April 29, 2008
Microsoft hires away Photoshop veteran
Posted Apr. 29, ’08, 5:00 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Photography
Mark Hamburg is one of those people that were instrumental to the success that Photoshop is today, particularly in the early days. He joined Adobe in 1990 to work on Photoshop 2.0. His contributions vary from working on paths, to raising the minimum RAM allocation, to promoting a user interface redesign for 4.0, to being the eye in the splash screen for 5.0, to the history palette, free transform, screen caching, and shapes.
So, yes, he was important to the Photoshop project. More recently, he worked on Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom. All that is at an end though, as he’s about to start working at Microsoft. What’s his assignment? The next Photoshop killer? Maybe… but current word is that he’ll be working on “user experience”. Good luck on trying to improve that at Microsoft. He’ll need it.
[via Valleywag, photo courtesy of Lightroom News]
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Wait... a guy partially responsible for Photoshop's insane UI is going to work on "user experience" at the Borg?
Lol.
I think when it comes to Microsoft, the "user experience" is a lost cause.
I don't think I would turn to Adobe for a new user experience expert.
More likely Mark Hamburg is tied to a dentist chair deep inside Microsoft HQ building, sitting unconscious while being injected with truth serum. Microsoft interrogators (former CIA torture experts from Guantanamo Bay)questioning him about Adobe's secrets.
Expect Photoshop clone soon from Microsoft.