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2026 32

  1. The Right to Resist Optimization
  2. What we’re reading
  3. Designing Systems That Decide
  4. Boagworld: Designing Beyond the Chatbot
  5. Publishers Consider Cutting Off Google
  6. The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop
  7. Sinceerly: AI to Mess Up Your Writing
  8. Jakob Nielsen: ‘Buy the Book Already’
  9. Power of Ten: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
  10. Sentient Design Is Here
  11. Productive Magic on the Rosenfeld Review
  12. Design Better AMA: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
  13. A Great Design Gathering
  14. Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”
  15. Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era
  16. Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI
  17. Lean Stories: AI as Design Material
  18. AI is the Closest Thing to a Genie Lamp | Big Medium
  19. An Anti-AI Moral Stance? | Big Medium
  20. What does AI do to software? | Big Medium
  21. Commit & Push: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred | Big Medium
  22. This Is Running | Big Medium
  23. Look Up from Your Tools: AI for Product over Production
  24. When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’ | Big Medium
  25. How Many Products Does Microsoft Have Named ‘Copilot’? | Big Medium
  26. Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces | Big Medium
  27. Sentient Design Workshop Courses | Big Medium
  28. “I Suppose You Would Call It an Interface for the User” | Big Medium
  29. Why AI agents need to learn to read the room | Big Medium
  30. SaaS Is Dead? | Big Medium
  31. The Shape of the Thing | Big Medium
  32. What Happens When Agents Meet?

2025 26

  1. Charlie's Fake Videos for AI Literacy | Big Medium
  2. We Can Help | Big Medium
  3. Wiring Interface to Intent
  4. The Cascade Effect in Context-Based Design Systems | Big Medium
  5. When Interfaces Design Themselves
  6. UX Fika: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred | Big Medium
  7. Boring Is Good | Big Medium
  8. The 28 AI Tools I Wish Existed | Big Medium
  9. How Developers Are Using Apple's Local AI Models with iOS 26 | Big Medium
  10. AI Will Happily Design the Wrong Thing for You | Big Medium
  11. Design Better: Sentient Design | Big Medium
  12. LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation | Big Medium
  13. Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents? | Big Medium
  14. AI Has Upended the Search Game | Big Medium
  15. Values in the Wild | Big Medium
  16. Sentient Design @ SXSW
  17. How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use | Big Medium
  18. Welcome To the Era of MEH | Big Medium
  19. Redesigning Design, the Cliff in Front of Us All | Big Medium
  20. Design Artifacts | Big Medium
  21. Big News
  22. Video Series: Foundations of Sentient Design | Big Medium
  23. 2025: The Year Ahead | Big Medium
  24. New Adventures for Old Friends | Big Medium
  25. TikTok Will Never Die | Big Medium
  26. MS Copilot Flying Straight Into the Mountain | Big Medium

2024 40

  1. When Combinations of Humans and A.I. are Useful | Big Medium
  2. Design of AI: Sentient Design | Big Medium
  3. This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat | Big Medium
  4. Beware of Botshit | Big Medium
  5. A Radically Adaptive World Model | Big Medium
  6. Exploring the AI Solution Space | Big Medium
  7. Introducing Generative Canvas | Big Medium
  8. Your Sparkles Are Fizzling | Big Medium
  9. Data Whisperers, Pinocchios, and Sentient Design | Big Medium
  10. Private Sentient Design Workshops | Big Medium
  11. Change Blindness | Big Medium
  12. Introducing Structured Outputs in the API | Big Medium
  13. Why I Finally Quit Spotify | Big Medium
  14. Has the “AI Edge” Become a Dull Blade? | Big Medium
  15. The Shape of Sentient Design | Big Medium
  16. AI Is Confusing — Here’s Your Cheat Sheet | Big Medium
  17. Turning the Tables on AI | Big Medium
  18. Doctors Use A.I. Chatbots to Help Fight Insurance Denials | Big Medium
  19. Still Trying to Sound Smart About AI? The Boss Is, Too | Big Medium
  20. A Protopian Frontier | Big Medium
  21. WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence | Big Medium
  22. A Unified Theory of F*cks | Big Medium
  23. Illuminate | Big Medium
  24. I Will F***ing Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again | Big Medium
  25. Online Event: AI and Design Systems | Big Medium
  26. Say Hello to Sentient Design | Big Medium
  27. A.I., Snake Oil, and Miracle-Cure Expectations | Big Medium
  28. Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX | Big Medium
  29. We Need To Talk About Our AI Fetish | Big Medium
  30. Nobody Wants To Work with Our Best Engineer | Big Medium
  31. John Maeda: Josh Clark's 2019 talk on Design and AI | Big Medium
  32. US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight | Big Medium
  33. Looking for AI Use Cases | Big Medium
  34. AI + Design: Figma Users Tell Us What’s Coming Next | Big Medium
  35. This is the Moment to Reinvent Your Product | Big Medium
  36. The 3 Capabilities Designers Need To Build for the AI Era | Big Medium
  37. When will AI Replace Us? | Big Medium
  38. A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | Big Medium
  39. Do More with Less: Digital Leadership in Lean Times | Big Medium
  40. Scaling Digital Strategy in Complex Organizations | Big Medium

