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Stratechery on iPad as a Platform

Last Thursday, after Apple’s announcement of the new iPad Pro and the subsequent on stage demos from Microsoft and Adobe,…

Very Untimely Review of iPhone 6 Plus

When I bought my iPhone 6 Plus last fall, lots of friends and acquaintances wanted to know what I thought…

Found Them First and Other Meta Stories from Your Streaming Music History

Spotify’s Found Them First is a clever, web-based tool that mines your streaming music play history to show you the…

Results from the Subtraction.com Design Tools Survey

Way back in early June I put together a survey on Typeform all about design tools. The questions asked about…

The iPad Got Better Today

The headline items from the iPad segment of today’s Apple Special Event were hardware: the company announced a new, integrated…

Hobeaux

Hobeaux (pronounced ho-BO, emphasis on the second syllable) is a modern update of the historically scorned typeface Hobo. Its creator,…

Abandoned Shopping Malls on Video

Filmmaker Dan Bell shoots surreptitious videos of dying or abandoned shopping malls. They make for fascinating, car crash-level spectacles that…

DC Comics Style Guide from 1982

A treasure trove for comics nerds of my generation: this style guide was produced by DC Comics over thirty years…

Astropad

Like many apps that debuted on the iPad (no matter how compelling), the remarkable Astropad has apparently felt compelled to…

Where We Are Today with UX Prototyping Software

If there’s one reason why the category of design tools feels so rich with possibility right now it’s because UX…