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Josh Clark

bigmedium.com
@globalmoxie
About

Josh Clark is the founder of Big Medium, a design agency specializing in connected devices, mobile experiences, and responsive web design. His clients include Samsung, Alibaba, eBay, AOL, Entertainment Weekly, Time Inc, JCrew, O’Reilly Media, and many others. Josh wrote “Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps” (O'Reilly, 2010) and the forthcoming “Designing for Touch” (A Book Apart, 2015). He speaks around the world about what’s next for digital interfaces.

Before the internet swallowed him up, Josh was a producer of national PBS programs at Boston’s WGBH. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, strolled the ranch with Nancy Reagan, hobnobbed with Rockefellers, and wrote trivia questions for a primetime game show. In 1996, he created the uberpopular “Couch-to-5K” (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical would-be exercisers take up jogging. (His motto is the same for fitness as it is for software user experience: no pain, no pain.)

Listen to the podcast episode with Josh Clark.

Magical UX and the Internet of Things

Designers of the future! Set aside your sonic screwdrivers, put down those jetpacks, and step away from the holodeck. Our sci-fi visions of the future often run to the cold and technical, describing a life swallowed by screens, machines, and robot companions. We can do better; the best UX bends technology to the way we live our lives, not the reverse. We can find more humane inspiration in a different kind of fantasy—in the familiar, age-old tales of magic and myth.

“What if this thing was magic?” should be the opening question for designing any connected device. The internet of things is fundamentally about creating physical interfaces for digital systems, about blessing everyday objects, places, and people with extraordinary abilities. Sharing a rich trove of examples, designer Josh Clark explores the new interactive experiences that are possible when anything can be an interface and magic is your inspiration. Sling content between devices, bring objects to life from a distance, weave “spells” by combining speech and gesture. For designers of the future, it turns out Harry Potter is a better role model than Captain Kirk. Our challenge is not one of technology but of imagination.

Join these men and women in their
vision of the future

See our
fantastic lineup!

Registration
Opening Remarks
Brian David Johnson Designing the Future…and Building It…with Science Fiction!
Matt Novak A Brief History of Tomorrow
Break
John Willshire Metadesign For Murph
Josh Clark Magical UX and the Internet of Things
Chris Noessel Gorgeous Catastrophic
Lunch
Nick Foster The Future Mundane
Carla Diana Designing the Future Through Tangible Storytelling
Ingrid Burrington Come With Me If You Want To Live, or How To Survive A Time Travel Paradox
Break
Dan Hill The City of Things
Mark Stevenson Up for Grabs
Closing Remarks
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There are plenty of hotels too: Ibis, MyHotel, Artist Residence, Jury’s Inn, and Fhloston Paradise to name just a few.

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Clearleft is a user experience design consultancy based in Brighton, UK. We design delightful digital experiences.