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🟠 Every Child Matters / Chaque Enfant Compte 🟠

This is a chance to reflect, listen, acknowledge, and support Indigenous Canadians as we come to terms with the country’s horrific legacy of residential schools. One way to do that is follow the work and donate to the non-profit Orange Shirt Society 🟧 (https://www.orangeshirtday.org/orange-shirt-society.html).

We’re proud to support this organization through donation, at PFM. Thank you to them (and to artist Andy Everson) for the difference they are making in spreading awareness of the residential school experience and the steps necessary to “witness and honour the healing journey of the survivors and families,” in the name of reckoning and reconciliation.

For 2019, and PFM asked 7 designers and artists to pay tribute to the LGBTQIA acronym 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We’re still so incredibly proud of this project and the hugely talented creators behind it.

Our 4 core values in our Code of Ethics, which every PFM team member needs to sign, are to “Be Authentic,” “Keep Curious,” “Speak Up,” and “Stand Out.” We hope we’re making the world a bit better of a place, in the process, by lifting up and empowering LGBTQIA+ people in all the things we do, in our workplace and beyond.

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Bonne St-Jean, Québec! 💙🌈 // Happy Saint-Jean Baptiste Day, Québec’s national holiday, from our family to yours!

PFM est une fière enterprise québécoise, qui croit au travail incroyable et la créativité imparable des artistes et designers du Québec et du monde entiers. Merci à Cara Carmina, d’avoir crée cette superbe image montréalaise et de nous avoir permis de la partager 🙌
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PFM is a proud Québec company that believes in the incredible work and unstoppable creativity of artists and designers from Québec and around the world. Thank you to Cara Carmina, for creating this iconic, very Montréal image and for allowing us to share it.

👏After many months of hard work, close collaboration, and a whole lot of design love, the Learn destination launched with hundreds of tutorials and videos to help UX designers learn the tool and improve their craft. We’ve been proud to support the incredible team behind this, on both content and social media efforts, throughout their journey.

Now, with the completed Get Started section live, it truly is THE place to go to learn XD and level up your skills.

Check it out: https://www.adobe.com/products/xd/learn/get-started.html 💓

Emoji have become a huge part of how we communicate online, but do they truly reflect our diverse world? Some highlights from Adobe Creative Cloud global emoji survey:

😶Only half of emoji users think their identity is reflected
🌏 Most users believe emoji should do more to be inclusive
👪 Most users customize emoji and what more options to better reflect their identities
🕊76% of users feel emoji are a tool for creating unity, respect, and understanding

We worked with Adobe to help showcase these new insights about diversity and emoji. Check it out: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/04/15/towards-diverse-inclusive-future-for-emoji.html .yv1qb7

💖 “I am hopeful that by making our systems for interpersonal communication more inclusive, we will be able to see and understand each other better, empathize with each other more, and create a more cooperative culture that values the strength that comes from valuing diverse experiences and voices” ~ Paul D. Hunt

Mary W. Jackson, hidden figure no more 🚀 To commemorate NASA naming its HQ in Washington, D.C. after Jackson, the space agency asked Tracie Ching and six other artists to to create homages to the now-legendary engineer. 


Ching created this amazing portrait, and we asked her what it meant to her to honour Jackson, for Adobe Drawing. Check it out here: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/17/tracie-ching-nasa-mary-w-jackson-fresco-portrait.html .ypki2f

“The greatest success I could hope to achieve with this image is to help young girls feel seen. To let them know these people existed and changed things for the better just by being themselves.” ✨

Today is the day! 🎉 If you’re looking for a new job in tech at a company that values diversity and inclusion and values the LGBT+ community, check out QueerTech's Qareers Fair at 1pm ET/10am PT – Canada’s first national + job fair. Lots of exciting companies will be there 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Full details: https://www.q***rtech.org/qareers_virtual_fair

It’s been an honour for the PFM team to support and this event we’re so excited to see this kick off! 🚀

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We all know the importance of creating a North Star Vision for your projects, but how do you communicate it to others so they jump onboard with you? 🌟 The answer = design vision stories.

We worked with Gabi Duncombe to tackle this big question. Gabi shared her awesome expertise on communicating North Star Visions on projects that set you up for success. Check it out at https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/prototyping/how-to-craft-design-vision-stories/, where she looks at:

✅ How to define your design vision story
✅ How to format your design vision story
✅ Principles of a good design vision story
✅ Documents to help you along the way