Scott Belsky is the Chief Strategy Office and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe; prior to that he was Adobe’s first Chief Product Officer. This is Belsky’s second stint at Adobe: he was the founder of Behance, which was acquired by Adobe in 2012, and managed mobile and services for Creative Cloud.

I had a chance to talk to Belsky about not only his career path, but also about a momentous few years for Adobe: the company launched Photoshop on the Web, acquired Figma, and just a few weeks ago at Adobe Summit announced Adobe Firefly, its own AI image generation product. We covered all of this in this interview, along with discussions about Adobe’s business model shift, working with instead of against the Internet, and what he would tell future designers entering a world of AI.

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