Why did we care?
The baseline new experiences for Photoshop, Lightroom, and the Ps + Lr workflow were all in different stages. We desired to combine those into one seamless experience for users. We again used our internal (now public) framework to author the pages in Google Docs and then use custom code to apply styling. Each experience holds the users' hands as they learn common actions for each app, providing both an easy way to launch the app and also get started with a sample asset. This test was so successful that we created versions of it for Lightroom Classic and also translated it into Portuguese and Spanish.
And the tl;dr
This interactive video and timestamp UI combined the best of patterns from Canva, YouTube, and Unity Learn. We chose to try a different approach because of user painpoints we'd learned about while researching how folks perceive cross-app workflows. This feature was designed to give users multiple ways to learn as well as both a linear and non-linear path to learning, which is critical for users trying to learn two powerful apps and how they work together. Huge shoutout to the team for helping to test and implement this idea. It presented a lot of technical challenges, but was, in my opinion, worth it to think outside the box a bit.
Feel free to explore the interactive prototype or the live page. (The project is from 2021, so bugs are highly likely.)
