process

Big Medium helped About.com reinvent its product strategy and design process—and created some mighty good-looking and profitable sites along the way.

Big Medium crafted a design system to help one of the world’s biggest companies scale great design across hundreds of apps.

Design systems should solve problems that designers confront over and over again, so that they can turn to more interesting challenges.

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.

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

Design consultancy Cooper is sharing their emerging best practices for voice interfaces.

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.

Facebook is prototyping its omniscient bot by powering it with people, the MIT Technology Review reports.

Intercom’s Emmet Connolly shares terrific thoughts about building holistic design systems but glosses over some key aspects of Atomic Design process.

The mobile audience is now twice as big as desktop. Does your organization’s design process reflect that mobile is now your primary platform?

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.

Brad Frost just published his marvelous book Atomic Design, and it was my honor to pen the foreword with our friend and collaborator Dan Mall.