The Digital Media Layer Cake — Backchannel — Medium Each layer requires those beneath it to reach the consumer, whose ultimate interest is primarily the content itself, but who also cares a great deal about the convenience and experience of… more ›

The End Of Apps As We Know Them The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying. And that changes what we need to design and build. How we experience content via… more ›

Design futures 1: Creating systems not destinations It’s easy to forget but the internet is a comparatively young medium and we are only scratching at the surface of its potential. For all practical purposes the internet as we know it… more ›

Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges. Hardware designers creating… more ›