2023 2

  1. Can AI Bridge the Dev/Design Gap? | Big Medium
  2. Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower | Big Medium

2020 10

  1. The Technology We Deserve | Big Medium
  2. A.I. Is Your New Design Material | Big Medium
  3. How Machines Are Taking Over the World’s Stock Markets | Big Medium
  4. Slack and the Decline of Bots | Big Medium
  5. “Pair Curiosity with Generosity” | Big Medium
  6. The Damaging Fiction of the Wellness Industrial Complex™ | Big Medium
  7. The Decade of Design | Big Medium
  8. Simple Plan Gets Millions Running | Big Medium
  9. How Dotdash, Formerly About.com, Is Taking over the Internet | Big Medium
  10. You’re Not Late to Machine Learning | Big Medium

2019 6

  1. AI Dungeon | Big Medium
  2. What is the Role of an AI Designer? | Big Medium
  3. With Brits Used to Surveillance, More Companies Try Tracking Faces | Big Medium
  4. Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle | Big Medium
  5. Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor | Big Medium
  6. Why Machine Learning and AI Matter for Design Teams | Big Medium

2018 19

  1. The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far. | Big Medium
  2. Getting the iPad to Pro | Big Medium
  3. Design Systems: Mastering Design at Scale | Big Medium
  4. Only One Deliverable Matters | Big Medium
  5. Design Tools Are Running Out of Track | Big Medium
  6. Apple Used to Know Exactly What People Wanted — Then It Made a Watch | Big Medium
  7. Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information | Big Medium
  8. Google Data Collection Research | Big Medium
  9. How Josh Clark Invented “Couch to 5K” and Helped Millions Start Running | Big Medium
  10. If Software Is Eating the World, What Will Come Out the Other End? | Big Medium
  11. How to have a healthy relationship with tech | Big Medium
  12. Consider the Beer Can | Big Medium
  13. The iPhone’s original UI designer on Apple’s greatest flaws | Big Medium
  14. “Trigger for a rant” | Big Medium
  15. Should computers serve humans, or should humans serve computers? | Big Medium
  16. s5e11: Things That Have Caught My Attention | Big Medium
  17. AI Is Harder Than You Think | Big Medium
  18. Google Duplicitous | Big Medium
  19. Do You Have “Advantage Blindness”? | Big Medium

2017 24

  1. The Juvet Agenda | Big Medium
  2. Stop Pretending You Really Know What AI Is | Big Medium
  3. Designing with Artificial Intelligence: The Dinosaur on a Surfboard | Big Medium
  4. Four SXSW Panels for Your Consideration | Big Medium
  5. AI First—with UX | Big Medium
  6. In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different | Big Medium
  7. The Design System and Your Future Self | Big Medium
  8. Oil City High School 2017 Commencement Speech | Big Medium
  9. The Future of AI Needs To Have More People in It | Big Medium
  10. The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: How AI Will Affect UX Design | Big Medium
  11. The Surprising Repercussions of Making AI Assistants Sound Human | Big Medium
  12. Design in the Era of the Algorithm | Big Medium
  13. The Workshop and the Storefront | Big Medium
  14. “The Style Guide Guide” | Big Medium
  15. About.com CEO Neil Vogel at Business Insider | Big Medium
  16. Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand | Big Medium
  17. Algorithm-Driven Design: How AI is Changing Design | Big Medium
  18. Managing Technology-Agnostic Design Systems | Big Medium
  19. The Web Looks Like Sh*t | Big Medium
  20. The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring | Big Medium
  21. Style Guide Audience | Big Medium
  22. Can Amazon's Alexa Be Your Friend? | Big Medium
  23. Systems Smart Enough To Know When They're Not Smart Enough | Big Medium
  24. Let's Make the World We Want To Live In | Big Medium

