Neowin News Feed for: Designer

People are furious that Microsoft is killing off Publisher

Usama Jawad — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:22:04 +0000

Microsoft's Publisher shutdown sparks fury as users face locked files, forced migrations, and what many call another careless kill-off. Read more...

Closer Look: Color Picker in PowerToys on Windows is an excellent tool for designers

Usama Jawad — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:20:01 +0000

Color Picker in PowerToys is a very small but useful utility for a specific set of Windows customers. Read more...

Microsoft Designer adds new features for making AI-assisted custom invitations

John Callaham — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:18:01 +0000

The Microsoft Designer app has added yet another new feature. It now allows users to create custom-made invitations, with the use of its AI art creator, either with pre-made designs or fully custom. Read more...

Microsoft Designer adds support for creating custom greeting cards

John Callaham — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:32:02 +0000

The Microsoft Designer AI art creator has now added specific support for making custom greeting cards. Users can type in text prompts, and the Designer will use AI to make them greeting cards. Read more...

Microsoft Designer now allows you to create both landscape and portrait images

Pradeep Viswanathan — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:20:01 +0000

Microsoft Designer lets users to create their own images using AI. Until now, Microsoft Designer only allowed users to create their images as a Square (1024 x 1024), which is not ideal for everyone Read more...

Microsoft 365 Roadmap Weekly: Designer is coming to Word and more

John Callaham — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:52:01 +0000

In this week's Microsoft 365 Roadmap recap, we look at Word on most platforms getting integration with Microsoft Designer, copy-and-paste improvements for Outlook, more AI for Teams, and more. Read more...

Copilot for Microsoft 365 adds GPT-4 Turbo model; ditches cap limits on turns and chats

John Callaham — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:22:01 +0000

Microsoft announced today it is now offering priority access to OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model for Microsoft 365 users, along with support for unlimited chats and turns for those users. Read more...

Microsoft 365 mobile app is adding the Designer image AI feature and more

John Callaham — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:16:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced some new features that are rolling out now or soon to the Android and iOS Microsoft 365 app. They include access to the Designer image AI feature and much more. Read more...

Microsoft has blocked the use of more text prompts from its Designer AI image creator

John Callaham — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:32:01 +0000

A new report says Microsoft has blocked the use of some more text prompts from its Designer AI image creator, a few days after a company employee continued to express concerns about the service. Read more...

A Microsoft whistleblower is continuing to sound alarms on its Designer AI image creator

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:30:02 +0000

The Microsoft employee who made headlines earlier this year stating his concerns about its Designer AI image creator has now provided more evidence that the app's guardrails don't work. Read more...

Microsoft is adding new Copilot AI features for its first birthday, and more are coming

John Callaham — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:16:01 +0000

In a new interview, Microsoft Vice President Yusuf Mehdi revealed that Copilot is adding new image-creation features such as a way to blur the background of an AI-created image and more. Read more...

Microsoft patched the Designer AI loophole that was used to make Taylor Swift deepfakes

Mehrotra A — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:36:02 +0000

Microsoft has addressed the loophole that was reportedly used by Telegram channels and 4chan members to create explicit images of Taylor Swift that went viral last week on X and other platforms. Read more...

Microsoft unveils new Designer, Microsoft Create, Bing Image Creator, and Clipchamp

Sayan Sen — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:00:12 +0000

Microsoft, at Ignite 2022 today, has announced a whole host of tools and features for creators. These include the new Designer app, Bing Image creator, a new Create website, and Clipchamp for M365. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: The return of IE, Windows 11 build 25174, and app previews

Usama Jawad — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 17:16:01 +0000

This was an absolutely jam-packed week in terms of Microsoft news. We have so much to uncover when it comes to Internet Explorer's return from the grave, Dev Channel builds, and some app leaks. Read more...

More details about Microsoft's "Designer" tool leak

Usama Jawad — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 09:56:01 +0000

Some details about Microsoft's unannounced utility "Designer" have leaked once again. It seems that the tool will leverage AI to create designs for you that can be published to social media platforms. Read more...

