✏ Issue #510: Photoshop’s Journey To The Web, 20 Best New Websites, Code Font Tournament, Ethical Internet, and more…

At this week’s Adobe MAX conference, Adobe announced that design behemoth Photoshop will now run in the browser. The move, which mimics the approach of apps like Figma, has wide-ranging implications for hardware. Thomas Nattestad and Nabeel Al-Shamma explain how we got here in this fascinating post.

OK, hands up if you have an unfinished side-project that you just don’t know how to get over the line. If you do, you’re not alone; starting a creative project is half the battle, but the other half is finishing it. In this upbeat article Ward Andrews doles out some excellent advice on finally getting your masterpiece finished.

The end of October is fast approaching, and as usual, every month, we’ve put together this roundup of the 20 best new websites we’ve seen launched on the web in the previous four weeks. In October’s edition, you’ll find a gorgeous generative-code game, some uber-confident portfolios, a good death, and more. Enjoy!

The best box shadows are made up of multiple shadows that mimic how different light sources cast shadows across real-world objects. Box Shadow Generator is a nifty, free tool for designing layered box shadows. Create your shadows visually, then export the CSS, or view the gallery for inspiration.

One of the most lauded types of analytics data is the heatmap. Heatmaps tell you where users tend to click, or even to glance, on your site. They have been used to prove designs for years, but in this detailed post, Oliver Palmer argues their value may be overstated, and actual qualitative research offers better results.

There are some big questions surrounding the Internet: fundamentally, does it do more harm than good? In this interesting article, Allison Bondi looks at four current issues in 2021. She weighs the pros and cons of Internet access as a human right, the ethics of hacking, cookie tracking, and the various ills of social media.

The font you use when you’re coding has a massive impact on the quality of your code because readability directly affects your ability to spot errors. Not only that, but a good coding font makes hours in front of your IDE more comfortable. To help you choose well, Typogram has put together this fun font tournament.

Managing images in sites can be challenging, not least because the default behavior of some browsers is to distort images. In this excellent deep dive, Ahmad Shadeed walks us through both object-fit and background-size, explains when to use which, and how to ensure images display as your designer intended.