Creative Reason » Fail http://www.creativereason.com Brian Schwartz's Blog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:53:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Google Product Integration Fail http://www.creativereason.com/google-product-integration-fail.html http://www.creativereason.com/google-product-integration-fail.html#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:11:29 +0000 Brian Schwartz http://www.creativereason.com/?p=431 So I went to view Google Ocean Showcase (which is supposed to be cool) in my default browser – Google Chrome. Unfortunately it failed. So did Google’s internal development team that should obviously be using their own browsers.

google-product-integration ]]> http://www.creativereason.com/google-product-integration-fail.html/feed 0 Reason #1,244 Why I Hate Microsoft Word http://www.creativereason.com/reasons-i-hate-microsoft-word.html http://www.creativereason.com/reasons-i-hate-microsoft-word.html#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:54:13 +0000 Brian Schwartz http://www.creativereason.com/?p=337 So if you’re a designer and you’ve ever had to create a Microsoft Word or Powerpoint template for a client, you’ve felt this pain.

One huge UI improvement that would make my life easier is the ability to swap out one image for another but keep everything else the same. Size, layout, placement, etc.

If I need to export a new image in Illustrator or Photoshop because the client decides they want the color to be different (or if it doesn’t look right printed, or whatever), I end up having to reset all of these settings, by hand. Every time.

Instead of just choosing a new version of the image in Word, I’m forced to do a screen scrape and paste them in Photoshop just to be able to try a new version of the image. This is stupid and should be fixed.

Here is the screen grab of my settings in Photoshop with my feelings on the matter:

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Word Failure

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