How beliefs make or break us
The most dangerous words in the English language is whatever comes after ‘I am.’
Nir Eyal: Beyond Belief and how to change your mind to change your life
Episode 176 of the Design Better Podcast
How a Single Flat Price Hurts You
A flat price forces a yes-or-no decision. Tiers turn it into "which one." This episode breaks down how the decoy effect makes that decision lean your way.
The Mistake Most Creatives Make With Pricing: A Behavioral Pricing Expert Explains
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1,000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ The mistake most creatives make isn't charging too much, it's the opposite. Behavioral pri
The Sign You're Underpriced
If everybody says yes and nobody ever pushes back on price, you're probably underpriced. This episode explains the signal most business owners miss.
Mason Currey: Author of Daily Rituals on Making Art and Making a Living
Episode 175 of the Design Better Podcast
Why Your Pricing Tells Customers How to Value You - Fidelity's Former Behavioral Researcher
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1,000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ The price you put on your work isn't just a number. It's the signal customers use to decid
How Wine and Brain Scans Explain Pricing
Same wine. Different price tags. Wildly different brain activity. The INSEAD study that shows why customers use your price as the signal for what you're worth.
Design Better for Teams
Slack and MS Teams apps bring all of DB into your workspace
6 Principles for Designing Pricing Pages That Convert
Drawn from our conversation with Etinosa Agbonlahor, behavioral economist and founder of Decision Alpha
Etinosa Agbonlahor: Behavioral economist on why pricing belongs in the design process
Episode 174 of the Design Better Podcast
When Everyone on Set Can Find the Gold
The best films get made when everyone is invited in. Scouting turns into a process of discovery. When every person on set knows ...
Why Historical Accuracy Is the Wrong Target, with Hamnet's Fiona Crombie
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ Most period films ...
The Tree You'll Never See in This Movie
There's a fully grown tree in this film you'll never see. Her mother's name is Rowan, so we brought in a Rowan tree and placed it ...
We Could Lose Something Crucial to the Design Process
AI is making design tools faster, smoother, more effortless. But what happens to your creative process when the tools do all the ...
The Simple Practice That Unlocks Creative Thinking
Curiosity + Mystery = Wonder ✨ Wonder is a state of awe backed by neuroscience — and anyone can access it. Try it: go for a ...
How Do You Build a World That Feels Lived In? Fiona Crombie on Designing Hamnet
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ Period films tend to ...
AI Gets You 80% There (Here's What Closes the Gap)
Can creativity be automated? AI can start the work, but it can't finish it. For designers who care about craft, that last 20% is ...
You're Looking for Meaning in the Wrong Place
Meaning isn't in the projects you finish or the things you ship. It's in the moments underneath — flow, connection, the feeling that ...
The Return of Playfulness in Design
AI is changing how designers work — and not always in a bad way. Adobe's Brooke Hopper is seeing a new playfulness in design ...
Why AI Will Never Replace Designers with Adobe's Brooke Hopper
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ AI can get you 80% ...
Paul Dichter: Stranger Things writer on why the writers’ room isn’t so different from the design studio
Episode 173 of the Design Better Podcast
What Most People Miss About Their First Job
Your first job doesn't usually last long — and neither does the work. But the people you meet, learn from, and build real ...
Austin Kleon on How the Idea Comes Through Action
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ Do you wait for the ...
Our first impressions of Claude Design
Insights from our first days experimenting with Anthropic’s new AI design tool.
THIS Is The Best Creative Habit
It's hard, but take a day off. No studio, no screens, no work. You might hate it in the moment, but you always come back sharper, ...
What It Means to Be a Designer in the Age of AI with Adobe's Brooke Hopper
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ The tools are ...
What a 4-Year-Old Can Teach You About Creativity
Kids don't need a book about creativity... but we might. They don't lose themselves in whether something is good or bad. They just ...
Why Every Creative Needs a Physical Practice
One of the great misunderstandings about creative work is that you have an idea, then go to the page and write it down. Most of ...
Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: "Innovation-ish" and why most innovation doesn’t have to be a moonshot
Episode 172 of the Design Better Podcast
The Best Artists Do This Differently
Your best work probably won't come from a plan. In fact, a famous psychology study followed art students through their careers ...
