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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.
process
Only One Deliverable Matters
Too much design effort goes into artifacts that are not part of the working software. There’s a better way to work.
c25k
How Josh Clark Invented “Couch to 5K” and Helped Millions Start Running
Big Medium’s Josh Clark created the exercise schedule that got the world running. The BBC tells the story.
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?
productivity
The Tools I Use
Josh Clark shares his personal toolkit for making things happen, part of An Event Apart’s “The Tools We Use” series.
podcast
Designing with Artificial Intelligence: The Dinosaur on a Surfboard
On the Presentable podcast, Josh Clark joins Jeff Veen to consider the role for designers in a world of algorithms and machine learning.
sxsw
Four SXSW Panels for Your Consideration
Oh have we got SXSW proposals for you. Artificial intelligence! Mindful technology! Design systems! Atomic design!
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.
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.