Photoshop Album 2.0: Ten Design Principles from Outside the Software Industry

Johnnie Manzari · 2003

User-oriented fields such as graphic design, product design, architecture, and user interface design share common goals: for example, finding solutions focused on clarity, elegance, and economy of means. User-oriented fields outside the software industry significantly influenced the design of the user interface for the digital photography software application Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0. Ten principles derived from designers and architects outside of the software industry (Paul Rand, Edward Tufte, Robert Bringhurst, Adolf Loos, and Walter Gropius) are enumerated, and their impact on specific design decisions is analyzed.

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