Team Sharing

With creative teams, managing and sharing Adobe Illustrator assets can be a fragmented and time-consuming process. Without a centralized system, team members often rely on manual methods like email, shared drives, or chat threads to distribute brushes, swatches, or workspace settings.

This not only increases the risk of miscommunication and version inconsistencies but also hinders productivity. Designers spend more time searching for or recreating assets instead of focusing on creative work. The lack of standardized asset distribution across teams can lead to inconsistent design output, especially in volume content creation situations, larger teams or across departments.

To solve this, the Astute Manager Pro service introduces an intuitive drag-and-drop interface in a desktop app for creating asset packs. Designers can quickly bundle together associated graphical assets or Illustrator settings into a single, centrally-distributed pack. This simplifies organization and ensures that teams have a structured way to collect and distribute assets without relying on “hacks” or complex, unintuitive, opaque workflows. The simplicity of the drag-and-drop system reduces onboarding time and makes asset management accessible even to less technical users.

Created Asset Packs are designed for seamless sharing across teams. With just a few clicks, users can distribute packs to one or multiple teams, ensuring everyone is working from the same set of tools and design standards. Team members need only click once to download and directly install the asset in the correct location. The installed assets are permanently available in every Illustrator project. This eliminates the delays and inconsistencies associated with ad hoc asset sharing and ensures design teams stay aligned, even when working remotely or across time zones. Team Owners and Managers can also update packs centrally, so changes propagate quickly and reliably.

The Asset Packs’ versatility allows teams to share not only graphical assets like Illustrator Brushes and Swatches, but also workflow-enhancing settings such as Workspaces and Keyboard Shortcuts. The standardization of tools and environment streamlines collaboration, boosts consistency, and eliminates technical friction. This is especially valuable when onboarding new or temporary team members. Instead of relying on fragmented resources and complex instructions, new colleagues can get up to speed quickly and confidently.