Andrei Herasimchuk - The 1st designer at Adobe

[@utopiko]

I can’t believe I just met Andrei Herasimchuk, Thanks for inviting him. It was one of the most insightful, interesting and motivating interview I watched in months

[@jswanson859]

This was very interesting. I like how he's thinking about components and the future of design. I've been a designer for the last 20 years and it's changed so much, I'm also excited to see where it's going now.

[@adevikthur]

I really love this!

[@Iammrunkown]

This channel definitely deserves a whole lot of subs. Great work!

[@joindiveclub]

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[@branhillsdesign]

Andrei is a genius. Loved this one.

[@joindiveclub]

+1 :)

[@bharathiraja5832]

Brilliant episode!! Very good first principle thinking excercise

[@joindiveclub]

Agreed! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@bharathiraja5832]

@@joindiveclub Damn i felt so much joy

[@DevonFrohne]

The fact that Adobe didn't hire a designer until Photoshop 4 is blowing my mind. "Let's make a tool for designers, but not hire any designers on the team" That's just comical to me.

[@andreiherasimchuk]

To be clear, Adobe had designers on Photoshop and Illustrator to help the engineers design features from a customer point of view, but they were professionally trained graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers. (Russell Brown and Luanne Cohen, for example.) Back in the early 90s, I think the number of people who called themselves a UI/UX designer was less than 100 people in Silicon Valley, and most of them worked at Apple or Microsoft. I happened to be the first designer hired specifically work in on the interface and design of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

[@Brucey69]

The Knoll Brothers that co-founded Photoshop were both students of visual art. Thomas Knoll worked as a visual effects artist at Industrial Light and Magic. Many of the original team were visual artists, the term “Designer” was just beginning to emerge at that time. Industrial Design was perhaps the only professional field at that time considered to be true “Design”. Everything else was art and engineering.

[@andreiherasimchuk]

Your’e thinking of John Knoll, Thomas’ brother, who worked at ILM. As for “designer” we’re talking short hand for what people call UI, UX, or Product Designer in the tech industry specifically. As for “true” design, I have no idea what your point is, as clearly the automobile industry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, packaging design, and a whole host of other industries also have “designers” where the term had been around well before the 90s.

[@Brucey69]

@@andreiherasimchuk thanks for the correction on the Knoll brothers. And yes I was referring to Ux, UI and Product Designers as “Designers” in this context.

[@patrickwithpatrick]

howd you get that background?! is it a greenscreen?

[@joindiveclub]

which background? 🤔

[@patrickwithpatrick]

the one in your intro! with the snow and branches, it looks amazing!

[@joindiveclub]

@@patrickwithpatrick oh lol that's my living room 😆

[@patrickwithpatrick]

wow!! hashtag goals lol it's beautiful