Long Hours of Design

As I mentioned in “Quick and Dirty Job Tracking”, everyone should have and use a job tracking system of some kind.

On further inspection, EVERYONE should HAVE and USE a job-tracking system of some kind.

A design department I know recently wasted hundreds of dollars for lack of a job-tracking system.

With modern design groups having gigabytes upon gigabytes of data on servers, with project after project in different folders and placed differently by different people, sometimes named obscurely, files can become difficult to find—to say the least.

With tracking numbers, a simple OS-level search will find you your files.

Otherwise, brilliant creatives spend their time looking for file x y and z.

And that’s too bad.

Or: “What’s New?”

I’ve always opined that Acrobat was the red-headed step child of all Adobe products. I mean, have you ever used the thing? Did Adobe hire a bunch of ex-Microsoft usability and interface design guys for this one? Admittedly, the newer versions of Acrobat are better than they used to be… On the upside, I get really cool errors when Acrobat crashes!

Look, Ma—Acrobat crashed again!

Look, Ma—Acrobat crashed again!