We have found an actual letter written by Steve Jobs directly answering the question of “Why the iPhone does not run Flash applications?”.

First of all, designing for email is not the same as designing for the web. Where as website browsers keep evolving, email clients seem to be going in the other direction thus making a lot of emails look like nothing is there. Or the email if filled with a bunch of question marks that frankly, I don’t even bother with, because it is too much work to even try and let the email program view the image. The common email user would just ignore the email entirely, and there goes your carefully thought of email blast or newsletter… In the trash!

Take it from me, Archer’s young-blooded intern, making an impression on Generation Next (my demographic cohort), is neither Jello pudding nor Pillsbury apple pie.  Our attention is generally distracted, flittering between one device and the next, from one social media platform to another. We are quick to control what enters our collective consciousnesses by fast-forwarding [...]

Are micro-payment stock sites killing the professional industry?
Being a designer of a “certain age” I remember when stock photography was an expensive necessity, and hiring an illustrator was the norm. Pouring over glossy catalogs where these professionals showed their work and picking just the right technique for what you wanted to portray, was always a [...]