Published May 14, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Nolen began their writing career in 2019, with three years dedicated to editing the Creative section at MakeUseOf . Their expertise lies at the crossroads of technology and creativity, covering areas like photography, video editing, and graphic design. Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. Affinity has been one of the most-reached-for tools in my graphics stack since the new unified app dropped . I still think it's one of the boldest moves by a design company yet, to make a proprietary tool almost entirely free, advanced features and all. And it certainly changed the design industry for the better - newbies can easily get their foot in the door without getting stuck in the Adobe subscription trap. On a different note, Claude has been my go-to AI tool lately. I'm pretty stingy when it comes to subscriptions and don't hand them out to just every tool I like, but Claude's won me over.…