Ideas and Discoveries

“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.

The best technologies disappear into the environment to minimize distraction from the content or experience at hand. Yet we design for distraction, and we call it engagement. When you say “engagement,” I now hear “theft of attention.”

Wareable.com profiled and interviewed Big Medium’s Josh Clark about the risks and opportunities of moving interactions off screen and into the world around us.

As devices multiply, the new opportunity is less about designing individual screens, and more about designing interactions between the devices.

The real luxury of wearing information is not in exposing ourselves to every passing data point but in filtering that data in ways that deliver insight and amplify our humanity.

Smashing Magazine published The Mobile Book this week. I was honored to contribute the book’s final chapter about designing for touch.