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

Look Up from Your Tools: AI for Product over Production

Today’s focus on AI production efficiencies is only the first stage of a far more exciting arc.

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What Happens When Agents Meet?

Designing agent experiences means thinking beyond individual users—to swarms of agents colliding in shared systems. What could go wrong?

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When Interfaces Design Themselves

Radically adaptive experiences change content, structure, style, or behavior—sometimes all at once—to provide the right experience for the moment.

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sentient design

Wiring Interface to Intent

Create radically adaptive interfaces by telling large language models how to choose the right design pattern for the moment. A primer.

sentient design

Say Hello to Sentient Design

Sentient Design is the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Discover this framework and philosophy for working with AI as a design material.

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We Can Help

“What should we do?” Our new product strategy intensives help you find clarity and action amid AI and other seismic shifts.

What We’re Reading

What does AI do to software?

Benedict Evans considers what intelligent interfaces will look like and concludes there’s “an enormous white space” to invent what’s next.

AI is the Closest Thing to a Genie Lamp

The “magic” might be remarkable, Alberto Romero writes, but it shifts the effort to the wish. And most people (and organizations) aren’t very good at that part.

An Anti-AI Moral Stance?

What do you do if you find the whole AI enterprise so immoral that you find its very use to be ethically unacceptable?

This Is Running

If you’re a runner (or just running-curious), you’ll love this beautiful, thoughtful new book by Raziq Rauf.

When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’

A BCG study of US-based workers found that intensive oversight of AI agents can cause cognitive exhaustion that the researchers call “AI brain fry.”

How Many Products Does Microsoft Have Named ‘Copilot’?

“There are now Copilots inside Copilots, Copilots for other Copilots, and a physical Copilot key on your keyboard for summoning them,” writes Tey Bannerman.

By Josh Clark
Principal, Big Medium

The Big Lebowski

Pulp Fiction

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Look Up from Your Tools: AI for Product over Production

What Happens When Agents Meet?

When Interfaces Design Themselves

Wiring Interface to Intent

Say Hello to Sentient Design

We Can Help

What We’re Reading

What does AI do to software?

AI is the Closest Thing to a Genie Lamp

An Anti-AI Moral Stance?

This Is Running

When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’

How Many Products Does Microsoft Have Named ‘Copilot’?