design

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

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

Dan shares insights about building design systems like true products.

“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.

Quora designer Henry Modisett shares perspectives on the unique challenges of designing effective, respectful notifications.

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.

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

An excerpt from Josh Clark’s book Designing for Touch explores how we grip different devices, revealing the ergonomic demands of touchscreen interfaces.

Josh’s latest book hands you the best design patterns and interactions for modern interfaces.

The best technologies disappear into the environment to minimize distraction from the content or experience at hand. Yet we design for distraction, and we call it engagement. When you say “engagement,” I now hear “theft of attention.”

As devices multiply, the new opportunity is less about designing individual screens, and more about designing interactions between the devices.

Smashing Magazine published The Mobile Book this week. I was honored to contribute the book’s final chapter about designing for touch.