{"id":16529,"date":"2010-08-03T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:22:26","slug":"thought-o-the-day-on-features-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/thought-o-the-day-on-features-polish\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought o&#039; the day on features &amp; polish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People pay for features because it\u2019s easier to justify the expense. People adore polish because it makes the product feel good, and that adoration will carry you farther in the long run than features.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Key Photoshop\/Lightroom engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/01\/09\/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story\/\">Mark Hamburg<\/a><br \/>\nI was drawn to Photoshop&#8211;first to use it, and much later to help develop it&#8211;because of the high level of fit &#038; finish I saw in the application. I&#8217;ve worked on Photoshop not because I think it&#8217;s perfect, but <em>because I&#8217;m hung up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/11\/photoshop_as_seen_through_johnny_cash.html\">imperfections<\/a>.<\/em>  (Why work on something that&#8217;s already perfect?)  At root I&#8217;m a frustrated, middling Web designer who just wanted the damn software to be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People pay for features because it\u2019s easier to justify the expense. People adore polish because it makes the product feel good, and that adoration will carry you farther in the long run than features.&#8221; &#8212; Key Photoshop\/Lightroom engineer Mark Hamburg I was drawn to Photoshop&#8211;first to use it, and much later to help develop it&#8211;because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529"}],"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=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}