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In the dying stages of innovation, companies at the top of the heap use their market power to maintain their high profits.

In my Adobe column of March, 2000, "Where Have All the Designers Gone?", I discussed the rift between aesthetically focused web designers and those chiefly concerned with creating good experiences online. 24 years later, how have things changed?

Why you can't build another Apple with VC bucks.

Even when it's ugly--especially when it's ugly--journalists owe readers the truth.

Stroll with us down memory lane as we celebrate the pearl anniversary of pixel art creation's primary progenitor, and some of the many artists and design languages it inspired.

The bots who shit in your sandbox are bigger, brassier, and better than ever!

While honeymooning in Rome, we spotted an Italian copy of my second book in the display window of a quaint old shop two blocks from the Colosseum. The ancient amphitheatre was our destination, but the strange sight of Designing With Web Standards in ...

"I'm not a '[full-stack] developer,' regardless of what my last job title says. I'm not even a front-end developer. I'm a web designer. And I also specialize in accessibility, design systems, and design. I'm designing for the web. The infinitely ...

A business world with deeply misguided priorities--exemplified by horror stories from the worlds of tech, gaming, and entertainment--accounts for much worker unhappiness and customer frustration.

I have this friend. A mountain of unexpected medical debt buried his family at the start of last year. At the same time, the closing of his business stuck him with six figures of personal debt. Liquidating a retirement account and maxing out credit . ...