Luis Mendo: Designer turned illustrator on making things that could only come from you
Episode 171 of the Design Better Podcast
The Post-It Note Exercise That Unlocks Better Ideas
Think you've run out of ideas? Research actually shows the opposite — the ideas you generate after you think you're ...
Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Do This Instead
Creativity is not a flash of lightning or a lucky break. It's an excavation. Take this archaeological approach to uncover your best ...
Stop Chasing Happiness — Stanford Professor Explains What Works Instead
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ Most people look for ...
How AI Is F*ing Up the Creative Process — and What We Should Do About It
Here's what we're seeing as AI reshapes teams and how we work.
Your Best Creative Ideas Don't Come From Your Brain
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ What if your best ...
David Shim and Rachana Rele: Read AI CEO and VP of Product Design for AI-native products at Adobe on amplifying creative work — not replacing it
A bonus episode from Design Better
The Myth That's Killing Your Best Creative Work
Get ad-free episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ The lone genius, the ...
Leonardo Giusti: Archetype AI's co-founder on physical AI and the limits of the chatbot
Episode 170 of the Design Better Podcast
Specialists Are the Most Exposed to AI. Here's What to Do About It.
Our world doesn’t quite know what to do with multidisciplinary thinkers. It can’t find the right category for us. Eli and I are exactly those kinds of people — we have wide-ranging interests, we like
A Definitive Guide to Running Effective Design Critiques That Actually Work
A critique culture doesn’t just produce better designs; it produces better designers.
Brooke Hopper: Adobe's machine intelligence design lead on what AI can't touch
Episode 169 of the Design Better Podcast
Design Better guest Autumn Durald Arkapaw wins an Oscar!
And other noteworthy guests who have been nominated or won this year and past years.
How YouTube Redesigned Its App on a Global Scale (Without Losing Users)
Two decades, two billion users — and YouTube is still being redesigned. In this episode, you'll hear from the people doing it.
Daisy Fancourt: Epidemiologist on how creativity rewrites your biology and extends your lifespan
Episode 168 of the Design Better Podcast
Fiona Crombie: Academy Award-nominated production designer on storytelling without words
Episode 167 of the Design Better Podcast
Join us for a special online event: How AI is changing confidence in design
A panel discussion with UserTesting
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine: Grammy-nominated musician on creativity, collaboration, and why a good day is finding one great lyric
Episode 166 of the Design Better Podcast
The Art of Noticing.
A guest post from James Buckhouse, Design Better Expert in Residence
George Newman: Cognitive scientist on why creativity is more like archaeology than magic
Episode 165 of the Design Better Podcast
4 things you need to make work (and life) meaningful
Insights from recent Design Better interviews.
Geetika Agrawal Found the Cure for Burnout, and Turned It Into a Business
Are you putting energy into your battery or pouring it all into your work?
Nate Koechley and Matthew Darby: YouTube's UX Director and Director of PM on redesigning one of the world's most-used apps
Episode 164 of the Design Better Podcast
Designing the Olympics: How You Build a Brand at Massive Scale
Years of work come down to one global moment — and then it's over. That's what it's like designing for the Olympics. Raffaella ...
Bill Burnett: How to Live a Meaningful Life
Episode 163 of the Design Better Podcast
Craft is great, but it isn't enough
Insights from recent Design Better interviews.
The Most Underrated Skill Designers Rarely Practice w/ Mikon van Gastel of Sibling Rivalry
Most agencies are drowning in pitches or losing their identity to holding companies. What Mikon van Gastel of Sibling Rivalry ...
When Design Roles Collapse and AI Accelerates: What Tech Can't Replace
The difference between designers 30 years ago and today? It's not just about new tools, but new roles. Designers are expected to ...
Austin Kleon: Author of "Steal Like an Artist" on building a sustainable creative practice
Episode 162 of the Design Better Podcast
Raffaela Panie: Building brand systems at olympic scale
Episode 161 of the Design Better Podcast
The Year of Mass Acceleration
Insights from recent Design Better interviews.
Design Better Experts in Residence: Three pioneers on design's evolution
Episode 160 of the Design Better Podcast
Mikon van Gastel: Co-Founder of Sibling Rivalry on why presentation skills matter more than design skills
Episode 159 of the Design Better Podcast
Mark Wilson: Fast Company's Global Design Editor on design's defining moments in 2025
Episode 158 of the Design Better Podcast
Video Rewind: Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster
We’re taking a holiday break, so we’re rewinding to one of our favorite episodes this year with Cassie McDaniel, Medium’s head of design. We’re also including video from the episode, which you can wat
Our Favorite Books of 2025
Books that made us reexamine the creative process
Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett are making running a design studio easier
Running a creative business shouldn't feel harder than the work itself. That's why Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett founded ...
