Ideas and Discoveries

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

As Interaction 17 comes to a close, co-chair Josh Clark says a big thank you to all the many people who made this premier design conference happen.

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.

On the 10th birthday of An Event Apart, I looked back at what I was doing a decade ago—and what’s changed.

Inc. Magazine profiled and interviewed Big Medium’s Josh Clark about the elements of great mobile products (and the stuff we’re still getting wrong).

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.

Memories of a night in Siena remind me what we’ve gained—and what we’ve lost—in the era of the algorithm.

In an interview, Josh Clark previews his keynote for the Delight conference, explaining why magic yields more imaginative interfaces than technological inspiration.