The fanfare keeps rolling in…
“The 6 Best New Android Apps And Games” Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanwhitwam/2017/06/27/the-6-best-new-android-apps-and-games/#651499d75ca0
Go team go! We launched Adobe Sign yesterday and today it’s the top in the “New apps we love” in the iOS App Store. Pew pew!
From the official Document Cloud announcement:
Today we launched Adobe Scan, a new free mobile app that turns your phone or tablet into a smart scanning tool – making it easy to create digital documents from anywhere. By leveraging Adobe’s advanced image processing techniques, powered by Adobe Sensei, Adobe Scan captures images in a snap and transforms them into brilliantly clear Adobe PDFs with text you can reuse.
Creating and experimenting with iPod models in Tinker Cad for a new project. My mother is collecting iPods for the less fortunate in RI and this is an experiment. We feed them, but we also need to feed the soul. That’s where the music comes in! —Mom
Feel free to edit these models on TinkerCad.
Just signed a lease with a lady. Feels.
Appeared in the Adobe Design newsletter today!
I started at Adobe yesterday. 🤘
I’m beyond stoked. The company is doing really well, creating great products, and is looking to disrupt itself across all three parts of the company. The folks have been so warm and have a sage perspective of a world-class technology and software company. I’m joining the Document Cloud team: making PDF great again. The future is bright.
Hustling for a new job
Recently, I went through the process of finding a new job, and I am happy to say that I found success! I landed a great new position at Adobe and wanted to share some of the techniques that I used.
- Create a master spreadsheet - Example
- Column A - Make a list of companies you LOVE like and admire.
- Column B & C - See if they are hiring and throw the title link in
- Column D - Rack your brain for folks that work there, check LinkedIn by using this URL https://www.linkedin.com/company/Apple/ Be shameless! Referral bonuses are ubiquitous.
- Download emails for all of your LinkedIn contacts - Tutorial
Put that in another tab in your spreadsheet. - Get more info asap. Start an email for more info to see if it’s a good match. Try to connect with your team asap ie. looking for a design job, meet with a designer and the hiring manager is best. Include job link you have found, resume link, portfolio link. Don’t bother uploading your resume through a webform; from my experience, they’re blackholes.
- Personalize your portfolio, cover letter, and resume. The content should match the role they need, that you want. Make sure to highlight how you could make a contribution. Make them feel special, like you would want to feel special. Have empathy for the hiring manager. Use Google sheets so you can continue to update it if you need after you send out the link. You can also shut down the link afterwards if it doesn’t work out. I like to put small custom bit in each portfolio too. For example in the intro slide I would put ‘Hello [Company Name]’ and on the last slide a blurb about why you want to work there and how often you use their products. Be genuine.
- Crush ‘The Sheet’. Go for quality AND quantity. Sort the sheet by 'interest’ and assign a number to each company between 1-10. Stay organized. Prioritize by the ones at the top. More competitive companies (moonshots) will take longer so start those asap and give them more time to develop. Shoot for 40 companies, that way a miss isn’t a dig. You’re just looking for a great fit on both ends.
- Before the Interview. Find every question ever asked in an interview at that company. Use Google, Glassdoor. Come up with three answers for each. If one person doesn’t like your answer, you might get another person that asks the same question and could become an advocate.
- Take the high road; take it on the chin. If things aren’t going well, use it as power. Use your ego, your self-worth and rap music to power through. I listened to this track a ton while I was grinding.
Four things design should be.
Functional
- Solves a problem for a person. (Hopefully 1000 adoring people and hopefully better and more cheaply than anyone before).
- It Is fast, simple, and easy to understand.
Memorable
- Read an article by a co-worker today about cost per aquisition (CPA) targeting models. It’s a good article and he mentions ‘to word of mouth advertising’ as source of profit area for a brand that knows a customer’s average lifetime value. Design that is memorable and remarkable can be the tipping point for a business.
- Memorable design make you wiggle and put a spring in your step. Recognizable at the least, inspires loyalty and adoration at it’s best.
Accessible
- YOU are not the end user. YOU have to go out of your way to make sure people can use your product.
- Design that accessible can embolden the isolated. Designs that reflect only the creator’s needs create barriers.
Uniform
- Having a point of view is a mark of a big-leaguer. Your products should have a fingerprint of distinct quality to each of them. This is a lot easier if you nail the first three.
These are the things I believe. I’ll come back and iterate on these.