The $400k Designer vs. The $40k Designer: Aaron Draplin Reveals the Culture Clash at Nike
A larger than life figure in the creative world, Aaron Draplin has been designing everything from logos to posters since 1995.
Aaron Draplin: DDC founder on the work ethic he learned from his parents, and why being prolific isn’t about perfection—it’s about experimentation, and loving your work enough to show up
Episode 157 of the Design Better Podcast
Why Medium Removed Product Managers (& The Impact on Their Design Team) with Cassie McDaniel
The design industry is changing and so are its teams. Head of Design at Medium, Cassie McDaniel leads a small team that cut the ...
Forget About “Radical Candor” – Try Radical Humanity Instead with Alison Rand
DesignOps used to be the hot new buzzword, but now it needs a rebrand. If you’ve been doing this work for a while, then you know it’s not just about processes and tools — it’s about people. In this ep
Forget About “Radical Candor” – Try Radical Humanity Instead with Alison Rand
DesignOps used to be the hot new buzzword, but now it needs a rebrand. If you've been doing this work for a while, then you ...
The best holiday gift—repair a beloved object
Sometimes the best gift isn't something new—it's restoring something old. Find a local tailor, cobbler, or craftsperson and repair ...
The keyboard that will make your creative work faster.
If you spend your days in Premiere, Photoshop, or Final Cut, these keyboards have all the quick keys built right in.
Stuff their stockings with the BEST pencils!
For the creative thinkers in your life, give a gift that will remind them of you all year long. The Ohto Mechanical Pencil is a brilliant ...
A Gift Guide for the Creatives in Your Life
Need gift ideas that aren't cliche, feel thoughtful, and actually spark creativity? The Design Better 2025 Gift Guide rounds up gifts ...
Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett: Designing business tools that support how creatives actually work
Episode 156 of the Design Better Podcast
2025 Holiday Gift Guide
Gifts for the makers, thinkers, and people who notice the details.
The nonlinear journey of a nuclear engineer turned Nike designer
A guest post from Kevin Bethune, Design Better Expert in Residence
Phil Gilbert: How to transform a 114-year-old company's design culture
Episode 155 of the Design Better Podcast
What history teaches us about the struggle between humans and machines
An excerpt from the book Designing for Emotion
How AI will help us learn faster
Henry Modisett, Perplexity's VP of Design, explains how AI will make learning easier by giving everyone a personal tutor on any ...
What makes Perplexity different?
Nobody has time to keep up with all the AI tools, so you may not know what makes Perplexity such an amazing product.
Perplexity's agents are amazing!
Henry Modisett, Perplexity's VP of Design, explains how their agents can do your bidding and make life easier.
What Most Companies Get Wrong About Designing in the Age of AI
The role of design is being reinvented in real time, and most companies are missing it. At Perplexity, AI isn’t just changing what they design — it’s changing how they think, develop, and collaborate.
Cecilia Brenner: Mobilizing designers to tackle sustainable development goals
Episode 154 of the Design Better Podcast
How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Design with Perplexity’s Henry Modisett
The role of design is being reinvented in real time, and most companies are missing it. At Perplexity, AI isn't just changing what ...
Video Rewind: Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir
We’ve been on the road this week, recording some in-person episodes in Portland Oregon, with Ryan Coulter—co-founder of The James Brand, and the wonderfully hilarious graphic designer Aaron Draplin.
Ben Swire: Author of "Safe Danger" on the hidden reason team building efforts fail
Episode 153 of the Design Better Podcast
3 Rules That Make Moonshots Possible (& Why Most Fail)
New video interview on YouTube
3 Rules That Make Moonshots Possible (& Why Most Fail)
Every breakthrough starts the same way: with a problem no one quite knows how to solve yet. For Astro Teller and Ivo Stivoric of ...
The Design Better Toolkit has been upgraded: new tools and creative fuel
A collection of AI tools and design courses to build skills and grow a career.
