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Adobe Acquires Ideacodes

By TechTaffy Desk

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Adobe has acqhired design consultancy firm Ideacodes. The co-founders of Ideacodes, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler are joining Adobe as creative directors of Creative Cloud.

Ideacodes is based in San Francisco. Its clients include Automattic, Read Write Web, Programmable Web, SOMA, and Adobe, among others.

 

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