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

Design Systems: Mastering Design at Scale

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.

process

Only One Deliverable Matters

Too much design effort goes into artifacts that are not part of the working software. There’s a better way to work.

c25k

How Josh Clark Invented “Couch to 5K” and Helped Millions Start Running

Big Medium’s Josh Clark created the exercise schedule that got the world running. The BBC tells the story.

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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?

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The Tools I Use

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

What We’re Reading

The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far.

Mat Honan’s review of the Google Pixel 3 smartphone is a funny, harrowing, real-talk look at the devices that have come to govern our lives.

Getting the iPad to Pro

Craig Mod considers the new iPad Pro and finds that its sleek and speedy hardware highlights the software’s flaws.

Design Tools Are Running Out of Track

Our design tools are fundamentally disconnected from the realities and constraints of working software—which means that designers are, too.

Apple Used to Know Exactly What People Wanted — Then It Made a Watch

In The New York Times, John Herrmann observes that it’s not yet clear how Apple Watch’s health-tracking delivers value—or for whom.

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information

At Gizmodo, Kashmir Hill describes how your friends inadvertently give up your data to companies even when you don’t participate in their service.

Google Data Collection Research

A study of Android phones found that Google collects location information 340 times during a 24-hour period from a dormant stationary phone. It goes way up with actual interaction.

By Josh Clark