Jeremy Faludi: Sustainability professor on why most sustainable design fails before it starts
Episode 152 of the Design Better Podcast
Alison Rand: Leading with radical humanity instead of radical candor
Episode 151 of the Design Better Podcast
The Brief: How our recent past should prepare us for the age of AI
The monthly dispatch from Design Better
This is How Design Schools Teach Creative Thinking
Go deeper into design at http://designbetterpodcast.com --- Creativity isn't magic or a sudden spark. It's a process of seeing, ...
Fitz and the Tantrums: Finding your creative voice in your 40's and why success feels different than you think
Episode 150 of the Design Better Podcast
What do creativity researchers think about Gen AI?
Go deeper into design at http://designbetterpodcast.com.
Introducing a new video version of the Design Better Podcast
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Experts at MoMA, FastCo, Microsoft, GV, and Anthropic on how design shapes (and may break) our world
Go deeper into design at http://designbetterpodcast.com ---- We're celebrating Wert&Co's 30th year in business—the quiet ...
What do the most creative people have in common?
Listen to the full interview at https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/keith-sawyer.
Does creativity disappear as you age?
Go deeper into design at http://designbetterpodcast.com.
Wert&Co. at 30: Reflections on Design, Leadership, and the Future
Today we celebrate 30 years of Wert&Co.—the quiet champions of design who have shaped our field by placing the brightest designers in roles of influence at brands that impact culture, commerce, and co
Announcing Design Better’s New Experts in Residence
Irene Au, Kevin Bethune, and James Buckhouse bring new perspectives to Design Better.
Rewind: Paola Antonelli: How design shapes culture
Design Better has been on the road recently, recording a live episode in Manhattan for design search firm Wert & Co’s 30th anniversary. Guests for the episode included Paola Antonelli (senior curator
Keith Sawyer: Become more creative by learning to see
Episode 149 of the Design Better Podcast
Jae Park: Designing a new generation of vehicles at Ford, and why friction matters in the creative process
Episode 148 of the Design Better Podcast
Astro Teller & Ivo Stivoric: Why moonshots require unlearning everything you know
Episode 147 of the Design Better Podcast
Henry Modisett: Perplexity’s VP of Design on embracing ambiguity and leading with curiosity
Episode 146 of the Design Better Podcast
Elizabeth Lin: Rethinking design education in the age of AI
Episode 145 of the Design Better Podcast
Announcing the Design Better Toolkit
A collection of AI tools and design courses to build skills and grow a career.
Nick Foster: Could, Should, Might, Don't—a new way to think about designing for the future
Episode 144 of the Design Better Podcast
Design Engineering Handbook
By Natalya Shelburne, Adekunle Oduye, Kim Williams, Eddie Lou, and Caren Litherland (editor)
Tim Brown: Allbirds co-founder on mission-driven design and entrepreneurship
Episode 143 of the Design Better Podcast
Collaboration Handbook
By Elijah Woolery and Aarron Walter
Matt Raw: Balancing legacy and innovation at The New York Times
Episode 142 of the Design Better Podcast
The Brief: Microscopes and telescopes
Your monthly dispatch from Design Better.
Rhiannon Bell: Designing the future of search at Google
Episode 141 of the Design Better Podcast
Bonus Episode: Inside Sonos's distributed research & design process for the Arc Ultra
We chat with Matt Benatan, Principal Research Scientist, and Naphur van Apeldoorn, Senior Manager, Hardware Development Engineering, about the design and development of their newest product.
Listen to the recording of our AMA with Noah Levin on Figma's latest release
Noah Levin on scaling design teams in the AI era, improving designer–developer collaboration, and what’s next for Figma’s workflow tools.
Design Better Live AMA at The New York Times
Aarron and Eli join Matt Raw, interim head of design, at the Times headquarters for a conversation with their design team
Video Rewind: Kamasi Washington: A jazz genius on collaborative lessons learned from Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, and more
This is the second installment in our series of video rewind episodes, with an interview featuring jazz legend Kamasi Washington.
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred: Sentient Design and the future of interfaces
Episode 140 of Design Better Podcast
The hard truths designers need to hear
We all want to be the type of designer who has influence at work. Are you willing to be the designer that has it? Let’s find out.
