What We’re Reading

Tim Berners-Lee on Everything Wrong with the Web Today

By Josh Clark
Principal, Big Medium

Published Apr 5, 2017

Quartz sums up several interviews that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is giving this week. The web’s daddy is a little disappointed in how things are turning out. Berners-Lee specifically calls out three ways that the web isn’t living up to its ideals:

Advertising’s pernicious effect on the news
Social networks ignoring their responsibility to the truth
Online privacy is a “human right” that’s being trampled

Quartz | Everything wrong with the web today, according to its inventor

AI and Design Systems

The new crop of AI tools are already supercharging design system efforts across many categories, and we’re helping our clients use AI to do exactly that. Big Medium’s Brad Frost, Kevin Coyle, and Ian Frost show how.

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The Art of Design System Recipes

Recipes take a design system’s components and make delicious, product-specific compositions out of them. Brad Frost breaks down the art of wielding recipes for digital UI success.

Illustration of a leader robot thinking about money alongside its robot team

leadership

Do More with Less: Digital Leadership in Lean Times

Josh Clark shares nine principles to guide high-performing teams to deliver faster/better/cheaper in an era of shrinking budgets.

design system

What's Next for a Global Design System

Since proposing a Global Design System, Big Medium’s Brad Frost has received a flood of responses—from positive to skeptical to scathing. Here’s a rundown and what’s next.

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A Global Design System

Big Medium’s Brad Frost issues a call to action to create a Global Design System of common UI components. What would this look like, and what would it mean for you?

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Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower

Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.

What We’re Reading

We Need To Talk About Our AI Fetish

In a powerful and historically grounded essay, Jeremy Wagstaff asks that we not abdicate the vision for AI solely to the companies who stand to gain from it.

Nobody Wants To Work with Our Best Engineer

Jacob Bennett on kindness as competitive advantage.

John Maeda: Josh Clark's 2019 talk on Design and AI

Design legend John Maeda discovers some old gold from Big Medium’s Josh Clark.

US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight

This is fine.

Looking for AI Use Cases

What do we do with this thing? Benedict Evans writes that our imaginations haven’t quite caught up with truly useful applications for LLMs.

AI + Design: Figma Users Tell Us What’s Coming Next

A survey of Figma users indicates that AI is making its way into most companies’ product pipelines, but the solutions they’re shipping are… uninspired.

Tim Berners-Lee on Everything Wrong with the Web Today

By Josh Clark
Principal, Big Medium

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AI and Design Systems

The Art of Design System Recipes

Do More with Less: Digital Leadership in Lean Times

What's Next for a Global Design System

A Global Design System

Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower

What We’re Reading

We Need To Talk About Our AI Fetish

Nobody Wants To Work with Our Best Engineer

John Maeda: Josh Clark's 2019 talk on Design and AI

US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight

Looking for AI Use Cases

AI + Design: Figma Users Tell Us What’s Coming Next