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- Hello everyone, welcome to a new vlog.
I am here in L.A. at the moment
because I'm going to Adobe Max.
This is a conference that Adobe puts on every single year
about like design, creativity, all of the things.
I think they also talk about new Adobe features
and stuff there as well, like in their keynote.
This year, they got in touch with me
and said they wanted to fly me out to attend the conference,
and I was like... yes!
This is definitely one of the coolest opportunities
that I've had because of YouTube, so far.
I've always seen Adobe Max,
like pictures and videos or whatever from it
in years past and always wanted to attend.
So, I'm really happy to be actually going this year.
Right now it's Sunday.
The conference doesn't actually start until Monday.
It goes Monday to Wednesday.
But, today they're hosting a UX leaders summit.
So it's going to be about user experience design,
and it's going be more conversation based
than conference talks sort of thing.
I don't know.
Definitely stoked to have been invited to this
and to be spending my Sunday afternoon
talking about user experience design,
so I better get out of this hotel and get going
because it starts at two and it's one o'clock right now.
Let's go.
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So, I ran into this guy, at the XD summit thing.
I didn't know you were going to be here.
That's cool.
- What a surprise to see you!
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And our paths cross once again.
- Once again, so now we gotta some dinner
before this party thing,
and Ben is back there somewhere too.
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- How's it going?
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- How's it going operating the non-Apple computer?
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Well, today is the official day one of Adobe Max.
The keynote is the first thing up this morning,
so I'm just sort of like, getting ready,
and then I'm about to head over there for some breakfast
and to get a good seat for the keynote
because I've heard that it fills up fast.
Yesterday, the UX Leader's Summit turned out to be
more of like, a product update on XD than
I was expecting or hoping for.
Yeah, I was hoping for more conversations about UX
and that sort of thing, rather than focusing on like,
the XD road map and stuff like that.
At the end though, of the very last part of the day,
was this group conversation between everyone at the
tables we were at about design systems,
that's like a super hot topic in the industry right now,
obviously, and I've feeling a little bit like
maybe I'm a bad designer because I don't have an
official documented one at ConvertKit.
But, I was at a table with people from Amazon,
eBay, Home Depot, like huge companies,
and they don't really have it all figured out yet either.
So, I don't know, that made me
feel a little bit better knowing that.
I would have really liked more of that type of discussion,
but, yup, it was still a good day and I saw
Christo and Burns there from The Future,
they turned up and I was like, I know you.
So we went to get dinner afterwards which was really cool,
and then spent the evening at the, like, XD welcome drinks
reception thing, having more good conversations.
Alright, I think I should get moving and
get on over to the keynote.
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- Because in this release of Adobe XD,
for the first time anywhere,
you can have design, prototype, and share with voice
in the media, it's like we create voice prototypes.
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- Alright, we just got out of the keynote and Michael's
gonna share what part excited him most
about what we just heard, what was your favorite bit?
- Well, let me tell you, when that one dude, who was
showing off the After Effects and Premiere stuff.
- Yup.
- He was excited, he was pumped and got my blood rushing.
- Alright and very quickly now, I realize that's good
but I want more color contrast, I want more drama.
- Or the content Phil.
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Content Phil because the joke is not given enough attention.
- Yup, we need to explain that.
- Yeah yeah.
- So they had Phil Schiller here from Apple and
the guy from Adobe gave him a bomber jacket that on the back
said, "Content-Aware Phil", and we, I feel like
I almost cried laughing, and no one else was really laughing
and Phil Schiller definitely didn't get it.
- He was just like, yeah thanks for this sweater,
I really appreciate that, it's cool.
- So good, but the feature in After Effects was cool.
- Yeah, the feature in After Effects,
I think that's really cool.
- Yeah.
- I always like exploring a little bit more
of After Effects.
- Yeah.
- So I think that's a really cool addition,
so I'm pumped about it.
- I'm most excited about Premiere Rush.
That's for video editing, seems like something
I would definitely use for my blog, so I'm gonna use that,
and what was the other part I just said I was excited about?
- Mmmm.
- I've forgotten.
(laughs)
- There was all those fun features in Photoshop.
- Oh yup, yup.
- There was that.
Oh there was the thing where I don't have to
click the layer for the text, I can click on the text now.
- Yeah.
- I like that.
- Photoshop for iPad, that's gonna be cool.
