Months and months went by while Mark, George and Grace Kim tried to nail down a feature set for Shadowland and try to develop a product position within the Adobe pro-imaging product line. The development continued-slowly-with new builds being sent out to a small select group of early alpha testers. Some of us were Adobe “regulars” such as Martin Evening, Katrin Eismann and myself (Photoshop alpha testers) and some new testers where brought on to represent a non-Photoshop centric photographer’s view. But development was difficult without a strong voice in the UI design of Shadowland.
During a visit to Adobe I had dinner with Mark Hamburg. He was lamenting the fact that the UI, something he felt strongly should be non-Photoshop in design, needed a jumpstart. He wanted to get a UI designer to bring new ideas and innovative designs to the team. I shocked him by offering my services as the UI designer on Shadowland. Of course, I had no actual work experience as a UI desginer…but I had worked extensively with the Photoshop UI design team for years and I knew a little something about working with Mark.
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