Design > Features

Designing products and services that resonate with customers takes more than just a few stock demographics reports. By studying practices of successful companies, you can apply the same techniques to your own endeavors. In this podcast, Derrick Story interviews three of the four authors of "Subject to Change," who provide insights about how prosperous businesses can--and should--use customer experiences to inform and shape the product development process, from start to finish.

tags: design, industry, innovation, podcast

Design > Features

Creative Suite expert and author of the Adobe Photoshop and InDesign CS3 One-on-One books Deke McClelland offers a step by step tutorial on how to use InDesign CS3's improved auto-numbering feature. Now InDesign can preserve your sanity by keeping track of your numbered lists automatically.

tags: auto numbering, how-to, indesign, page layout

Design > Features

What's new in Creative Suite 2 (CS2)? Jennifer Alspach runs down the list of the most compelling features in each CS2 app: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, Acrobat, and Version Cue, as well as Bridge, the new connector program in CS2. Jennifer is a coauthor of the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 2 Workflow (December 2005) from O'Reilly.

tags: adobe, photoshop, software, review

Audio > Features

With Pd (Pure Data), the graphical music toolkit for Windows, Linux, and Mac, you can wire up custom music programs no commercial software can duplicate--for free. Generate and process complex streams of MIDI and audio for live performance, build your own software synthesizer and effects, and even process video. Here's how to get started.

tags: audio production, programming, how-to