On May 3, I hit the Shut Down button on Flying Dutchgirl and joined Adobe Systems as a senior technical editor. My group is a kind of SWAT team for help and support content for Adobe software and Adobe.com. It’s interesting and fun to be part of the company that changed so much by putting digital tools into the hands of designers and artists. I’m extremely pleased to be working with some very smart and talented people.
My cubicle (it’s a really nice cubicle) is at 7th and Townsend in San Francisco, in the stunningly redone Baker & Hamilton building that Macromedia moved into before Adobe acquired it in 2005. Now on the National Registry of Historic Places, and built in 1904 for a steel and hardware company, it was the building that established the neighborhood as a manufacturing and warehouse district. Read more history in John Dowdell’s post about the building. It’s the second pre-1906 building where I’ve worked in San Francisco (the first was the Call Building at Third and Market).
In Adobe’s ground-floor atrium, a post milled from an ancient Douglas fir
Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning, music, arts, science, and technology; this little sculpture was a gift from a friend who went to India, and she sits on my desk (Saraswati, not my friend) watching over my work
