T he holidays are nigh. And if that information feels daunting, you're not alone. With everything going on in the world, it's now even harder to focus on finding the perfect gifts. How can you hit the stores when the very fabric of our democracy is threatened?

Bucking the national mood, Pantone has selected a decidedly optimistic new color of the year: 2017 will be the year of Greenery ( 15-0343 TCX), "a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring when nature's greens revive, restore, and renew." Too bad half the country is seeing red-and orange.

It was a chilly autumn morning in New York City-one of the last days that would see brilliant red, orange, and yellow leaves hanging from the trees. On Wooster Street in SoHo, a small gathering of travel agency workers worked their way across the cobblestone road bundled under hats and heavy jackets.

Affinity Photo 1.5 is another huge update. From big new fundamental features such as macros, to other improvements like direct PSD write back, we've listened to all the feedback we have received and worked round the clock to get them in.

Just two weeks after I started working at Figma - almost a year ago - we kicked off the project of building Components. As someone who comes from a background in both design and engineering, I've noticed the way we design is very different than the way we build software.