The fist version of Adobe Acrobat was released in 1993, alongside the newly created PDF format. What has changed since then? Our guest today is Liang-Cheng Lin, senior design manager at Adobe. You'll learn about the philosophy behind their platform, how PDF has evolved into a powerful editable format, and UX challenges they face as one of the most popular tools in the world.

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Show Notes

PDF — a Wikipedia article
Adobe Scan — Adobe's new mobile scanner app
Perfection, Good Design, and the Art of Both — Liang-Cheng's article about designing Adobe Scan
Document Cloud at Adobe Blog
Follow Liang-Cheng on LinkedIn

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