I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me.

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so this latest collection is a billet-doux celebrating the best of the web this month.

As independent type foundry Colophon joins Monotype, I catch up with Colophon’s co-founder Anthony Sheret to chat about the state of the industry.

rom a small bed & breakfast opened in the founder’s rented house, to a billion dollar multi-national hospitality company — one thing that is crucial to their success has been design.

Should we embrace this as inevitable and tell our kids they no longer need to learn to code? There’s strong evidence that AI has already surpassed the ability of human coders, let’s look at three datapoints…

European app makers are seething, comparing Apple to “the Mafia” and piling pressure on lawmakers to act.  

Are you ready for the worldwide Creative Cloud price hike?

Summary:  Unsure how to design and implement user-interface patterns? Use this collection of links to our content about specific patterns.  

When fast onboarding gets in the way of long-term retention.

In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it. In fact, I’m very skeptical of AI myself, despite my role at Microsoft as an accessibility innovation strategist who helps run the AI for Accessibility grant program. As with any too