Meet the 2015 InDesign Team
InDesignSecrets members will have seen this month’s interview with product manager Saurabh Mahajan in InDesign Magazine. But of course, as they say, “it takes a village.” And so I’d like to introduce you to the InDesign team in Noida, India:
- First Row: Sagar Khanna, Kaustubh Bansal, Ankur Gupta, Sandeep Grover (seated), Sudhir Kumar, Pushp Parag Agarwal, Deepak Gupta, Pradeep Verma, Anurag Wahi
- Middle Row: Preeti Rathore, Anshul Jain, Monica Singh, Anasuiya Gupta, Reena Agarwal, Gunjan Bhutani, Arvinder Singh, Rahul Vishwaroop, Sameer Manuja, Rahul Jain, Pragya Kandari, Mrinalini Sardar
- Back Row: Gaurav Bhargava, Sumit Garg, Vivek Ranjan, Mudit Rastogi, Mohit Yadav, Ankit Aggarwal, Ankur Mathur, Saurabh Mahajan, Rahul Jain
- Two tall men at back: Harjot Singh, Manish Jangir
They’re programmers, testers, support, architects, managers… but most importantly: These folks are working every day to make it easier and more fun to get your work done in InDesign!
Remember, when you choose About InDesign from the InDesign menu (Mac) or Edit menu (Windows), and then click the Credits button, you’ll see a long list of names…
So now you can put faces to some of them!
Posting this is exactly the kind of human and thoughtful gesture you would make. Coming from anyone else, it would be PR; from you, it’s just an everyday nice thing to do. It’s a good thing you’re running IDS and setting up conferences and other dedicated-to-helping-people stuff, because you’d be downright useless as a villain. :)
LOL, Alan! Thank you so much. Um… I think. (I’m going to have to get out my villain cape now, just to prove I can look the part.)
They seem nice but to be honest we are left hungry for several releases now mainly in the print side. In comparaison other Adobe products had some huge updates. I hope to see now bigger updates in the future and hope they implement all the things users ask for ages. There is still plenty of room for improvement. Cheers.
Where is Douglas Waterfall?
Fred: Douglas is still at Adobe but not on the InDesign team. Long story better told over a beer.
Oh wow, that is so sad. His work was so instrumental in what InDesign is today. Especially the text composition and long document features. Who will be able to step into his shoes and take over such complicated tasks?
Hey Sandeep, good to see you. It’s a long time we met at the IDUG meeting at NOIDA. Hope to see you soon.
Missing Apurv in the group…
The look like nice folks, but unfortunately, I get the impression that nobody is left on the InDesign team anymore who would know how to improve the Paragraph Composer or other typography tools. At least, they haven’t done anything to improve typography for print users in a long time, and it makes me think it’s because they let all those people who know how to do that leave the company.
To be clear, I hold leadership responsible for this, not the team themselves. And, I would love to be proven wrong about this. But it seems they are much more interested in dumbing down their product line so it will work on an iPad (look at Acrobat DC!).
As for real-world productivity enhancements, I expect those are a thing of the past, and we’ll see a version of InDesign that works on a watch before we see the ability to make a graph in Creative Cloud app.
I have the new indesign CC installed and when I started it up I realized the pointer and cursors are GIANT. How can you change the size of these please????
Lisa: That sounds like maybe a Prefs problem. Go to our FAQ (click “resources” in nav bar above) to see how to reset your preferences.
For several years, Adobe InDesign is no longer developed with the users’s requests in mind. Although at one or another public conferences we have the opportunity to meet the developers to submit our requests and impressions, usually it is the Marketing Department of Adobe — not really aware of the reality of the page layout profession — who decides which features will be added and / or improved. 99% of the requests by the users (during PepCon’s meeting with the developers for instance) do not make it in InDesign. Since InDesign CS6 the software’s quality has deteriorated: slowness, bugs in each version, half-baked features, badly conceived features, and the translation in other languages of the UI is getting worse at each version (especially in French, Italian,…).
As an InDesign fan and Instructer for more than 14 years, my wish is to be a member in this great team.
Thank you all for your efforts
Will we see any of the team at Pepcon this year?
Frederick: Yes, several key members of the team will be at PePcon. Really looking forward to that.
Someone forgot that Chris Kitchener is no longer at Adobe and forgot to remove his name. (Or did they lure him back?)
No, Chris is off doing other fun stuff now; but he was instrumental in the creation of CC2014, so I think it’s great that he’s still on the credits.
Is the ENTIRE InDesign team in India now? I.e. are there any Americans working for the company at all anymore?
I seem to recall that Quark made a similar move.
There are a lot of Americans working for Adobe — in San Jose, San Francisco, and Seattle (and probably elsewhere), as well as many people in Europe and Asia. But the InDesign engineering (programming) team is in Noida. Several of them (including Saurabh, Gaurav, Pradeep, and Gunjan in the photo above) were at PePcon this year, talking with customers one-on-one and in small groups. So great seeing them in person.
Did the American workers who used to develop InDesign suffer the same fate as the Disney IT professionals?
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html?_r=0
Very sad to learn that Chris Kitchener is no longer in charge – this AGI blog entry has more info:
https://www.agitraining.com/adobe/indesign/classes/adobe-indesign-product-manager-resigns-job-sent-to-india