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• User Defenders podcast: There is no big time; there's always something ahead
  In this superhero-themed podcast, Josh Clark talks about UX careers, the post-screen future, and the design values that should go into what’s next.
• How we hold our gadgets
  An excerpt from Josh Clark's new book Designing for Touch. Where do hands and fingers fall on the device? This question is the linchpin for every form factor this book examines, and the answer tells you how to design your layout for comfort and efficiency.
• Big Web Show podcast: every time we touch
  Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Josh Clark about designing for touch; why game designers are our most talented interaction designers; designing for an economy of motion; teaching digital designers to think like industrial designers (and vice-versa); and much more.
• Boagworld podcast: Designing for the gaps
  Paul Boag and Marcus Lillington interview Josh Clark about designing for the gaps between interfaces, where users often get stuck when they try to carry info and action between screens and platforms.
• Inc.: Mastering the mobile magic of a mighty big medium
  By Kelly Hoey. Inc Magazine profiled and interviewed Josh Clark about the elements of great mobile products (and the stuff we’re still getting wrong). “Digital is becoming physical, and physical is becoming digital, and mobile is at the center of it.”
• Living with the algorithm
  By Josh Clark. The algorithm undoubtedly makes our lives easier. But does it also perhaps make them smaller, narrower?
• Magical UX and the Internet of Things
  Josh Clark on why myth and magic provide design templates for the Internet of Things: “We have centuries of experience of myths and legend, of telling ourselves stories that ask what it would be like if part of the physical world was magic. What if this mirror was magic? What if this carpet was magic? These regular, everyday, mundane objects, what if they were lit up with a little bit of smarts and power?”
• dConstruct Podcast: Josh Clark and Jeremy Keith
  Josh and Jeremy talk about technology, magic, Harry Potter, and the Internet of Things, in a preview of Josh's talk at dConstruct 2015.
• Designing for the future: wearables with Josh Clark and Liza Kindred
  Josh and Liza join The Dirt podcast to talk about magic wands, hotspot handbags, and the good and bad about drumpants.
• Connected // Disconnected
  By Josh Clark. Maybe we mobile designers have done our jobs a little too well. And maybe “engagement” was the wrong goal to chase in the first place.
• Wearables and our dysfunctional obsession with screens and engagement
  Wareable.com interviewed Josh Clark about why screens won’t be the future of wearable technology.
• Josh Clark on O’Reilly Radar
  O’Reilly’s Mary Treseler interviewed Josh about seeing the world as an interface, avoiding data rash, and the importance of play and experimentation in design.
• Understanding Apple Watch with Josh Clark
  Josh Clark joined Jen Simmons on the Web Ahead podcast to discuss designing for wearables, Apple Watch UX, and what it means to wear data. Also: they may have also discussed the mechanics of building a teleporter.
• Of Nerve and Imagination
  By Josh Clark. Thoughts about how to value the coming wave of wearables and connected devices. We are bridging the gap between digital and physical, one small step at a time. Nerve demands that we take the long view. (Also: a robot symphony!)
• Designing for the Space Between Devices
  By Josh Clark. As gadgets multiply, the new opportunity is less about designing individual screens, and more about designing interactions between devices.
• Smart Watches, Wearables, and That Nasty Data Rash
  By Josh Clark. There are so many opportunities in the fact that we can now wear data. But the risk is that it will wear us. Design can help us manage the problem.