Adobe is truly making an effort to become the go-to place
for those working in the creative field. To help boost is presence and reach,
Adobe recently acquired Thumb Labs, a New York-based mobile app design agency
to develop apps for Behance and Adobe’s Creative Cloud.
Thumb Labs was co-founded by Rich Kern and Jared Verdi
sometime in 2010 and has since then created a number of mobile apps for various
clients which includes a roster of start-ups including Bondsy, CanDoBaby and
ReadyForZero to name a few. In addition, the firm was also responsible for the development
of the current Behance app for iOS which is probably one of the reasons why
Adobe decided to acquire Thumb Labs.
According to Jarred
Verdi, the company will just see out existing contracts with its other clients
but beginning May 31 will start focusing its talents on a unified mission to empower
the creative world. Thumb Labs will be tasked to maintain Behance’s existing apps
as well as develop new ones which will include a tablet optimized app.
Thumb Labs is also expected to provide more emphasis in the
development of other Creative Cloud initiatives which would mean that its team
will have a huge probability of working with other teams at Adobe especially
those involved in the development of the Creative Cloud.
