![]() ![]() This is misguided.”īeaumont responds that Adobe isn’t blind to Muse’s shortcomings regarding code and says there are plans to improve this aspect of the application as it evolves. Now Muse strives for print-like perfection, regardless of how many images and conditional comments that requires. He’s angry at Adobe for allowing this shortcoming: “Web designers are finally understanding the web as a medium in its own right, aspiring to be accessible and device-agnostic. Muse will no doubt be a massive help to people who don’t code - by, ironically, producing loads of it for them.”ĭeveloper Elliot Lewis complains that Muse’s output “ignores accessibility, load times, SEO and semantics” and Clearleft visual designer Paul Lloyd calls Muse’s code “meaningless, unstructured and inaccessible”. On delving deeper, though, it became painfully clear. “But I wanted to give Adobe the benefit of the doubt, and Muse initially looked good. “My first reaction on hearing Adobe had released a new app aiming to solve the ‘problem’ of making websites easy for everyone - or at least print designers - was alarm bells going off in my head,” jokes graphic designer Tom Muller. ![]() Unfortunately for Adobe, its code-free stance doesn’t lead to refined output. Due to the layout-based nature of Muse, the commentary makes a big deal about the app not requiring coding knowledge worse, it almost seems to belittle coding, arguing web designers won’t code at all in years to come, and maintains the overlap between ‘coders’ and ‘graphic designers’ is small. However, those web designers and developers we spoke to have reacted in horror at Muse, not least to claims made in Adobe’s marketing videos. “But we felt we’d best address our target customer with a new product, targeted solely at their needs,” she adds. It was specifically intended to take a different approach from Dreamweaver, although the company nonetheless considered incorporating Muse’s features into InDesign, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Adobe Creative Cloud: everything you need to knowīeaumont tells us there are “many shades of grey between ‘designers’ and ‘developers’,” and says Adobe’s market research revealed Muse would be positively received by print-centric graphic designers. ![]()
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