process
dotdash
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.
exxonmobil
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.
video
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.
ai
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.
process
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.
design system
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.
productivity
The Tools I Use
Josh Clark shares his personal toolkit for making things happen, part of An Event Apart’s “The Tools We Use” series.
ai
The Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye
Noam Scheiber reports on algorithms that seek to build an entire organization for you with a click.
podcast
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.
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.
voice
Uncovering Voice UI Design Patterns
Design consultancy Cooper is sharing their emerging best practices for voice interfaces.
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.
design system
On Design Systems: Dan Mall of Superfriendly
Dan shares insights about building design systems like true products.
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.
process
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.
bots
Facebook’s Perfect, Impossible Chatbot
Facebook is prototyping its omniscient bot by powering it with people, the MIT Technology Review reports.