On Thursday May 12th I Left Macromedia at 1:35pm. Just enough time to make back down to San Jose by 3pm.

I’d been to Adobe once before – when they were in their old offices back in 1994. I interviewed for a software engineer job that I didn’t get. But I still have the nice black and red adobe mug they gave me, my sole prize for the two days of interviews I had.

Anyway – Adobe is headquartered in two towers (hmmm) on Park Avenue, San Jose. When I saw them, and the adobe logo on top of the 20th floor, I sad “wow”. By far the biggest most archiectually dominant building I’d seen on the tour.

Katja, my most excellent host, met me downstairs and we headed up to the conference room. Highlight of the walk up was the gorgeous basketball court on a large patio between the towers. Awesome (although it seemed like a windtunnel – not a place for an afternoon picnic – long range gamers would suffer).

At the talk: spoke to a mid-sized group of 30 or 40 people. Met Tarjin, a usability engineer I knew back at Microsoft, who’s now at Adobe. By 3:05pm we were underway. The group was fun – most receptive to jokes on the whole tour (or maybe my jokes were better? who knows). Talked about schedules and teams, and how to make things go well on a timeline. Got a few questions about design process and managing ideas on a timeline, and I pulled out some diagrams from Chapter 6.

I said goodbye to the adobe folks, and finally headed back to my hotel and my first dip in the swimming pool that’d been teasing me throughout the book tour.

Thanks to everyone that came out to see me – check out the book and let me know what you think.