- No one's gonna see my face.
- Okay, right.
- [Michael] Oh, sorry.
- We just stole Karen's thing, Karen!
- You just stole my thing.
- [Michael] That's a segue into your thing
- You can explain it though, better than he did.
- [Michael] Because I explained it for her.
- So I am so excited in Photoshop, you no longer have to
type and then click like any other tool
to get out of the text tool,
you can just click away and you can just
double click on your text.
- The amount of times that I have added a V
to the end of my text accidentally, cause I've been
trying to get out to the selection
- Or started a new text layer when you're trying to
select your, yup.
- Yup, so many times, so yeah that's great.
Any other favorite parts?
That was the highlight?
- I liked the new color wheel picker
- Yup.
- I like the new Light Room for iPad
- Also very cool.
- My iPad's really old, so I need to get a new iPad
so I can use all of these new features.
- I think now is a good time to upgrade, yeah, for sure.
By the way yeah, Karen's here, we didn't introduce her yet.
We're just waiting for the lines to die down,
then we're gonna go have some lunch.
- Thanks for being here.
There's a lot of you, so it's cool.
Here we go.
This is 99 Percent Invisible, I'm Roman Mars.
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- The jet lag is hitting me hard now,
also probably cause I woke up at like 4:30 this morning,
anyway, just got to see Roman Mars do
99 Percent Invisible live,
he was like pushing all the buttons to bring in
the interview portions and the music and stuff,
it was so cool, like, yeah, just really well done,
and yeah, cool to see that live, cause its a podcast
that I've got for a long time,
anyway, I'm heading back to my hotel now to do some work,
and then I'll be going back over to the conference
to the reception later on tonight,
also I remembered what the other thing was,
that was my favorite part of the Keynote, and that was,
I think the codename was Project Gemini, it's this app
for drawing and painting on the iPad,
which looks incredible, they demoed it with oil paint
and watercolors and those have been things
that kinda look fake if you do them on the computer,
but with this new technology and like what they've made,
it looks pretty damn cool, the way that it looks like
real paint, looks like real watercolors, so I'll be
really excited to get my hands on that when that comes out.
- Alright it is Adobe Max day two.
Yesterday, like I last vlogged, I went back to my hotel
to do some work, and then I got super sick to be honest,
and spent the evening feeling very sorry for myself
instead of going to the welcome reception,
which was a shame, and also the team from The Future
hosted a meet-up as well that I couldn't go to,
cause I just couldn't get out of bed.
Feeling a bit better today, well a lot better
compared to last night, but yeah, definitely needed to
take it easy this morning, so I've just been at my hotel
doing some work, now I'm on my way to the convention center
for some afternoon sessions.
These are gonna be a lot more hands on, and topic focused,
so really looking forward to that, and of course,
gonna bring you all with me.
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I just got out of a session about designing
voice interfaces, not something I do,
but every conference I like to go to something
that is unrelated to what I do, so I make sure
I'm learning something new and keeping aware
of what's around me.
Right now I'm in the community pavilion,
which is kind of like an expo hall.
The expo hall at VidCon is always one of my favorite things
to walk around and see all the booths and stuff,
and this is cool, because its like that
but all super design nerdy stuff, so yeah.
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- Working as a tech designer, I've had people ask me
for years and years and years, what's coming next,
what does the future look like?
People want to know what it's gonna be style-wise,
but really I think the big question isn't how
things are gonna look, it's gonna be how should they work.
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- I've just run into Hugh.
He watches my videos.
What type of design do you do?
- I do motion graphic design.
- Cool.
- Probably title sequences and animation stuff like that.
- That's awesome.
I used to do motion graphics at university,
but then I went into graphics.
Anyway, we're just getting some drinks
before going into the Sneaks session,
where you can see people lining up behind us.
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So I just went to my first Adobe Sneaks,
does someone wanna help me explain what that was, Karen?
Do you wanna?
- Sure, that's where they have Adobe employees
showing new weird technology that they've developed.
- Yeah, like--
- And dump some Adobe products.
- Yeah and it's like a lot of cool stuff,
that you can see how it would
fit into actual Adobe apps someday.
What was your favorite one, do you have one?
- My favorite one is, I forget what it was called,
but its where it automatically finds the subject of a video
and crops it staying with the subject, so you can
turn a wide video into a vertical video automatically.
