All this week, I am guest-blogging on the Adobe XD site, Inspire.

I am also cross-posting (slightly-modified) versions to my own site, TobyJoe.com.

Monday and Tuesday focused on a concept I’ve had for a while: the usability problems with mobile technology (like iPhone apps) seems to be building empathy for less-able (physically or otherwise) users among creative types. My hope is that usability will eventually trump novelty in creative portfolios, but I know that desire is pretty naive. Read Mobile Designers and Empathy.

Today I gave a light overview of the move digital artists (like our own Robert Hodgin) from Flash to Processing to C++ frameworks like OpenFrameworks. I also hinted at one of our internal frameworks that should get some attention later in the summer and explained why these frameworks are important to artists. Read Toward the Bare Metal: From Flash to Processing, OpenFrameworks, and Beyond.

I will post links to each article for the rest of the week. They will be as light and short and topical, but I hope they’re interesting.