Adobe Photoshop is what many consider the core of Adobe Systems. This is the most popular system within the "Adobe Creative Cloud". Through this software, users can alter images in jpeg or png form, layer images on top of one another, create graphics, and digitally draw or paint. Because of this, users have coined the verb "photoshop" to describe altering an image

Photoshop

This software allows for image re-coloration. The service provides users with a "curve" that describes as-is lighting and coloration of photos. Users are then able to manipulate the curve to change an image's filter appearance. This is often used in portrait photography for airbrushing to create a cleaner finish of the subject's skin.

Lightroom

This software is used for video editing. Users import an uncut digital film and are able to trim pieces together, layer with other imported videos, add title cards, manipulate sound, and add coloration changes. This system is considered a professional level editing tool, hence the name, and is utilized by many major editing companies for feature films

Premiere Pro

This software, like Premiere Pro, is used for video editing. This difference is that After Effects dives deeper into the types of editing tools available. This service allows for greater manipulation of the video interface itself and permits special effects and minimal animation. This is often used alongside Premiere Pro for more dynamic, specialized shots

After Effects

This service allows for creating compelling, vector art and illustrations. It allows for grand designs on both Desktop and iPad versions. This is often used alongside Photoshop for placing smaller, Photoshop made graphics into larger-scale art or posters

Illustrator

Adobe XD is used by UX and UI designers for creating interfaces of websites, apps, and other mobile software platforms. It allows for prototyping, collaboration among users, and manipulation of voice, graphics, coloration, and sizing.

This tool is used for turning any document type (jpeg, png, psd) into a PDF. This is largely used in business for document resizing and manipulation.

Acrobat

This service is used mainly for creating posters, layered art, layouts, and formats using text, images, or digital art created on other Adobe platforms. This is often time used by publications for formatting their articles and images into a printable layout.

InDesign

Adobe's design system across platforms is called Spectrum.  The principles of the Spectrum design system are Rational, Human, and Focused.

Spectrum Design System

Graphic editing software used to create image compositions, add affects, edit websites, retouch photos and many more usages. It is the core of every digital project such as animation, digital painting, graphic design and photo edits. There are many well known adobe apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Creative Cloud and many more  

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- Google Material Design
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines
- Microsoft Fluent Design System
- Atlassian Design System
- Uber Design System
- Shopify Design System
- IBM Carbon Design System
- Mailchimp Design System
- Salesforce Lightning Design System
- Helpscout Design System
- US Web Design Government Design System
- IDEO Human-Centered Design Process
- Airbnb Lottie
- Ant Design
- Interactive Media Design
- Adobe Graphic System

Graphic Design Systems

"10 great design systems and how to learn (and steal) from them" 
https://uxdesign.cc/10-great-design-systems-and-how-to-learn-and-steal-from-them-4b9c6f168fa6

"10 great design systems" Medium article

Material Design is a system of guidelines built by Google that is focused on helping teams of designers and developers build the best regions, surfaces, and components in user interfaces. This system is the groundwork for both wide and narrow UI viewpoints that are applicable to Android, iOS, Flutter, and the web. 

Material Design System

IDEO uses their design process to solve human centered problems with creative solutions that directly addresses user needs. Their design process is a never-ending cycle of improvements
- Observation
- Ideation
- Prototyping
- User feedback
- Iteration
- Implementation

IDEO Human-Centered Design Process

HTML and CSS are core languages of the web, needed for building anything that is viewable in a web browser, like Chrome, or Safari, or Firefox. Interactive projects could be made using these core languages. 


Interactive Media Design: Creating Websites

The Human Interface Guidelines — “HIG” for short — offers in-depth information and UI resources for all of Apple’s platforms, including specific technology areas. The HIG is full of information for designers that can help them create more compelling, intuitive, and beautiful experiences and design better apps that integrate with Apple.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

Adobe Software  

This system is an open source toolkit for React components for "initiating, evolving, and unifying web applications" that is easily customizable. It is used for Uber's many internal web applications. This is a universal design system with a library of components and is meant to act as a tool that can be shared by designers, engineers, and product managers. 

Uber Base Web Design System

USWDS is a design system for the federal government that makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the American public

U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)

The Microsoft Fluent Design system is a cross-platform design system that was developed in 2017, and has guidelines for designs and interactions for Windows 10 devices and platforms.  There are five key components to the system: Light, Depth, Motion, Material, and Scale.

Microsoft Fluent Design System

"Carbon is IBM’s open source design system for products and digital experiences. With the IBM Design Language as its foundation, the system consists of working code, design tools and resources, human interface guidelines, and a vibrant community of contributors."

IBM Carbon Design System

IOS - Human Interface Guidelines are "software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations." Their goal is to improve the user experience by making more intuitive and consistent application interfaces. 

iOS-Human Interface Guidelines

Human interface guidelines (HIG) are software development documents that offer application developers a set of recommendations. Their goal is to improve user experience by making application interfaces more intuitive, learnable, and consistent. 

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