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Adobe Comet Becomes Experience Design CC Offering A Free Preview For OS X

I recently covered some Project Comet updates hinting at more news in Q1 2016. Turns out this was true since Adobe just announced the official rebranding of Comet to Experience Design CC. Classified as Adobe XD, this is […]

Social News CMS Platform Pligg Is Done & Buried

The open source Digg clone Pligg has officially shut down. It was sold to a marketing agency on December 16th, 2015 for a price just north of $50,000. Pligg first launched in 2005 and has been running for […]

Mastering React: New 250-Page Book For Advanced ReactJS Development

Mastering React is a new book published by Packt Publishing for intermediate-to-advanced ReactJS developers. Written by pros Adam Horton and Ryan Vice, this covers all the advanced topics you could ever need for powerful React applications. The book […]

ArtCenter College of Design Reveals A New Website Layout

The prestigious ArtCenter college recently launched a much cleaner grid-oriented redesign of their website. This new design showcases the professional attitude of the school spanning a history of over 80 years. Right off the bat I’m a big […]

Cracker Barrel Redesigns Their Website With A Fond Rustic Layout

The old time country store Cracker Barrel quietly launched a new website design in Q4 2015. It features many old-timey elements with a rustic feel reminiscent of the era it represents. Looking over the homepage it’s much easier […]

BuddyPress 2.5 Supports Custom Emails With A New Email API

With the release of BuddyPress 2.5 beta comes a bunch of new features like emoji support and a brand new e-mail API. This news comes straight from the BuddyPress dev team’s support ticket which explains e-mails will be […]

Fast Company’s Redesign Goes Modular With A Magazine-Style Layout

Fast Company has released a sitewide redesign for their main website and subsequent brands like Co.Design. This has been slowly rolling out for months and was just recently pushed live for all readers. The goal of this redesign […]

Adobe Rebrands Flash into Adobe Animate CC

Adobe has finally announced the release of Animate CC. This program will replace the beloved Adobe Flash, originating from Macromedia which merged into Adobe during the 2005 buyout. News started circulating back in autumn 2015 when Adobe first […]

InVision Labs Announces Craft: A Free UI Plugin for Sketch and Photoshop

InVision just announced a free UI design plugin named Craft. It’s completely free for both Sketch and Photoshop made to accelerate your workflow. Craft offers time-saving content building features for screen designers. It can auto-populate realistic data like […]

About.me Redesigns their Homepage with Snazzy New User Profiles

About.me has a beautiful new facelift that’s been rolling out over the past few months. The site was originally launched in 2009 as a personal website/portfolio service. It was meant to offer public profiles for anyone that wanted […]