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Designing for Touch - English, French, Chinese
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.
Flight attendant in uniform
design

Airlines Redesigning Uniforms Find Out How Complicated It Is

The New York Times considers the commitment, iteration and heavy testing that goes into the design of airline uniforms.
Microsoft Surface Studio PC
process

Surface Deep

Microsoft’s unconventional Surface Studio PC emerged from design process that is equally unconventional (but shouldn’t be).
data

So We Redid Our Charts…

Video analytics provider Mux overhauled their data visualizations and shared the process.
design system

A Working Pattern Library

Ethan Marcotte on tailoring a pattern library to the habits of the people who use it.
Dan Mall UXPin
design system

On Design Systems: Dan Mall of Superfriendly

Dan shares insights about building design systems like true products.
Anca Dragan
ai

The Future of AI Needs To Have More People in It

UC Berkeley’s Anca Dragan says algorithms need to get better at understanding human needs and behaviors.
Robot with pencil
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.
You Keep Using That Word
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.
Josh Clark at Mind the Product 2017
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.
ai

The Future of the UX Designer

Designer Anton Sten ponders the future role of digital designers in a world of more and more Alexas, Siris, and other non-visual interfaces.
design

Plainness and Sweetness

Frank Chimero mulls the beauty of the plain and the normal in design.
algorithms

Algorithm-Driven Design: How AI is Changing Design

Designer Yury Vetrov collected a wide-ranging set of design projects and tools where bots are the designers.
Notification - photo by Ognian Mladenov
usability

Notification System Design (99+)

Quora designer Henry Modisett shares perspectives on the unique challenges of designing effective, respectful notifications.
Lego blocks center
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.
Twitter attack (photo by Alex Ingram)
mobile

No Share Buttons on Mobile Sites (Except This One Weird Case)

Only 2 out of every 1000 mobile web users ever tap a custom share button. Don’t even bother including them in mobile sites except when users are coming from a social network.
An uncertain robot
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?
Technology is not neutral—Cennydd Bowles
IxD17

Let's Make the World We Want To Live In

At Interaction 17, we took a hard look at the role and responsibility of designers for helping to craft a good society.
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