Big news! 😅 Our book Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI is now available for pre-order from Rosenfeld Media, Amazon, and all the usual suspects. (15% off during the pre-order period!)
Sentient Design is all about creating AI-powered experiences with the awareness and agency to adapt to your users in the moment. These are intelligent interfaces—things like dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, or agents that just get it done. The book is the first to map the whole territory: the experience patterns, practical methodology, and imaginative perspective for creating experiences that just weren’t possible before.
We think you’ll enjoy it, and we hope you’ll find it useful. Our early readers sure did (I swear we didn't make up these quotes):
“What an epic book.”
—John Maeda, author of How To Speak Machine and Laws of Simplicity
“I f*cking love this book.”
—Katja Forbes, author of Machine Customers
I wrote this book with my colleague and daughter (!!) Veronika Kindred, with a generous foreword by John Maeda. We created Sentient Design because we needed it at Big Medium. We’re sharing it because we think you might need it, too.
Sentient Design helps all of us think bigger than the current vogue of AI for tooling and productivity. What’s possible when you weave intelligence into product, not just production?
Let’s look up from our tools. I wrote a thing about the stages of technology adoption, where most of us (and most teams) are stuck, and the crazy-good things that happen when we favor invention over automation. Oh, and lots of examples of the design work that points the way. In this edition, we also look at how things get weird when agents collide at scale.
Want to learn even more? Come along (bring your team!) to our Sentient Design workshop course online on May 13–14—or live in Berlin at Hatch Conference on September 16.
Exciting times. Let’s wade into them together.
—Josh Clark and the Big Medium team