2016 1

  1. Atomic Design | Big Medium

2015 2

  1. Connected // Disconnected | Big Medium
  2. Of Nerve and Imagination | Big Medium

2011 3

  1. Gestures in #NewNewTwitter | Big Medium
  2. Future Friendly at Mobilewood | Big Medium
  3. Video of My Mobile Design Course Available | Big Medium

Undated 226

  1. AI guesses whether youre gay or straight
  2. The tools i use
  3. Preview magical ux delight conference
  4. The pop up employer
  5. User story the bbq and the errant butler
  6. Toy story lessons for the internet of things
  7. Politics are a design constraint
  8. Making software with casual intelligence
  9. Designing for touch chinese french
  10. How iphone changed computing
  11. Google teaches an ai to draw
  12. The physical interface
  13. Magical ux and the internet of things
  14. Surface deep
  15. No investors are going to be looking for ai startups
  16. Airlines redesigning uniforms
  17. Uncovering voice ui design patterns
  18. The mobile book
  19. So we redid our charts
  20. Google will no longer scan gmail for ad targeting
  21. A working pattern library
  22. Dan mall on design systems
  23. Melinda gates and fei fei li
  24. Social cooling
  25. How germanys otto uses artificial intelligence
  26. Mvp does not mean what you think it means
  27. The machine learning paradox
  28. The city was connected
  29. Algorithms arent racist your skin is just too dark
  30. Future of the ux designer
  31. This artist creates awesome drawings with inspirat
  32. No need for alarm about neural nets
  33. Facebooks perfect impossible chatbot
  34. Not ok google
  35. Information environments that dont suck
  36. Freelancetv dan mall interview
  37. The humans hiding behind the chatbots
  38. Climbing out of facebooks reality hole
  39. Instant recall
  40. Plainness and sweetness frank chimero
  41. The crisis of attention theft
  42. The dark secret at the heart of ai
  43. The more you use facebook the worse you feel
  44. Wpo stats
  45. Google effort to flag upsetting offensive content
  46. Most successful interface design of all time
  47. The full stack design system
  48. Federated learning
  49. Sleep is the new status symbol
  50. Youtube to discontinue video annotations
  51. Self driving tractors
  52. Lightform
  53. Notification system design
  54. Losing ones self in selfie moments
  55. Alan kay what made xerox parc special
  56. Fact check in google search and news
  57. Nowhere to hide on the internet
  58. Private vpn streisand
  59. Everything wrong with the web today
  60. Mobile web back to the future
  61. Design systems pilots scorecards
  62. The future agency
  63. Companies start implanting microchips into workers
  64. Eero led light
  65. Not their pop idol but a bot
  66. Designing for touch book
  67. History of patterns in user experience design
  68. Amp breaking news andrew betts
  69. Dishwasher security patch
  70. The web gets real
  71. Mobile doubles desktop traffic
  72. Dysfunctional obsession with screens engagement
  73. No mobile share buttons
  74. Inc big medium profile
  75. Living with the algorithm
  76. Leaping gap between devices
  77. How we hold our gadgets
  78. Difference a decade makes
  79. Smart watches wearables data rash
  80. Nuit blanche forney
  81. Sxsw 2008 work as play
  82. C25k
  83. Tapworthy webcast video slides
  84. Readability strip ads pay publisher
  85. I luv ux design video
  86. Digital life video
  87. Iconathon
  88. Ipad ios5 gestures
  89. Cue icons teaching touch
  90. Siri meets eliza
  91. Newsstand issues
  92. Newsstand revisited
  93. Augmented unreality
  94. Ipad making stuff
  95. A day made of glass
  96. Marathon creative projects
