Scott Hughes

I finally got through to the store on a different browser, Safari on the Mac OS X 10.8.5 would not work.  I ordered the book.  I am in Canada, and should have the book by today if the DHL delivery folks are correct.  
 
The book cost me a total of $82.00 Canadian with shipping, duty and taxes.  It was shipped from the UK through the United States then on to Canada, hence the ridiculous duty and taxes - it's a book, why the extra charges?  I am hoping it is worth the money.  Thanks in advance Serif.

If you need to do family sharing, here is some info:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201085
 
But, if they are both your computers, you don't need to do that.  Just log into the app store with the same  Apple id you used to do the purchase, and you can install it on the other computer directly from the app store.

Purchased new Hardware
I originally purchased Affinity on my aging MacBook Pro, but recently put a few grand into a new Windows-based system.  Do I have to now re-purchase Affinity Photo and Designer for my Windows machine?
 
Thinking about even more Hardware
I was also thinking about putting it on another laptop that I just want to leave at another location (so I don't have lug around laptops), do I have to purchase a third copy for that?
 
Cost vs Principle
Personally, I think the software Serif has put out is well worth the money and even under-valued.  I wouldn't have minded paying more money when I initially made the purchase.  However, I am a person of principle and will only be using the software on one machine at a time and I don't want to have to repurchase the same thing 3 times.  Of course, I would certainly do it if I were using the computers at the same time, and certainly if I were a business, but I'm a very casual designer.
 

There is an opportunity to design not only next evolution of visual design software, which you guys are clearly doing AMAZINGLY, but also to design the next step in the evolution of software UI. Affinity can be the app that changes the UI game for good. But in order to do so, it must leave behind the iconography that has defined what modern UIs are since the 90s.
  I found a Yosemite version of the AD UI on one of the forums here when I first started hearing about AD, and I dug it up the other day to play around with some ideas I had. I can't remember whom or where I got it from, so my apologies to the artist who posted it for not giving him or her credit...
 
As far as the UI: We've seen a move towards simpler and more iconographic interfaces, and less towards photorealistic, or skeumorphic UIs. I welcome this trend, and think it can continue to its logical conclusion of an ultra simplified, unobtrusive, monochromatic, high detail, user definable UI, almost like the UI of the computers in the control center in Zion in the film The Matrix 3: super clean, retina-sharp, monochromatic overlay over the content.
 
A monochromatic UI is critical for a professional app. But that doesn't mean only gray. I think the proper balance between the unobtrusiveness of a gray background and the color of a monochromatic UI can be achieved, specially with some of the simple effects like glows and inversions to highlight the UI where necessary. 
 
There could be a setting in the Preferences to Activate Monochromatic UI. Another setting allows the user to determine her or his main UI color, glow level, as well as the pre-existing UI gamma controls for the background gray, which I think was a wise decision NOT to make it a user defined color. I would encourage the development team to allow the UI font size and perhaps a few san serif font variants with different widths, to be user selectable as well...
 
If you really wanna blow everyone else away: allow access to an AD file that contains the entire UI in vector format, neatly arranged and organized, which users could then customize and share to our heart's content. We can dream, can't we?!?
 
Anyway, here are a few basic variations of the UI, you get the idea where this could go:
 
Cyan:  
 
Magenta:   
 
Yellow:   
 
 
White: