Big Medium’s Brad Frost invented the Atomic Design methodology for creating, maintaining, and evolving design systems. In this talk, Brad reflects on the past, present, and future of design systems—sharing bumps, bruises, and best practices along the way. He explores the current design system ecosystem, dives into best practices and common pitfalls, and peeks into the exciting future of design systems. (Spoiler: Atomic Design is going stronger than ever.)
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Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX
Josh Clark introduces Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Learn to design radically adaptive experiences that feel almost self-aware in their response to user needs.
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Design of AI: Sentient Design
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred share the importance of design in shaping AI-powered experiences in this podcast conversation about Sentient Design, their new book, moving beyond the chatbot, generational views of technology, and much more.
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Is Atomic Design Dead?
Brad Frost explores today’s design system ecosystem and peeks into the exciting future of design systems. (Spoiler: Atomic Design is going stronger than ever, thank you very much.)
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Online Event: AI and Design Systems
The Big Medium team shares the many ways that we use AI to build and maintain design systems. (You can totally do it, too.)
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When will AI Replace Us?
Kevin Coyle addresses and subdues fears about AI taking out jobs. (Spoiler: This isn’t a new problem.) Instead, he shows how your new robot colleagues can help you do your job even better—right now, today.
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ShopTalk: Brad Frost on a Global Design System
On the TalkShop podcast, Big Medium’s Brad Frost answers questions like: What is a global design system? Are two design systems ever the same? How would this slot inside atomic design? What has been the response from the web community to global design system as an idea? And what’s Frostapalooza?