Bonus Episode: Shani Sandy, VP, Experience Design at IBM, live in NYC for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour
A special sponsored episode of the Design Better Podcast
Get our latest book: Design Leadership Handbook
We’ve just added another book to the Design Better library. The Design Leadership Handbook is a practical guide for designers stepping into leadership roles, offering a clear roadmap for managing team
Design Better Summer Reading
Essential reads from our favorite podcast guests to fuel your creativity this season
Design Leadership Handbook
By Elijah Woolery and Aarron Walter
Christopher Lyons: From producing music to venture capital, and why EQ beats IQ in building the future
Episode 139 of the Design Better Podcast
The books all designers need to succeed
Lunch break learning that will make you better at your job!
Designing for Emotion
By Aarron Walter
Bonus Episode: Champ Bennett, co-founder of Capsule, on making motion design easy and scalable
A special sponsored episode of the Design Better Podcast
Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster
Episode 138 of the Design Better Podcast
Brad Frost on the magic of design tokens
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The Roundup: AI creative workflow, vibe coding, ethics, agents, and more
A new format to expand your education from Design Better
Video Rewind: John Cleese: A cheerful guide to creativity
Hi everyone!
Design Better Tea
A new collaboration with our friends at Methodical.
Marco Suarez: From designer to coffee entrepreneur ☕
A special sponsored episode of the Design Better Podcast
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross: Your Brain on Art
Episode 137 of the Design Better Podcast
Rewind: OK Go: Making the impossible possible
OK Go has a new album and several new music videos, so we're revisiting their episode.
Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir
Episode 136 of the Design Better Podcast
Introducing Design Better's Experts in Residence Program
We’re teaming up with brilliant design and tech pros to expand the Design Better experience.
Brad Frost: Design systems are about human relationships
Episode 135 of the Design Better Podcast
Heidi Trost: Human Centered Security
Episode 134 of the Design Better Podcast
The Brief: Afraid of losing your job? Become irreplaceable
The monthly dispatch from Design Better.
Trenton Doyle Hancock: An artist’s process for creating order from chaos
Episode 133 of the Design Better Podcast
Dan Harden: Form follows emotion—industrial design lessons from George Nelson to Steve Jobs
Episode 132 of the Design Better Podcast
Kristen Berman: Behavioral economics expert on designing products that change behavior
Episode 131 of the Design Better Podcast
Free AMA: Kevin Bethune on nonlinear thinking
Was held Tuesday March 11 12PMPT/3PMET/8PM GMT (free for all DB subscribers!)
Gareth Hinds: A golden age for the graphic novel
Episode 130 of the Design Better Podcast
From your inbox to your ears: Audio versions of The Brief
Every month, our premium subscribers receive our newsletter The Brief , which assembles wisdom gleaned from interviews with creative thinkers. It’s a chance to go deeper into salient topics like creat
Kevin Bethune: Nonlinear—Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction
Episode 129 of the Design Better Podcast
Introducing the Design Better Directory
Helping talented designers and great companies find each other.
Scott Belsky: Adobe's Chief Strategist on navigating the creative Cambrian Explosion
Episode 128 of the Design Better Podcast
Idris Brewster: Bringing history to life with augmented reality
Episode 127 of the Design Better Podcast
Jake Knapp: Click—How to make what people want
Episode 126 of the Design Better Podcast
What do many creative people have in common? ADHD.
The monthly dispatch from Design Better. This issue is free!
Jenny Blackburn: Google's VP of UX for Gemini on how generative AI can improve our workflows
Episode 125 of the Design Better Podcast
Scott Berkun: Why Design is Hard
Episode 124 of the Design Better Podcast
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Marcus Bell: Producer and songwriter for Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, and Timbaland on music and creativity in the age of AI
Episode 123 of the Design Better Podcast
Rewind: Jonathan Hoefler: Typography legend on type history, philosophy, and entrepreneurship
Hi folks!
What designers can learn from filmmakers
The monthly dispatch from Design Better.
Alastair Simpson: From professional soccer to leading design at Dropbox
Episode 122 of the Design Better Podcast
Bonus Episode: Jason Giles, VP of Product Design at UserTesting, live in Austin
A special sponsored episode of the Design Better Podcast
Preview our latest book: Principles of Product Design
An excerpt from our ebook Principles of Product Design, the essential book for understanding the best practices of product design.
What designers can learn from musicians
The monthly dispatch from Design Better.
Bishop Briggs: Award winning singer-songwriter on creative transformation after loss
Episode 121 of the Design Better Podcast
Design Better Premium discount extended—25% off annual subscription
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A rare discount on a year of Design Better Premium—Now 25% off
And announcing a new book—Principles of Product Design
Design Better 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
Gifts for designers, creatives, and anyone who appreciates well-designed products.
