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Soothing typographic train rides for chilled writing

Why we want to know how things are made.

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iA Notebook Wins Red Dot: Best of the Best 2025

The iA Notebook has just won the Red Dot “Best of the Best” in Product Design 2025.

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The highest distinction for pioneering designs

After a wonderful week in San Francisco and Mountain View, the week ended in a disaster when my colleague and friend Adam was told to find another role at Google – Roughly translated: they fired him without actually firing him.

Like moss on a star destroyer

Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

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To smoothly animate things like borders as part of a View Transition, you need to duplicate that animation onto the ::view-transition-group. For best effect, have the View Transition separately capture the background and foreground of the element you’re animating.

New in Chrome 134 on Android: the ability to place the Address Bar (aka “Omnibox”) at the bottom. To enable it, go to Chrome’s Settings, locate and tap “Address Bar”, and choose “Bottom”.

Beware when manipulating the coordinates of the View Transition’s ::view-transition-group(*) pseudo. Depending on where you read those coordinates from, you might end up with layout jumps when writing them back. This post details the pitfalls and how to deal with them, unlocking more performant animations on the ::view-transition-group() pseudo along the way.

Martin Winkler published a package that polyfills Element.matchContainer to get notified in script when a Container Query matches/unmatches. Under the hood, it uses a StyleObserver.

The all new iA Writer for Windows

Last December we released the iA Writer for Windows 2.0 beta as part of the iA Winterfest giveaway. After further tweaks and testing we're pleased to announce that the update has been released.

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iA sponsors NYC Midnight 2025

iA as a title sponsor for the second year running.

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Tutorials, videos, and tips for story telling

Tutorials, videos, and presentation tips to help you become a better storyteller.

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And the winners are...

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: the 2024 iA Award winners are...

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The NYC Midnight 2025 Short Story Challenge