How Illustrator (and other software) Gets New Features

There’s a VERY inter­est­ing new post from ex Adobe Illustrator Product Manager Mordy Golding on how Illustrator gets new fea­tures.

He goes into great detail into the process of how a new ver­sion of an appli­ca­tion as com­plex as Illustrator is planned and devel­oped and what kind of cri­te­ria the team needs to weigh to decide what fea­tures makes it in or not. It is a long post but a very com­pelling read that should be a real­ity check for any­one who are quick to crit­i­cize any soft­ware ven­dor when they do not imple­ment one’s pet fea­ture request into an application’s lat­est release. A MUST read!