Make sure to submit your MS Paint designed application.

Actually, in lieu of my Creative Cloud account expiring I've decided to adopt using Affinity Designer now. The outside-canvas area works when using artboards (which can thankfully have multiple artboards per document now), but has exactly the same issue as Sketch whereby it puts it inside/outside an "Artboard" layer, effectively changing it's hierarchy each time.

I like it, but one particular thing that annoys me about Sketch too is not being able to place objects outside the canvas. Also having multiple canvases (pages) per doc would be great too.

Being able to switch between vector and bitmap to add textures and stuff to shapes is really really cool. Great new way to add a new level of depth to vector art.

I'd suggest ones with a large x-height and very open counters, if you mean to display lots of dense text at a small size with maximum readability. Something like Tahoma or Verdana come to mind.

As a designer and New Zealander, this makes me sad :(

A bazillion. My problem is that I swap from design to code a lot, so my coding knowledge always takes a hit when I come back to it and there's more new frameworks and API services to learn arrggghhh. I've resigned to just making visual mock ups and dummy prototypes than any fully working products.

A lot of mine inhabit more art territory than business, although they look like a viable app to start a business. I'm more interested in playing with app entrepreneur as artistic medium for social commentary than I am for building money making apps. Any backend infrastructure programmers wanna team up??

It depends on the content really! Like publication design — or any information design — using positive/negative space effectively relies on a certain rhythm.

I don't necessarily use vertical grids per se, but I'd use a size unit scheme based on a dimension, such as a font height or just even a rudimentary length (I often use 8px or 16px). For example, a section of text may have 0.5ems, 3ems, or 5ems worth of space underneath (using CSS preprocessors like SASS and LESS make this really easy to integrate throughout). The spacing should illustrate connection or difference between elements (closer is more relation/connection, further is difference, change, etc.) and still be in proportion to the whole layout.

I worked in publication design for a few years and swapped between using vertical baseline grids and not, and they can look good depending on the purpose, content and application, and other times they can just be more trouble than their worth.

It is really the bees knees

KILL IT WITH FIRE

8 months later, Rdio's now bankrupt and I'm trialling Tidal to replace the soon-to-be Rdio-sized hole in my life. Sucks it doesn't have the same social features (friends and stalking what they listen to, album commenting), other features I used a lot of (remote control, show similar albums), but still has a nice enough layout (Rdio IS better IMO).

Beats using Spotify!