Technology News + Reviews

Find hardware and software news and reviews, written specifically with designers in mind. Plus, stay abreast of new technology and interactive design trends.

A Look Back at HOW’s Website

Flashback to 1995, the year the Internet became commercialized. Let’s take a journey back to an age when pages took several minutes to load and watch howdesign.com develop into the site we know today. More

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Web Design Tools: Previews of Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge

Adobe Previews New Tools for Web Design. Adobe Muse targets print designers who’d like to work on the web. Adobe Edge enables Flash-like animation using open web standards. More

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Behance Announces ProSite!

Over the years, our friends at Behance have been helping designers build their careers and get exposure for their work. They’ve just announced a new service called ProSite, which allows designers to build customized portfolio sites (with no Behance branding … More

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Adobe: Flash Catalyst

To introduce you to a new world of design possibilities, HOW and Adobe asked some of their favorite designers to convert their static print work to fully interactive projects—without writing code!—by using Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, part of Adobe Creative … More

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What’s New With Digital Publishing Tools

New releases of QuarkXPress 9 and Adobe InDesign CS 5.5 highlight tablet publishing and E-books. More

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Technology Review: Fontdeck

Designers now have a wealth of typographic options for their web projects. HOW’s longtime technology columnist Stephen Beale sorts through all the web font services out there. In this review, he looks at Fontdeck.
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Technology Review: Webtype

Designers now have a wealth of typographic options for their web projects. HOW’s longtime technology columnist Stephen Beale sorts through all the web font services out there. In this review, he looks at Webtype from Font Bureau and Ascender Corp.
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Technology Review: WebInk

Designers now have a wealth of typographic options for their web projects. HOW’s longtime technology columnist Stephen Beale sorts through all the web font services out there. In this review, he looks at WebInk from Extensis.
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Technology Review: Web Fonts

Designers now have a wealth of typographic options for their web projects. HOW’s longtime technology columnist Stephen Beale sorts through all the web font services out there. In this review, he looks at Web Fonts from Fonts.com.
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Technology Review: Typekit

Designers now have a wealth of typographic options for their web projects. HOW’s longtime technology columnist Stephen Beale sorts through all the web font services out there. In this review, he looks at Typekit.
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