  97. Lost weekends
  98. Go into space
  99. Google elephants
  100. Progress bars
  101. People behind ixd17
  102. Multidevice mambo
  103. Significant glances apple watch
  104. Beyond mobile
  105. Radial menus for touch ui
  106. Desktop touch design
  107. Ios button placement
  108. Nyc grid design
  109. Mobile not lite jakob nielsen
  110. Designing for context mobile mindsets
  111. Buttons inspired ui hack
  112. New ipad image sizes
  113. Desknots
  114. Qr codes footnotes not ads
  115. Eves portable wireless phone
  116. Tapworthy chinese japanese spanish
  117. Mobile context intent
  118. Unwitting tribute steve jobs
  119. Vote sxsw 2012
  120. Mobile commerce belly flop
  121. Half the world has mobile phones
  122. Buttons are a hack
  123. Fowd tea towel
  124. Tablet not a big phone
  125. Asymco wwdc google io
  126. Fugly android
  127. Mobile web responsive design
  128. Mobile web vs native
  129. Sxsw 2011 postmortem
  130. Evolution of touchscreen discoverability
  131. Helvetica new york city subway
  132. Interrobang
  133. Iotacons 2
  134. Russian nuclear plant
  135. Elements app store pricing
  136. Handset sales infographic
  137. Mobile design patterns
  138. Sxsw 2011
  139. Mobile context stats
  140. Underworld paris nyc
  141. Smartphone marketshare 2010 q4
  142. Keynotopia keynote prototyping
  143. Sxsw agreement
  144. Ipad 3g wireless
  145. Google design intelligence
  146. Touchscreen misdirection
  147. Viva new yorker
  148. Freedom security android
  149. Idea10 anthropology mobile cultures
  150. D4m ipad design headaches
  151. Tapworthy webcast redux
  152. Sxsw vote tapworthy ipad design
  153. Twitter uncertainty principle
  154. Iphone tap target 44
  155. Iphone shelf life
  156. Welcome mat nyc subway compass
  157. Designing for iphone4 retina display
  158. Dieter rams fresh prince
  159. Bob walsh tapworthy
  160. Iphone visual identity
  161. Tapworthy launch
  162. Sxsw three
  163. John maeda digital artisans
  164. Ipad vs iphone ui design
  165. Sxsw tapworthy audio podcast
  166. Sxsw tapworthy iphone design
  167. Sxsw2010 recap
  168. Sxsw iphone workshop
  169. Best iphone apps picks advice
  170. Sxsw talks iphone fitness
  171. Best iphone apps reviews
  172. Best iphone apps design
  173. New iphone book
  174. Paris marathon makers
  175. Grand medium
  176. David byrne inspiration
  177. Iwork book
  178. Jean louis david logo
  179. Villegle original mashup
  180. Paris bikes pricing
  181. Velib bonus
  182. Fowa light in dark times
  183. Fowa 2008
  184. Business hours heat map
  185. Paris plages
  186. Amazon bookmarklets
  187. Podcast couch to 5k
  188. Controlled
  189. Paris metro renovation
  190. Coffee cups
  191. Sxsw messin with texas
  192. Coffee subtlety design
  193. Paris park bench design
  194. Design path of least resistance
  195. Louvre behavior
  196. Hackday wikipedia machine tags
  197. Sxsw 2008
  198. Hackdaylondon tags
  199. Design simplicity
  200. Understanding piano
  201. Magic boxes
  202. Thanksgiving in paris
  203. Third age suit
  204. Story driven design
  205. Books gifts for designers creatives
  206. Nature design inspiration
  207. Artist in his studio
  208. The blandness of crowds digg reddit delicious
  209. Chainsaws minibikes
  210. Design inspired by natural history
  211. Web 20 liberation
  212. Optimization
  213. Currency usability
  214. Plain text markdown
  215. Vu magazine
  216. Youtube battle
  217. Tanned rested ready
  218. Hack day
  219. Night at museum
  220. Acropolis
  221. Flattery and kind words
  222. Water rising
  223. Firebug
  224. Thirty six
  225. Magic gathering worlds
  226. Nikeipod and addictive statistics