It provides quick access to documents you’ve already been working on, displaying either thumbnails or a list of your recently opened files. The Start workspace is displayed when Illustrator is launched or when you have no documents open.
When you know where everything is and how to use the interface you workflow will become more efficient and you can focus on creating your lovely illustrations and designs. In this lesson we’ll take a look at the Illustrator interface and workspace.
In the previous Adobe Illustrator lesson you learned about the difference between vector and pixel based artwork and saw how to create a new document destined for printing.