Design for what’s next
We design, write about, and speak on connected devices, mobile apps, and responsive websites.
We can help you be even more awesome.
Learn how.
Big Projects
about.com
Design To Wake a Sleeping Giant
Big Medium helped About.com reinvent its product strategy and design process—and created some mighty good-looking and profitable sites along the way.
exxonmobil
Scaling Great Design Across a Fortune 10 Company
Big Medium crafted a design system to help one of the world’s biggest companies scale great design across hundreds of apps.
samsung
Natural Gesture Language for Smartwatches
Big Medium worked with Samsung to prototype a natural-gesture language for smartwatches: snap your hand or flick your finger to control your digital life.
propeller health
UX for a Connected Inhaler
Big Medium designed the UX flow, data visualization, and visual interface for the web and mobile apps of Propeller Health’s bluetooth-connected asthma inhaler.
from the lab
Shake Music from your Phone to your PC
Happy Together is a prototype app that lets you transfer data or media by shaking it out of your phone.
Time Inc.
An Online Home for the World's Biggest Publisher
We crafted a new website—and along the way, a new brand—for the world’s most iconic publisher. Here’s how we did it.
design system
The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring
Design systems should solve problems that designers confront over and over again, so that they can turn to more interesting challenges.
algorithms
Systems Smart Enough To Know When They're Not Smart Enough
Google and others offer wrong answers with matter-of-fact authority. How can designers build stronger signals of trust into data-driven interfaces?
books
Designing for Touch—in French! And Chinese!
Josh Clark’s book Designing for Touch is now available in French, Chinese, and the original English.
podcast
The Design System and Your Future Self
On the Style Guide podcast, Josh Clark shares how design systems are a kindness to your future self—and can make sense of emerging interactions, too.
iphone
How iPhone Changed Computing—and Much More
The iPhone’s arrival 10 years ago catalyzed deep changes that are still playing out today. Here’s a rundown of what happened—and what’s ahead.
interview
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: How AI Will Affect UX Design
Adobe profiled and interviewed Big Medium’s Josh Clark about the opportunities and challenges facing UX designers in a world of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
process
MVP: I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
“Minimum viable product” somehow got corrupted to mean ”the crummiest thing we can get away with taking to market.” Use the real MVP to make better products and reduce risk.
security
Set Up Your Own Private VPN with Streisand
This remarkable software project gives you a private VPN service with easy setup at low cost and zero maintenance.
Big Talk
algorithms
Design in the Era of the Algorithm
Machine learning is technology’s new frontier, and designers have a crucial part to play. Josh Clark explores our new roles and responsibilities when we design for the machines.
physical ui
The Physical Interface
With a rich trove of examples, Josh Clark explores the practical, meaningful design opportunities for the web’s newly physical interfaces.
multidevice
Multidevice Mambo: UX Choreography Among Gadgets
Plan and craft UX that goes beyond the individual device and embraces the whole ecosystem of gadgets.
iot
Magical UX and the Internet of Things
Designing for the internet of things means blessing everyday objects, places, even people with extraordinary abilities—requiring designers, too, to break with the ordinary.
smartwatch
Significant Glances: Meaningful Interaction on the Wrist
New interfaces need new interactions, and we’ve never had quite as vexing an interface as the smartwatch.
iot
The Web Gets Real: Designing for the Internet of Things
Multi-screen design is a must-have as we try to cram our content into many different screens. But get ready for the next wave of design: no screen at all.
Big Medium is the design studio of Josh Clark and friends. We design forward-looking experiences for connected devices, mobile apps, and responsive websites. We choose our projects carefully for work that makes a difference—with new technique, giant scale, or social change.
We love an audacious challenge. If you’ve got one, let’s talk.