{"id":2381,"date":"2015-05-18T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2015-05-16T14:51:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:51:40","slug":"dropbox-buys-pixelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/dropbox-buys-pixelapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox buys Pixelapse; Stone ages to end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting\u2014I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/01\/26\/dropbox-acquires-pixelapse-a-version-control-and-collaboration-tool-for-designers\/\">this news<\/a> back in January, but it\u2019s promising: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelapse.com\/\">Pixelapse<\/a>, purveyors of &#8220;Version control for designers,\u201d have joined Dropbox.<\/p>\n<p>As a designer working in NY back in 1999, I asked Adobe for something just like this. In 2003 the company delivered Version Cue (did I just make a bit of dust fall off your brain?), meant to automate &amp; streamline versioning &amp; notification, but despite years of investment, it went nowhere. Design workflows largely remain just as rudimentary as they were decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Designer Khoi Vinh recently surveyed fellow designers about their workflows &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/2015\/05\/07\/the-state-of-design-tools\/\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s inarguable that Dropbox has made this aspect of workflows much easier than it used to be, but it also illustrates <strong>how primitive it remains<\/strong>. Team members traffic files amongst themselves via manual hacks like modifying file names (e.g., \u201clayout-final-emily.psd\u201d), moving files into select folders, or notifying one another via email or other messaging services. <strong>No version control software<\/strong> like Pixelapse or the late, lamented LayerVault has taken hold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I always saw tools like Pixelapse &amp; even Adobe\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.adobe.com\/link\/b8ecd6b6-94ac-468c-9cfa-b2c666c81a6c?section=extract\">Project Parfait<\/a>\u00a0as features of, not alternatives to, Dropbox. I <em>strongly<\/em> argued that in this department Adobe should channel the spirit of old BASF ads: \u201cWe don\u2019t make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy <em>better.<\/em>\u201d That is, embrace &amp; extend users\u2019 workflows, rather than making them swim upstream to change a whole ecosystem. We\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting\u2014I missed this news back in January, but it\u2019s promising: Pixelapse, purveyors of &#8220;Version control for designers,\u201d have joined Dropbox. As a designer working in NY back in 1999, I asked Adobe for something just like this. In 2003 the company delivered Version Cue (did I just make a bit of dust fall off your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"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=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}