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AI shifts from tool to design material. Product design moves from consolidation to innovation. Generative AI loses its sparkle. Sentient Design comes to the fore. Josh Clark unpacks the signals reshaping design, strategy, and creativity in 2025.

Brad Frost, Ian Frost, and Jessi Hall are moving on to exciting new chapters. We’re so grateful and proud of everything we’ve done together.

Josh Clark shares nine principles to guide high-performing teams to deliver faster/better/cheaper in an era of shrinking budgets.

Smart gadgets often abuse their trust or overreach their capabilities. A personal list of favorite fitness devices yields some principles for good product design.

Josh Clark joins Phil Burgess on the IT Career Energizer podcast to talk about crafting a healthy and fulfilling career in the industry.

If you’re worried that you’re behind in getting in on machine learning, never fear: AI has not so much come of age as reached an awkward adolescence. You’re right on time.

There’s a critical role for design in the era of the algorithm—and your organization almost certainly has what it needs to jump in today.

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.

Josh Clark shares his personal toolkit for making things happen, part of An Event Apart’s “The Tools We Use” series.

On the Presentable podcast, Josh Clark joins Jeff Veen to consider the role for designers in a world of algorithms and machine learning.

Oh have we got SXSW proposals for you. Artificial intelligence! Mindful technology! Design systems! Atomic design!

Josh Clark’s book Designing for Touch is now available in French, Chinese, and the original English.

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 iPhone’s arrival 10 years ago catalyzed deep changes that are still playing out today. Here’s a rundown of what happened—and what’s ahead.

“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.

This remarkable software project gives you a private VPN service with easy setup at low cost and zero maintenance.