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print editions. Many of those e-zines were rated among the best examples of this challenging new medium. From the start, InDesign's flexibility in dual-purposing content for both print and digital proved invaluable for large shops and small. As InDesign moves into its third decade, we are already getting an idea of the directions it will be taking. Like many denizens of the Creative Cloud, InDesign is getting smarter, using AI and machine learning to assist with the more mundane and time-consuming tasks. With Content-Aware Fit, InDesign uses its Sensei smarts to scale and crop an image into a differently sized and proportioned frame. The redesigned Layout Adjustment can reapply page designs to accommodate different page sizes and margins, tweaking text frames and other page elements as needed.What may be even more important is that like some of the other members of the Creative Cloud family, Adobe is refocusing on usability. After literally decades of adding features, the company is applying its user-interface expertise to make them manageable, speeding up your workflow if you are an expert and making the program far more approachable if you're not. The best example of this is the new context-aware Properties Panel that intelligently keeps all the controls and options you'll need right at hand. Whatever new medium it may move to in the future, the art of design and publishing is going to be with us for a while. We're pretty sure that Adobe's InDesign will not only keep up, but continue to push the desktop publishing craft in new directions.