Josh Clark
It's all mobile
On the web
- Website: Global moxie
- Twitter: @globalmoxie
Josh Clark is a designer, developer, and author specializing in mobile design strategy and user experience. He's author of the O'Reilly booksTapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps and Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. Josh's outfit Global Moxie offers workshops and consulting services to help creative companies build tapworthy mobile apps and effective websites.
Before the interwebs swallowed him up, Josh worked on a slew of American public-television 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 for fitness is the same for user experience: no pain... no pain.)
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Buttons Are a Hack: The New Rules of Designing for Touch
Fingers and thumbs turn design conventions on their head. Touchscreen interfaces create ergonomic, contextual, and even emotional demands that are unfamiliar to desktop designers. Find out why our beloved desktop windows, buttons, and widgets are weak replacements for manipulating content directly, and learn practical principles for designing mobile interfaces that are both more fun and more intuitive. Along the way, discover why buttons are a hack, how to develop your gesture vocabulary, and why toys and toddlers provide eye-opening lessons in this new style of design.