web design
ai
When will AI Replace Us?
Kevin Coyle addresses and subdues fears about AI taking out jobs. (Spoiler: This isn’t a new problem.) Instead, he shows how your new robot colleagues can help you do your job even better—right now, today.
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Your Sparkles Are Fizzling
Let’s retire the sparkle emoji, purple hues, and rainbow gradients for AI-powered features.
sentient design
Introducing Generative Canvas
Salesforce is piloting a radically adaptive, AI-mediated dashboard for CRM users. Look out, enterprise, here comes Sentient Design.
ai
Can AI Bridge the Dev/Design Gap?
Big Medium’s Kevin Coyle explores how AI can improve collaboration between product management, frontend and backend development, and design. Kevin shows how AI can bring us together instead of replacing or isolating us.
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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 Workshop and the Storefront
Brad Frost’s metaphor for pattern libraries and style guides help delineate where design-system work should happen.
design system
“The Style Guide Guide”
Brad Frost released an open-source starter kit for creating a design system’s style guide.
sentient design
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.
design system
Managing Technology-Agnostic Design Systems
Brad Frost tackles the challenge of building a design system that works across different tech frameworks.
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Web Performance Optimization Stats
WPO Stats collects stats that demonstrate the business value of faster websites.
google
The Most Successful Interface Design of All Time
Erika Hall: in 20 years, the fundamental design of Google’s entry page is virtually unchanged.
design system
The Full Stack Design System
Intercom’s Emmet Connolly shares terrific thoughts about building holistic design systems but glosses over some key aspects of Atomic Design process.
advertising
The Web Looks Like Sh*t
The Outline bemoans the abusive state of web design—and offers some of Big Medium’s work as a possible antidote.
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Style Guide Audience
Brad Frost underscores the value in helping design systems embrace the whole organization.
design system
Atomic Design
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.
PEOPLE
Time Inc.'s first responsive site
We designed the responsive mobile website for People Magazine. Here’s how we did it and why.