Elements 2026 - Designing for User Success

A strategic redesign of the Adobe Elements experience built around user evolution, contextual relevance, and task efficiency. I established principles for simplifying workflows, improving information architecture, guiding users through the product, personalizing the experience across user levels, and integrating AI in ways that support real user needs.

Role

UX Design Lead

Industry

UX Design

Duration

6 months

Elements 2026 - Principles for user success

Providing up-to-date interface and interactions.

Frictionless, shorter workflows

Better information architecture. Bring essentials to the surface, finding the right placement of tools and

feature touch-points.

Guided sessions. Each session should be guided in some manner.

Relevancy and contextual intelligence. Enabling users.

Unification of ecosystem.

Seamless integration of AI features focusing on Elements user needs.

Good subscription transition experience.

Universal Information Hierarchy Principles - Content Prioritization & Contextual Relevance

Immediate needs and guidance

Dedicated to users’ betterment and utilization of the ecosystem. Balancing users’ growth by guiding them towards areas where they are lacking.

This includes actionable items like what’s new, unused features, and most relevant learning materials.

Task efficiency

This section is tailored to the user’s personal space and the user’s history with the application. In this space, it is not only recent files, as other Adobe

Applications show, but based on this principle, I have added recent imports and recently used features too. At a glance, the user can see everything the user is familiar with: files and features.

Personalized feature nudges

Next, we introduce relevant features to the user as ‘Try this’, for engagement and discovery.

Creation Updates

Displays auto-creations to keep users informed, as the user has scrolled down and is looking for something else. We may say keep Inspirations above this,

but this gets more points on the personalization front, and the Inspiration block can be a long one, so it is above the ‘Inspiration’ block.

Inspirations

Even if the user has scrolled to here by ignoring all above, I think the user can still use inspirations by looking at what other users are doing with the applications.

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