Adobe Comp CC empowers designers to create and explore digital and print layouts on-the-go, wherever they are. Now Comp CC is being recognized by a pioneer in the mobile technology market: Apple has named it one of the best apps of 2015. Last week, we asked UX designer Jason Robinson how Comp CC is making it easier and more fun to create website wireframes on his iPad Pro. Now, it’s graphic designer and eBooks expert Dave Lewis’ turn.
Dave is using the app to do some pretty extraordinary work to help children with autism. He’s using Comp CC to storyboard an interactive, read-aloud eBook called Mood Buddy Adventure, based on an app he designed to help kids on the autism spectrum express their feelings to adults.
“It’s almost like Adobe knew what I wanted.”
Dave says the story ideas were piling up in his life. He needed to be able to explore his layout concepts on-the-go,creating eBook pages and websites when he wanted, not just when sitting at his desktop computer. Comp CC for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro has made that a reality.
“This iPad is an ideal tool to help visualize ideas from your armchair, or while out and about. I can draw a storyboard, either on paper or digitally [on an] iPad, then use Adobe Comp CC to layout the images with text.”
He says the intuitive gestures Comp CC uses to do things like insert placeholder text or images, have been easy to master.
“Everything just works seamlessly.“
Dave has fully integrated Adobe Comp CC into his workflow. He uses the app to import his sketches and “pre-visualize” his eBook, then he sends his work to Photoshop CC and After Effects CC to create finished products.
“From drawing, to iPad, to desktop. It just works. I particularly enjoy how the gestures work with iPad. A wonderful, intuitive way to work.”
He appreciates how easy it is to send his storyboards and layouts to apps for touching up, simply calling the process “brilliant.”
“A dream to work with.”
Comp CC is more than just another tool in Dave’s toolbox, he says it’s empowered him to explore his creativity wherever he goes.
“The main benefit of working with the app for me is the ability to take my layouts with me anywhere and work on them when an idea hits me. Originally I would work with pieces of paper, blue tacked to a wall. Now I can take the wall with me, then send to a desktop app when I am ready.”
Dave is also using Comp CC to redesign his website and layout his first comic book made for Amazon’s Kindle. Lots of exciting things to come from this eProducer, with Comp CC helping him out the whole way.
Curious how Comp CC can help you from inspiration to production? Click here to download Comp CC and find out now.