Iotacons

Iotacons are clever low-resolution portraits by illustrator Andy Rash. There’s a whole lotta win here.

The Big Lebowski

Pulp Fiction

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring

Design systems should solve problems that designers confront over and over again, so that they can turn to more interesting challenges.

algorithms

Systems Smart Enough To Know When They're Not Smart Enough

Google and others offer wrong answers with matter-of-fact authority. How can designers build stronger signals of trust into data-driven interfaces?

sxsw

Four SXSW Panels for Your Consideration

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

Designing for Touch - English, French, Chinese

books

Designing for Touch—in French! And Chinese!

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

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.

iphone

How iPhone Changed Computing—and Much More

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.

What We’re Reading

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.

The BBQ and the Errant Butler

Marek Pawlowski shares a tale of a dinner party taken hostage by a boorish Alexa hell-bent on selling the guests music.

Toy Story Lessons for the Internet of Things

Dan Gärdenfors ponders how to handle “leadership conflicts” in IoT devices.

Politics Are a Design Constraint

John Warren Hanawalt writes that software design is inherently political. Make sure that your software’s politics line up with your own.

AI First—with UX

AI assistants have trouble understanding user context, Mike Loukides writes, and that’s a tasty UX problem.

Making Software with Casual Intelligence

Evan Prodromou observes that artificial intelligence may have the most impact in jillions of incremental little interventions and improvements, not just moonshot projects.

By Josh Clark