I need that today.
- Yeah, definitely.
And you were saying that Instagram should buy that,
I agree.
- Oh yeah, Instagram needs that built in.
- Mine was Project Gas Mask, which was like rotoscoping
- So good.
- But just clicking three points.
- Yup.
- So good.
Look who we've got over here.
- Oh hey there.
More design Youtub in my plane. (laughing)
What was your favorite part Dan?
- Well I kinda want all of them,
because they're all like, super--
- Okay well if you had to pick.
- I have to pick one.
- Yeah.
- Project Kazoo.
- Okay.
- Because I'm not a musician, I can't sing,
but for me to have a chance to make music.
- Yeah, explain what it was quickly.
- So Project Kazoo, essentially you can just sing
♪ La la la la la la la ♪
- There we go, now you're singing on camera.
- Oh no.
- And it would turn into an instrument.
- Yeah you can like, what was it a violin, a cello.
- Yup.
- Saxophone, it was like what?
- Yeah, that was super cool.
What about you Adam?
Adam is a new friend that I just met.
Do you have a favorite?
- Probably the moving photos.
- [Charli] Yeah?
- Pushing and pulling and changing the--
- [Charli] Yeah, that was pretty cool.
- I like that.
- [Charli] Turning a still image into a moving one.
- Yup, definitely.
- Should we go to the party now people?
- Yes.
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- Oh my gosh, so that party last night was so fun.
It was huge area by the stadium, they had all these
amazing decorations and stuff to take photos of,
I took some cool Instagram snaps.
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It was a lot of fun.
It was super fun to see Beck.
I've never been to a conference that had a show before.
It was in a proper stadium, with open roof and everything,
and Beck was really great,
it was super fun to dance all night.
Anyway I've just been doing some work here this morning
after a little bit of a slower start to the morning,
because I was up quite late,
and then I'm about to head over to the conference
for some lunch and some more sessions
to end out Adobe Max.
I can't believe that it's almost come to an end.
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- Me and Dan wandering around the, what's this called,
the pavilion.
- Hey, pavilion, yeah.
- Just looking at stuff.
- Mmm.
- I think it's less busy than yesterday but you said
there was a huge line this morning.
- Oh yeah you didn't want to be in that queue this morning.
- Yeah.
- That was long.
- Yeah.
We just did a fun photo, as you saw,
this is apparently a selfie park,
we couldn't get it to work.
- Nah, I think Charlie broke it.
- Yeah, my bad.
Let's just go down this way I guess.
Got these little stalls selling cool design-y
print-y things, and so I bought a print, and a pin,
and a sticker.
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- It's really sunny so excuse me while I squint,
but wow, I just went to a really good session
about the next generation of designers,
and you know, people working in the design industry,
there was someone from a company called Big Spaceship,
who was talking about how they hire and do internships
and things, and someone from The Academy of Art,
I think is what it was called, so like a university
design school, talking about how they, teaching, and like
how the curriculum has changed and whatever these days.
It was fascinating.
At the moment I'm heading back to the convention center,
because that one was in an off-site meeting room,
to try and make it to one last session of the day.
And then Adobe Max will be over.
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- That, my friends, was my experience at Adobe Max.
Hope you enjoyed seeing the blog.
I know it was slightly chaotic, because filming a blog
at an event always is, there's always so much going on,
and I forget what I filmed.
You know how it goes.
I had such an awesome time.
I felt like every single person who I met there,
they were like my people, you know?
Like we had things in common, they were easy to talk to,
and I'm not very good at talking to strangers, so you know,
that is a huge plus for me.
Met a lot of great new people, and met up with some
design YouTubers, some friends, it was, yeah.
Really really good trip, and I'm so so thankful
to Adobe for flying me out for it.
Yeah, great conference all around.
Loved the Keynotes,
loved the Adobe Sneaks part in particular,
that was super fun, good stuff in the sessions,
really epic closing party.
I could definitely see this being a conference
that I return to, like, year on year.
Yeah, it was just really good.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the vlog,
hope you enjoyed seeing the experience and like,
coming along with me.
If you've got any questions about the event,
anything the vlog didn't cover,
then please feel free to ask them in the comments
and I'll answer them down there.
Thanks again for watching, give it a thumbs up
if you enjoyed it, and I will see you in the next vlog.
Bye!
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