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UX Prototyping App coming from Adobe

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by Jennifer Smith
UX Prototyping App coming from Adobe

Creating a prototype for an app or website is an important step in the UX design process. To create prototypes that show the user experience process and user flow, designers currently work with a variety of tools such as Sketch, Balsamiq Mock-ups, and OmniGraffle. Adobe appears to view the UX process as an underserved area, and has announced their plans to offer a new tool for user experience designers to use in creating prototypes as well as mock-ups of UI designs.

The new user experience design tool from Adobe will be available in 2016 and is known as Project Comet. This UX app is scheduled to become part of the Creative Cloud, making it unlikely that it will be available on a stand-alone basis. Created for UX designers, the app is focused on the needs of app and website design and prototyping. It will work on both Mac and Windows platforms, unlike some popular UX tools that are only available for Mac OS.

As this UX app is a work in progress, a more complete review will be posted once we have an opportunity to use it for creating the UX and UI of apps and websites. If it is widely adopted, it may become part of the curriculum of the UX courses and UX Certificate Program at AGI. The information available about this forthcoming UX tool is below.

As a UX design tool, Project Coment is designed to be useful across several areas of user experience design, and will be if all the capabilities are delivered the way that they are currently planned. This includes wireframing early design concepts along with creating interface designs. The interface design capabilities will be helped by the planned integration with Photoshop and Illustrator, making it easy to move user interface (UI) assets from these apps into a wireframe or mockup of an interface design. Its ability to be used for creating interactive prototypes will also benefit from this integration.

Adobe is also looking to provide UX designers with a helpful option for prototyping: the ability to preview apps and websites directly on other devices. The intention is for a UX design to be created using the app, and by connecting another device the interface and interactions can be previewed for testing purposes.

 

 

About the author

 is a user experience designer, educator and author based in Boston. She has worked in the field of user experience design for more than 15 years. She has designed websites, ecommerce sites, apps, and embedded systems. Jennifer designs solutions for mobile, desktop, and iOT devices. Jennifer holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Human Factors in Information Design, a Bachelors degree with a concentration in Commercial Art. When not teaching at American Graphics Institute, Jennifer Smith is an adjunct professor at Boston University.

Jennifer delivers UX training and UX consulting for large Fortune 100 companies, small start-ups, and independent software vendors.She has served as a Designer in Residence at Microsoft, assisting third-party app developers to improve their design solutions and create successful user experiences. She has been hired by Adobe and Microsoft to deliver training workshops to their staff, and has traveled to Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and across the U.S. to deliver courses and assist on UX design projects. She has extensive knowledge of modern UX Design, and worked closely with major tech companies to create educational material and deliver UX workshops to key partners globally. Jennifer works with a wide range of prototyping tools including XD, Sketch, Balsamiq, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Blend for Visual Studio. She also works extensively in the fields of presentation design and visual design.

Jennifer is also an expert on Photoshop, digital image editing, and photo manipulation. Having written 10 books on Photoshop, and having consulted and provided training to major media companies and businesses around the globe.

Jennifer is the author of more than 20 books on design tools and processes, including Adobe Creative Cloud for Dummies, Adobe Creative Cloud Digital Classroom, and Photoshop Digital Classroom. She has been awarded a Microsoft MVP three times for her work with user experience design in creating apps for touch, desktop, and mobile devices. Jennifer holds the CPUX-F certification from the User Experience Qualification Board and assists others in attaining this designation in leading a UX certification course at American Graphics Institute.