{"id":12211,"date":"2006-12-03T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T07:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/photoshop-macs-the-new-shuffleboard.html"},"modified":"2006-12-03T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T07:22:01","slug":"photoshop_macs_the_new_shuffleboard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/photoshop_macs_the_new_shuffleboard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop &#038; Macs: The new shuffleboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week C|NET <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Apple+Cool+enough+for+your+granny\/2100-1041_3-6139819.html?tag=sas.email\">published findings from MetaFacts<\/a> indicating that &quot;nearly half of Mac owners are 55 and older&#8211;almost double the share for average home PC users.&quot;&#160; Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2006\/12\/01\/age\/index.php\">disputes<\/a> this claim, though I&#8217;d take it as a compliment that my tools can be used by a generation <em>not<\/em> raised by Grand Theft Auto.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, the registered base* of Photoshop customers has skewed older in recent years, due to the exploding popularity of digital photography.&#160; The same folks who in previous generations might&#8217;ve sprung for a home darkroom now tend to buy a really nice digital SLR, computer, and the best software to go with it.&#160; These trends prompted my colleague Ashley to quip, &quot;Photoshop &amp; Macs: The new shuffleboard?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>This demographic trend has some practical implications. Most obviously, we need to make a user interface that&#8217;s easy to navigate with older eyes.&#160; Given the 20- and 30-something demographics of many visual designers, this isn&#8217;t always easy to remember, but we&#8217;re working on it.&#160; The emergence of scalable, resolution-independent will be essential here, and in the meantime Photoshop CS2 added the ability to adjust the font size of the interface (a small thing, literally, but a step in the right direction). <\/p>\n<p>*Note: This of course <em>way<\/em> undercounts all the five-finger-discounting little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leet\/1337\">l33t-speak<\/a> haxxor-kiddies.  <i>(&#8220;im in ur base, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopediadramatica.com\/index.php\/I_am_in_your_base_killing_your_d00ds\">stealin ur &#8216;Shop<\/a>&#8230;&#8221;)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week C|NET published findings from MetaFacts indicating that &quot;nearly half of Mac owners are 55 and older&#8211;almost double the share for average home PC users.&quot;&#160; Apple disputes this claim, though I&#8217;d take it as a compliment that my tools can be used by a generation not raised by Grand Theft Auto.&#160; As it happens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}