The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur.

Design tools often pack a lot of functionality around the bounding box of selected objects.

How do various design tools utilise memory? What’s their baseline usage with no documents open?

In Adobe Illustrator, the shape builder tool and the pathfinder panel can both add and and subtract segments of overlapping shapes.

A long-standing trope of the design world is that computers are bad at aligning and balancing the relative scales of elements. This is incorrect.

When viewing my vector icon speedruns, it can be difficult to see precisely what’s going on.

Apple’s HIG is great, but it doesn‘t contain much information related to designing menu bar extras.

If an SVG is imported into a design tool, then immediately exported as another SVG, how much precision is kept?

The following article is a random collection of opinions on how design tools should export SVGs.

When pushed, how do various design tools utilise the hardware they’re running on?

When working with colours, it can be common for their appearance to change unexpectedly when viewed in different design tools.

Figma, Photoshop, XD, and Affinity Designer all contain a blending mode called “pass-through”.

When viewing my vector icon speedruns, it can be difficult to see precisely what’s going on.

The Illustrator defaults aren't to my liking, and counter-intuitively, the pixel snapping feature isn't what I use to pixel snap.

There are many possible ways to create looping animations in Processing, but my favourite uses the frameCount system variable.

Many new devices and displays support wide gamut colour spaces - colours can be purer and more vibrant than previously.

I've been experimenting with creating SVGs programmatically, which opens up a world of possibilities.

I believe colour management is an essential feature for professional design tools.

Previously, we discussed how colour spaces are similar to units of measurement.

If someone asked you to build a coffee table and they specified the legs as a height of 50, what do you think that would mean?