Phil Clevenger - Lightroom Interface Designer
July 6th, 2008 | Published in Adobe, Featured, Lightroom | 19 Comments
Phil Clevenger is the man behind the Lightroom user interface. Phil and I sat down to chat about what brought him to Adobe – and what he learned from his time at MetaCreations designing rule-bending interfaces for software like Bryce and Kai’s PhotoSoap. He also gives some hints at some possible directions of the Lightroom UI, and his philosophy around the evolution of user interfaces in general.
Read more on the Lightroom Development Story
Note: Phil also designed the user interfaces for Poser 3 and 4, as well as KPT Vector Effects
July 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm (#)
nice one! again! so very cool. especially as I loved poser and KPT. and he does a brilliant job, especially after having used aperture for a day as my lr beta kinda died :-D. aperture has such an amazingly bad look and feel and ui. I really didn’t like it at all. and I don’t want to be the big hater, but its how I felt, so extra kudos to phil!!!
keep rocking. both of you!
regards
teymur.
p.s.: maybe one thing though… hope its ok… the magnifying glass thingy was quite nice… maybe that would be an idea for LR too…
July 6th, 2008 at 10:44 pm (#)
Lightroom is brilliantly beautiful - thank you! It’s been our main reference for how we want our apps to look and feel! I hope to meet you some day and thank you in person!
Rock on!
DJ
July 7th, 2008 at 7:28 am (#)
[...] Phil a long time ago at Metacreations. He was the main interface designer (along with Kai Krause). Here is an interview with him about what brought him to Adobe – and what he learned from his time at MetaCreations [...]
July 7th, 2008 at 12:14 pm (#)
This is a great interview. Thanks FrederickVan & Phil. I have had the pleasure to work with Phil back at MetaTools and later at Cooperating Systems. I tip my hat to the entire team for the hard work, dedication, soul and beauty that went into the Lightroom UI. Lightroom is a beautility!
July 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm (#)
Lightroom is so beautiful and it’s a pleasure to work with it every day. Thank you Phil and the whole team.
Oh and hi Kai. It’s long ago… winke winke
July 8th, 2008 at 6:20 am (#)
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:22 am (#)
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July 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm (#)
Great interview Frederick. Thanks!
-Ward
July 9th, 2008 at 7:57 am (#)
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July 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pm (#)
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July 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 am (#)
Fascinating, also the parts about Bryce and other KPT software. Great interview Frederick, thanks for posting this!
July 29th, 2008 at 10:45 am (#)
I’d have liked to have listened to this interview, but however I tried to access it, I couldn’t hear the sound - it was like a very distant mutter. (I don’t have separate speakers for my PowerMac G5.) Usually, I’ve been able to download podcasts and listen to them through my hi-fi, but couldn’t see how to do this (plus of course, I’d have preferred to see the guy’s face).
August 8th, 2008 at 2:45 am (#)
[...] combining a state of the art RAW converter, basic digital asset management technology and thanks to Phil Clevenger a revolutionary user interface. Additional functionality to ease printing and web gallery output [...]
August 13th, 2008 at 7:57 am (#)
[...] TH: I really appreciate the flexibility we’ve had to innovate outside of the evolutionary improvements that are taking place within the Creative Suite or Photoshop. This isn’t to say that a product like Photoshop isn’t making great strides in improving their interface or user experience but there are certain design constraints that Lightroom is able to break in order to satisfy the photographic workflow with as much efficiency and elegance possible. Phil Clevenger recently discussed this process in an interview with Lightroom’s product marketing manager, Frederick Johnson. [...]
August 16th, 2008 at 5:31 am (#)
I use Lightroom only because RawShooter was acquired by Adobe. I really liked RawShooter for the sheer speed and the intuitive keyboard shortcuts.
I would very much like it if Lightroom was to enable alternate shortcut mapping as some of the current shortcuts are very non-intuitive as well as not easy to get to (placement-wise) on the keyboard.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:00 am (#)
[...] Van has a video interview with Phil Clevenger, the interface designer behind [...]
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 pm (#)
Great programme. I would like to have Photoshop Album back as a separate application and it UI in the style of Lightroom.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:48 am (#)
[...] TH: I really appreciate the flexibility we’ve had to innovate outside of the evolutionary improvements that are taking place within the Creative Suite or Photoshop. This isn’t to say that a product like Photoshop isn’t making great strides in improving their interface or user experience but there are certain design constraints that Lightroom is able to break in order to satisfy the photographic workflow with as much efficiency and elegance possible. Phil Clevenger recently discussed this process in an interview with Lightroom’s product marketing manager, Frederick Johnson. [...]
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