She Taught the Macintosh to Smile
The original Macintosh had a problem that had nothing to do with processing power: computers were intimidating. They spoke in commands…
The Death of the Portfolio (And What to Do Before You’re Left Behind)
For over a decade, the career advice given to creatives, developers, and digital professionals has been identical, hammered into our…
Turn Any Photo Into Retro ASCII Art in Seconds
What if your photo looked like it had escaped from a 1987 computer terminal? Image to ASCII turns JPGs, PNGs, WebPs, and…
This Website Found More Than 5 Million Forgotten iPhone Videos… and It’s Weirdly Emotional
An old iPhone feature accidentally created a massive archive of random lives, bad camera work, dogs, vacations, and very normal…
Canva Just Turned Affinity Into Adobe’s Biggest Free Problem
Canva has connected Affinity, Cavalry, Flourish, and Leonardo into a new pro-creative ecosystem—and it is keeping the core Affinity and…
This Weird 1973 Typeface Just Came Back From the Dead
Some typefaces age gracefully. Others disappear for half a century and come back looking strangely perfect for the internet. Clippy…
AI Can Build Your UI. Now Figma Can Tell It When It Screwed Up.
AI coding tools have become remarkably good at turning prompts into working interfaces. The awkward part comes afterward: does the…
25 Places Designers Can Still Find Free, Non-AI Images for Commercial Use
Finding a free image used to be simple. Search Unsplash, download something tasteful, and move on with your life. Now…
Chrome Can Now Measure Exactly How Obnoxious Your Website’s Ads Are
We’ve all opened that website: three ads before you reach the first paragraph, a giant sticky banner and a video desperately trying…
Cloudflare Just Gave AI Training Bots the Middle Finger
If you run a website, you probably want Google to crawl it. You probably don’t want every AI company on the planet…
Today, WordPress Ended a 16-Year Tradition… Meet Ipsum!
WordPress just broke one of its longest-running traditions. Today, the WordPress team unveiled Ipsum, the proposed new default theme for WordPress…
Photoshop Elements 2027 Adds AI Assistant, Generative Expand, and Upscale
Adobe today announced Photoshop Elements 2027, bringing a new wave of generative AI features to its simpler alternative to Photoshop. The…
Figma Is Turning Designers Into Plugin Makers
For years, most designers looking to extend Figma followed a familiar software ritual: you had a problem, searched for a…
TikTok Is Quietly Putting Web Apps Inside Its App
TikTok is already where millions of people go to watch videos. But buried inside its developer documentation is something considerably…
Firefox Is Getting Its Biggest Redesign in Years. Then Mozilla Got Cold Feet.
Firefox is about to look very different—or at least, it was supposed to… Mozilla’s long-in-development Project Nova redesign is expected to roll…
Adobe Has a Secret New Design Tool—and You Can Apply to Test It
Adobe is looking for designers to test Project Oasis, a mysterious web-based graphic design app that combines a “modern workspace” with brand-aware…
The Ampersand Is Nearly 2,000 Years Old — And Designers Still Can’t Agree How It Should Look
Today is World Ampersand Day, which means designers finally have an excuse to celebrate the hardest-working squiggle on the keyboard. The & is…
Canva Is Quietly Publishing Nearly 1 Million Websites a Month
Canva is best known for presentations, social posts and making everyone in the office think they’re a graphic designer. But…