#160; Photoshop, they said, was kind of like a gray-bearded professor, maybe an older guy in his 40&#8217;s (I know, I know)&#8211;really smart, really respected, but not someone you felt you could just start chatting up.&#160; Illustrator was a beautiful, glamorous woman standing on the periphery&#8211;amazing, mysterious, and not so easy to approach.&#160; And Flash, meanwhile, was the cocky young guy at the party&#8211;talking to all the girls, maybe getting a bunch of drinks thrown in his face, but going home with a handful of phone numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;J. <em>(stroking his metaphorical, not-so-gray beard, sitting among the Flash UI designers in the former Macromedia office as he types this, thinking this is the strangest life he&#8217;s ever known)<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of the &quot;Macromedia will take Adobe clubbing&quot; thing &amp; the Lightroom team&#8217;s musings about the personality of applications, I was reminded of a little anecdote from a few years back (before the companies got together) that you might enjoy: A research team asked a group of young designers to describe their software tools as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}