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Online Event: AI and Design Systems
The Big Medium team shares the many ways that we use AI to build and maintain design systems. (You can totally do it, too.)
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When will AI Replace Us?
Kevin Coyle addresses and subdues fears about AI taking out jobs. (Spoiler: This isn’t a new problem.) Instead, he shows how your new robot colleagues can help you do your job even better—right now, today.
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Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower
Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.
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Scaling Digital Strategy in Complex Organizations
On The Design Systems Podcast, Big Medium’s Josh Clark shares why complex organizations struggle to scale digital design and delivery—and why solving that is more important than ever in a period of economic uncertainty.
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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.
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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.
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Design Artifacts
Robin Rendle challenges designers to step back from rote process and “factory-like production” that wastes time and blocks good work.
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2025: The Year Ahead
AI shifts from tool to design material. Product design moves from consolidation to innovation. Generative AI loses its sparkle. Sentient Design comes to the fore. Josh Clark unpacks the signals reshaping design, strategy, and creativity in 2025.
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Do More with Less: Digital Leadership in Lean Times
Josh Clark shares nine principles to guide high-performing teams to deliver faster/better/cheaper in an era of shrinking budgets.
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Design Systems: Mastering Design at Scale
In this InVision video series, Brad Frost, Dan Mall, and Josh Clark share their know-how to help you build and use a design system.
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Design Tools Are Running Out of Track
Our design tools are fundamentally disconnected from the realities and constraints of working software—which means that designers are, too.
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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.
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Uncovering Voice UI Design Patterns
Design consultancy Cooper is sharing their emerging best practices for voice interfaces.
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A Working Pattern Library
Ethan Marcotte on tailoring a pattern library to the habits of the people who use it.
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On Design Systems: Dan Mall of Superfriendly
Dan shares insights about building design systems like true products.
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The Workshop and the Storefront
Brad Frost’s metaphor for pattern libraries and style guides help delineate where design-system work should happen.
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“The Style Guide Guide”
Brad Frost released an open-source starter kit for creating a design system’s style guide.
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How to Design New Information Environments That Don’t Suck
The worst thing you can do is try to design for every assumed outcome and edge case. Start sturdy and simple.