Iotacons

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

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Pulp Fiction

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sentient Design Is Here

Sentient Design is the practice of creating intelligent interfaces. The new book answers what’s next for design (and designers).

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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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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.

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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

The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop

The New York Times explores the test kitchens of People Inc. to explain the how and why of creating tons of original recipes. (What AI is and isn’t good for.)

Sinceerly: AI to Mess Up Your Writing

Sinceerly is a (tongue-in-cheek?) Gmail plugin to undo AI writing and make emails messy and human.

Jakob Nielsen: ‘Buy the Book Already’

Usability legend Jakob Nielsen offers a thorough review of Sentient Design (and a detailed comic-strip summary, too!)

A Great Design Gathering

Leonardo De La Rocha describes his takeaways from a gathering of the tech industry’s top design leaders—and the special impact of Sentient Design on the day.

Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”

Kirkus Reviews calls Sentient Design “an essential guide for building responsible and revolutionary AI-mediated user experiences.”

Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era

Google DeepMind’s new magic cursor feature provides the awareness and agency to respond to users in context—a tidy distillation of Sentient Design’s continuous copilot pattern.

By Josh Clark
Principal, Big Medium