14 DAY TRIAL // Adobe has announced Project Comet, its latest addition to the Creative Cloud offering, an application focused on UI designers, providing both design and prototyping abilities.
For a long while, since the unceremoniously slaughtering Fireworks, Adobe lost the respect of the UI design community, which saw one of its favorite design tools being killed off with no reasonable explanation.
While many designers continued to use Photoshop for Web and mobile UI design, Photoshop was never really meant for crafting pixel-perfect designs, and it showed, mainly in a slow and repetitive work routine.
As time went by, most of the industry's top professionals started moving their UI design workflow to Sketch, a Mac app from Bohemian Coding, which was specifically made for UI work.
At the same time, Photoshop slowly started to become a punchline for all design-related jokes, and the design community that once had Adobe at its center, turned on the company that started to give the impression that it was not caring about their interests and needs anymore.
Enter Project Comet, a worthy adversary for Sketch
But not anymore. At the Adobe MAX 2015 conference that's going on these days in Los Angeles, the company released a preview of one of its new projects called Adobe Project Comet, a new tool specifically created for UI designers, one through which it hopes to get back in the good graces of the community which helped it become the behemoth it is today.
Comet, as Adobe describes it, "combines wireframing, visual design, prototyping, and previewing all in one."
Comet will be able to blend UI & UX design work, simplify the process of going through multiple design iterations without the grueling need to re-do much of the work put into the actual design, and also provide previews to connected devices with just a few clicks.
Effectively Adobe is creating a mashup from Sketch, Principle and InVision, today's most popular design and prototyping apps.
While this sounds great on paper, we'll just have to wait to see how it all integrates and works with Adobe's Creative Cloud service which, if you allow a personal opinion, will probably "rock!" If you're interested in opinions from industry professionals, the Designer News thread about Project Comet is probably the best place to go looking for.
