Microsoft quietly kills off Expression Design and Expression Web, adds some of its features to Visual Studio

Expression Design 4, Microsoft’s vector graphics design tool, has been quietly killed and is no longer available for sale nor will there be any new versions developed by Microsoft. The software is now ...

Turn Claude Code Into a Design Tool with Pencil.dev

Pencil.dev turns Claude Code prompts into editable, Figma-like designs; it supports UI kits, CSS variables, and JSON files ...

6 Design Products That May Be the Last of Their Kind

This article is part of our Design special section about buildings, objects and techniques that are fighting to stay alive. Though automation and mass manufacturing have brought us a world of ...

The Return of Wood-Paneled Walls—and Why They Feel Right Again

Once synonymous with ’70s interiors—think warm wood-clad basements or rec centers—wood paneling was frequently stripped out in favor of brighter, more modern treatments. Now, designers say it's making ...
Smithsonian Institution

Cooper Hewitt Announces 2026 National Design Award Winners

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announced today the winners of the 2026 National Design Awards. Launched in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the National ...
Joy of Android

GitHub Games and the Open Approach to Game Development

GitHub games are open-source projects for testing gameplay ideas, sharing code, and collaborating publicly outside ...