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Josh Clark at Beyond Tellerrand: "A.I. is your new design material." Photo by Stefan Nitzsche.
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A.I. Is Your New Design Material

Discover the opportunities to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction as design material in your everyday work.
Verywell hooray!
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Design To Wake a Sleeping Giant

Big Medium helped About.com (now Dotdash) reinvent its product strategy and design process—and created some mighty good-looking and profitable sites along the way.
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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.
The Technology We Deserve - Link
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The Technology We Deserve

Smart gadgets often abuse their trust or overreach their capabilities. A personal list of favorite fitness devices yields some principles for good product design.
Brad Frost, Josh Clark, and Dan Mall roundtable discussion
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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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The Decade of Design

Figma interviewed a dozen experts, including Big Medium’s Josh Clark, to chronicle the rise of design in the past decade—and what comes next.
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How Dotdash, Formerly About.com, Is Taking over the Internet

This may be the most successful design- and business-turnaround story Big Medium has been involved with. Fast Company tells the tale of Dotdash, the network formerly known as About.com.
You're Not Too Late
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You’re Not Late to Machine Learning

If you’re worried that you’re behind in getting in on machine learning, never fear: AI has not so much come of age as reached an awkward adolescence. You’re right on time.
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What is the Role of an AI Designer?

Facebook’s Amanda Linden shares how AI product designers approach their work in Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence team.
Making friends with the robots
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Why Machine Learning and AI Matter for Design Teams

There’s a critical role for design in the era of the algorithm—and your organization almost certainly has what it needs to jump in today.
Only one deliverable matters
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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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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 iPhone’s original UI designer on Apple’s greatest flaws

In an interview with Imran Chaudhri, the iPhone interface’s original designer says Apple knew the phone would be distracting and attention-soaking—and chose to bury the controls to make it less so.
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Consider the Beer Can

In 1964, John Updike bemoaned the arrival of the modern beer can, offering food for thought to designers who would disrupt familiar experiences.
Dinosaur (maybe on a surfboard?) 4x3
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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.
Woody and Buzz of Toy Story
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Toy Story Lessons for the Internet of Things

Dan Gärdenfors ponders how to handle “leadership conflicts” in IoT devices.
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AI First—with UX

AI assistants have trouble understanding user context, Mike Loukides writes, and that’s a tasty UX problem.
Rosie the Robot
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Making Software with Casual Intelligence

Evan Prodromou observes that artificial intelligence may have the most impact in jillions of incremental little interventions and improvements, not just moonshot projects.
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