{"id":571,"date":"2026-05-05T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:38:57","slug":"adobe-re-invents-the-wheel-time-and-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/2026\/05\/adobe-re-invents-the-wheel-time-and-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Re-invents The Wheel \u2013 Time And Time Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This article from 2011 is the first out of four that I wrote on this topic over ten years. For the other three, see the links below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same dialogue box from five different Adobe apps. Can you find all differences?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Unsaved-Dialogs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Unsaved-Dialogs.png\" alt=\"The Save Changes dialogue from five Adobe Apps, all different in many details\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Unsaved-Dialogs.png 600w, https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Unsaved-Dialogs-360x600.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>None of them is a \u201csheet\u201d as mandated by Apple, so they are not attached to the document window.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All have different sizes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes the text is left-aligned with the buttons, sometimes not<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oh boy, the spacings of the elements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two dialogues have no window title (both CS5-apps), three have one. Two of those are from preview apps (so brand new). But all differ (\u201cAdobe Photoshop\u201d, \u201cSave Document\u201d, \u201cSave Changes\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Muse app\u2019s dialogue (the only Air-app) has the \u201ctraffic lights\u201d in the title bar with the red \u201cclose\u201d-button as the only active option<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The icons are big or small. They are either only the app icon, or the warning sign, or both. They aren&#8217;t even the same with the two CS5-apps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the German version both \u201cSpeichern\u201d or \u201cSichern\u201d are used, This too is different in the CS5-apps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Edge\u2019s buttons are not only named \u201cNo\u201d and \u201cYes\u201d, it also puts the destructive choice close to the safe one<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Muse paints its own buttons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Text is bold or regular, but at least that is the same in the CS5-apps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the other hand, the text is phrased differently in those two apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparantly, Adobe invents even a standard dialogue with every app anew. What\u2019s bad is not only that they differ at all, but the amount of work that is put into this every damn time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Adobe\u2019s save dialogues through the years:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adobe Reinvents The Wheel\u2014time and Time again<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/2026\/05\/babylon-adobe-2013\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"573\">Babylon Adobe 2013<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/2026\/05\/babylon-adobe-2017\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"577\">Babylon Adobe 2017<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/2026\/05\/babylon-adobe-2021-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"585\">Babylon Adobe 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at the inconsistencies in one standard dialogue in Adobe apps. First article (from 2011) in a series of four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-interface-design","tag-adobe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vRUO-9d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goesselgold.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}