Macworld reports that Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of acclaimed camera app Halide, has rejoined Apple’s design team after a decade away. This hiring addresses Apple’s design team challenges ...

Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer to the stars, has died at 93. A post shared Jan. 19 on Instagram by his foundation and his own @realmrvalentino account reads, “Our founder, Valentino ...

Apple is testing a new design for App Store search ads on iPhone. Some users on iOS 26.3 are noticing that the blue background around sponsored results is no longer shown, blurring the line between ...

When Apple launched the App Store in 2008, it was impossibly influential to the future of the internet. The all-powerful world wide web was sliced and diced into bite-sized apps oft-dubbed Web 2.0.

What separates a good app from a great one? It’s not just functionality, it’s the way users feel when they interact with it. A clunky, inconsistent interface can frustrate users, no matter how ...

Affinity, which offers great alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, is popular for its one-time payment for a lifetime, as opposed to monthly recurring payments for Adobe ...

Craving an art fix but don’t know where to start? These new art influencers can help newbies and players navigate openings, events and listings. By Martha Schwendener “In the 1950s, you could do the ...

As a full-time Android user who keeps an iPad Mini and an old iPhone 13 Pro Max on my desk to check out the supposedly greener grass, I am very happy with my digital allegiances. And when Apple rolled ...

What if you could transform your entire creative workflow with just one update? That’s exactly what Affinity promises with its biggest update ever, a bold leap forward that’s turning heads across the ...

After acquiring Serif last year, Canva has overhauled its Affinity design suite, consolidating three creative tools into a single free app for Mac and Windows. The newly launched Affinity by Canva ...

The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...