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Supporting Artists through Subscriptions

Last week Kickstarter launched Drip, “a tool for people to fund and build community around their ongoing creative practice.” This…

Renting iTunes Movies and the Value of Ownership

Back in September Apple made a welcome improvement to iTunes by automatically upgrading, at no cost, its customers’ already-purchased movies…

Checking in on Design Entrepreneurship

Last month while in Las Vegas for Adobe’s annual MAX conference, I moderated a panel on design entrepreneurship. The notion…

Dumb Movies May Turn Out to Be Right About Photo Enhancement

For years we’ve groaned every time a character in a movie commands a computer to “Enhance!” a low resolution image,…

Movies Watched, October 2017

The only movie I saw in theaters in October was Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049.” Apparently, a lot of people…

On Adobe, Diversity, Design and More

When people ask me why I joined Adobe, my answer is simple: there are things that I get to work…

You’ll Probably Never Read the iPhone X Review That Would Be Most Useful to You

Apple’s new iPhone X was released just this past Friday and you can read any number of reviews of it…

How to Demo Software for 11,000 People

I’ve done a reasonable amount of public speaking in my career but until this year’s Adobe MAX conference, where I…

Never Use Futura

Helvetica, much as I adore it, has had more than its fair share of attention. That’s why I’m so happy…

Me at Adobe MAX 2017

Before I started working for Adobe, I never understood the scale of the company’s annual Adobe MAX user conference. This…