InDesign 2026: What's New

About this episode

David and Anne-Marie explore the new features and updates in InDesign 2026.

InDesign 2026 is here—and so are David and Anne-Marie! In this episode of The CreativePro Podcast , David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción bring back InDesign Secrets and dig into the newest release of Adobe InDesign (v21). They explore what's fresh, and what's just plain weird. From the new Flex Layout feature to live text editing in the browser, they unpack the good, the bad, and the future potential of InDesign's next chapter. Along the way, they share favorite finds, event updates, and a few classic "InDesign Secrets" throwbacks—complete with the return of the Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week (-eek!). Highlights: Who are David and Anne-Marie? Anne-Marie's LinkedIn Learning courses David's LinkedIn Learning courses InDesign User Group: 20th Anniversary Adobe MAX Obscure Feature of the Week: Emit CSS InDesign 2026: Flex Layout makes its debut (similar to CSS Flex Layout ) David explains how Flex Containers let designers control spacing, alignment, and relationships among multiple objects. InDesign's "InCopy on the Web" (beta) Despite the confusing name, this new feature introduces true browser-based text editing for clients and collaborators. Cloud collaboration Cloud…

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Hosts: David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepción

Topics covered

• InDesign 2026
• Adobe InDesign features
• Flex Layout
• cloud collaboration
• text editing
• InCopy on the Web
• Math Expressions

Keywords

• InDesign 2026
• Flex Layout
• cloud documents
• text editing
• MathML integration
• Adobe MAX
• InCopy on the Web

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LinkedIn Learning

Products: InDesign 2026, Adobe InDesign

Books & works: InDesign Secrets

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