Jony Ive and Apple have gone their separate ways

Steve Bennett — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:18:02 +0000

After Jony Ive left Apple in 2019, the former Chief Design Officer was kept on as a part of a consulting deal since then, however, recently the contract has since come up for renewal. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 11 updates, Teams in the store, and One Outlook

Usama Jawad — Sat, 21 May 2022 17:16:02 +0000

This week's digest covers a bunch of interesting news related to a new Dev Channel build for Windows 11, Patch Tuesday shenanigans, the arrival of Teams in the Microsoft Store, and more. Read more...

Several images of an unknown Windows 11 app called "Designer" leak out

Sayan Sen — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:16:02 +0000

Multiple images of a new Windows 11 app called "Designer" have dropped, thanks to a leakster. The images show an attractive new app that is likely a new design tool or an upgrade for an existing app. Read more...

Microsoft adds AI features to PowerPoint like Presenter Coach and branded templates

Rich Woods — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:02:01 +0000

Microsoft today added a number of new AI features to PowerPoint, building on top of its Designer tool. Designer now works with branded templates, and there's also a new Presenter Coach. Read more...

PowerPoint's Designer tool just got better with a new update

Adrian Potoroaca — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced three upgrades that will further expand the capabilities present in PowerPoint Designer and Morph, two automation tools which speed up the slide design process. Read more...

Windows 10 Mobile concept shows that small tweaks could make it great rather than acceptable

Usama Jawad — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:50:01 +0000

While Windows 10 Mobile hasn't started rolling out to existing Windows Phone 8.1 handsets, a designer has illustrated how minor tweaks can significantly improve its usability and appearance. Read more...

Microsoft introduces PowerPoint Designer and Morph to take presentations to the next level

Usama Jawad — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:52:01 +0000

Microsoft has introduced two new features, namely Designer and Morph to PowerPoint which will automatically create animations, crop images in slides and more, based on technology powered by the cloud. Read more...

Apple's five year journey to '3D Touch'

Daniel Hull — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 07:04:01 +0000

A recent tweet from former interaction designer for Apple, Avi Cieplinski, reveals the 3D Touch feature on the latest iPhone devices may have been in development for five years. Read more...

Pixelapse, the Github for designers, has been acquired by Dropbox

Steven Johns — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:04:01 +0000

Pixelapse, the online collaboration platform, has announced it has been acquired by Dropbox. It will continue to offer it's standalone services for the next year while they get ready for the merge. Read more...

Apple's iWatch said to come in 'Sports' and 'Designer' models

Brockman Davis — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:44:53 +0000

The unconfirmed Apple iWatch will offer two different models; a "Sports" variant as well as a "Designer" model. They are reportedly being tested by athletes and celebrities such as Kobe Bryant. Read more...

Google announces new designer frames for Glass

James Walker — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:57:17 +0000

Google Glass is to get a set of new designer frames from iconic American fashion artist Diane von Furstenberg later this month so that users can make their devices more personalized and unique. Read more...

Microsoft Releases Expression Web Designer Preview

Tue, 16 May 2006 12:44:41 +0000

Microsoft has released the first preview version of its much-anticipated Microsoft Expression Web Designer product. On May 15, Microsoft announced the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of its Expression Web Designer, formerly known by... Read more...

GUI now too complex - Longhorn designer

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:26:13 +0000

Don Norman is expert in usability. He's been Apple's top man for usability design, and has also worked with Hewlett Packard. Now he's with Microsoft working on the next version of Windows (Longhorn).... Read more...

An ISA Server case study from designer Paul Smith

Steven Parker — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:36:22 +0000

Following our earlier story on Microsofts commitment to improve security for customers Victoria Barnes has sent me an ISA Server case study from designer Paul Smith. Here is a blurb from the case study, the... Read more...

Chip designer notifies firms of possible patent suits

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:32:06 +0000

Patriot Scientific, a semiconductor designer with about eight employees, sent letters to 150 companies alleging that they might be infringing one of Patriot's patents. The San Diego-based company, which is already involved... Read more...

Welsh Web designer pleads guilty to virus creation

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:48:06 +0000

A 21-old Welsh Web designer has pleaded guilty to creating and distributing three mass mailer viruses, in a hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court this morning. Simon Vallor, of Llandudno, North Wales, admitted offences under... Read more...