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“What an epic book”—John Maeda

Create experiences that crackle with awareness and agency, adapting to your users in the moment. Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI gives you the framework and creative perspective to deliver AI-powered experiences that go way beyond text-based agents and chat. By Big Medium's Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred.

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What readers are saying

“I f*cking love this book. A smart, generous exploration of how we'll engage with AI as humans and as designers.”

—Katja Forbes, author of Machine Customers

“AI is more than chat. Amen. A must-read.”

—Adam McClean, Chief Product Officer, People Inc.

“Sentient Design offers clear vocabulary and concrete examples to help designers better imagine what’s possible with machine intelligence as design material.”

—Randy Hunt, Head of Design, Notion

”Sentient Design is the ultimate guidebook to a world where the best interface is a thinking one.”

—Golden Krishna, author of The Best Interface Is No Interface

Big Ideas

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Look Up from Your Tools: AI for Product over Production

Today’s focus on AI production efficiencies is only the first stage of a far more exciting arc.
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What Happens When Agents Meet?

Designing agent experiences means thinking beyond individual users—to swarms of agents colliding in shared systems. What could go wrong?
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When Interfaces Design Themselves

Radically adaptive experiences change content, structure, style, or behavior—sometimes all at once—to provide the right experience for the moment.
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Wiring Interface to Intent

Create radically adaptive interfaces by telling large language models how to choose the right design pattern for the moment. A primer.
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Say Hello to Sentient Design

Sentient Design is the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Discover this framework and philosophy for working with AI as a design material.

What we’re reading

A Great Design Gathering

Leonardo De La Rocha describes his takeaways from a gathering of the tech industry’s top design leaders—and the special impact of Sentient Design on the day.

Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”

Kirkus Reviews calls Sentient Design “an essential guide for building responsible and revolutionary AI-mediated user experiences.”

Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era

Google DeepMind’s new magic cursor feature provides the awareness and agency to respond to users in context—a tidy distillation of Sentient Design’s continuous copilot pattern.

What does AI do to software?

Benedict Evans considers what intelligent interfaces will look like and concludes there’s “an enormous white space” to invent what’s next.

AI is the Closest Thing to a Genie Lamp

The “magic” might be remarkable, Alberto Romero writes, but it shifts the effort to the wish. And most people (and organizations) aren’t very good at that part.

An Anti-AI Moral Stance?

What do you do if you find the whole AI enterprise so immoral that you find its very use to be ethically unacceptable?
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Big Talk

Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred: AMA on crafting intelligent interfaces with AI
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Design Better AMA: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred

Josh and Veronika dish real talk about AI fatigue and speed at the cost of quality. But they share the good news, too: the huge opportunity to create newly possible experiences with Sentient Design.
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Lean Stories: AI as Design Material

Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred join Jonathan Bertfield to explore how the Lean methodology supports Sentient Design and other innovation work, digging into the messy realities of innovation in complex organizations.
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Sentient Design @ SXSW

Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred explore Sentient Design—and the AI opportunities for designers to create new, radically adaptive experiences.
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UX Fika: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred

Don’t settle for an interview that “only” talks about the future of design when you can also get life advice about the Beastie Boys, embarrassing childhood stories, practical magic, and what it’s like for this father-daughter duo to work together.
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Commit & Push: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred

This podcast conversation with Damien Filiatrault gets concrete about how Sentient Design actually works: the patterns, the architecture, and the design decisions behind intelligent interfaces.
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Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX

Josh Clark introduces Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Learn to design radically adaptive experiences that feel almost self-aware in their response to user needs.
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About Us

Big Medium is a design agency specializing in design for what’s next. We help the world’s biggest companies level up their digital operations by creating exceptional online experiences, building design systems, and guiding the creative embrace of emerging technologies. Our team is led by UX trailblazer Josh Clark.

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