In Memoriam: Enrique Allen — Designer, Entrepreneur, and Father
We were extremely saddened to learn today about the passing of Enrique Allen, co-founder of the Designer Fund.
Live at Savannah College of Art and Design, with Kate Aronowitz, Steve Johnson, Kat Holmes and Jaime Lopez
Episode 120 of the Design Better Podcast
Bonus Episode: Gali Erez, head of Wix Studio
A special sponsored episode of the Design Better Podcast
Kamasi Washington: A jazz genius on collaborative lessons learned from Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, and more
Episode 119 of the Design Better Podcast
Adam Moss: The Work of Art
Episode 118 of the Design Better Podcast
All your work will soon disappear
The monthly dispatch from Design Better.
Andrew Evans: Design & magic 🪄
Episode 117 of the Design Better Podcast
Diane Hoskins and Andy Cohen: Design for a Radically Changing World
Episode 116 of the Design Better Podcast
Jason Chatfield: New Yorker cartoonist on his creative process
Episode 115 of the Design Better Podcast
Matthias Hollwich: AI & Architecture
Episode 114 of the Design Better Podcast
Skye Waterson: Creative work and ADHD
Episode 113 of the Design Better Podcast
Design thinking in the age of AI
What does it mean to be a human-centered designer in the age of AI? This is something my colleague Bobby Hughes and I have been asking ourselves since we started running our AI+Design Thinking worksho
Enrique Allen: Design and entrepreneurship at Designer Fund
Episode 112 of the Design Better Podcast
Yashar Kassai: Artwork and production design for Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse, TMNT, and more
Episode 111 of the Design Better Podcast
The learning opportunities you may be missing
Recordings of every Design Better AMA
Shirley Kurata and Mimi Haddon: Palace Costume and costume design for "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Episode 110 of the Design Better Podcast
Rewind: Vicki Tan: Learning from new voices
This week, we’re rewinding to one of our favorite episodes from our 6th season, with Vicki Tan. Vicki is a designer and author, who is now a staff product designer at Pinterest. When we spoke with her
Creativity multipliers and how nature informs design
This issue is sponsored by UserTesting. Join us in Austin Oct 28-30 for The Human Insight Summit.
Connor Moore: Sound design for Tesla, Uber, Peloton and more
Episode 108 of the Design Better Podcast
Matt Abrahams: Think Faster, Talk Smarter
Episode 107 of the Design Better Podcast
A ✨magical✨ panel discussion at The Magic Patio in San Francisco
At Design Better, we’re always looking for new ways to help leaders level up their teams. To that end, we’ve partnered with friends at UserTesting on a leadership event happening in September.
Quilt + Mike & Maaike: Designing for sustainability
Episode 106 of the Design Better Podcast
Rewind: Julie Zhuo: Facebook's former VP of Product Design on what she got right and wrong as a leader
Hi folks!
Roger Horrocks: My Octopus Teacher's cinematographer on shaping story and cultivating patience
Episode 105 of the Design Better Podcast
Steve Portigal: The art of interviewing users
Episode 104 of the Design Better Podcast
Where design breaks as startups scale
In this issue of The Brief: Lessons on scaling design from Google, Airbnb, and Apple Inspiring quotes about creativity Recent job openings Things to read, watch, and cook Where Design Breaks as Startu
Dan Mall: Scaling design systems
Episode 103 of the Design Better Podcast
Rewind: Sara Seager: Astrophysicist pushing the boundaries of collaboration while discovering exoplanets
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Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley: Assembling Tomorrow
Episode 102 of the Design Better Podcast
Celene Aubry: 100+ years of designing for legendary musicians at Hatch Show Print
Episode 101 of the Design Better Podcast
Hillary Coe: Emmy Award-winning designer, certified commercial pilot, astronaut candidate, and drag-racing record holder on designing for SpaceX and Vast
Episode 100 of the Design Better Podcast
Why taste is your most important design tool
In this issue of The Brief:
Bonus: Adobe Design Talks on AI and the Creative Process
Generative AI is finding its way into the tools and processes that power creative work. Exciting? Terrifying? Maybe a little of both. Adobe has been not only shipping impressive generative AI tools an
Ben Clymer: Hodinkee founder on watch design and creating a compelling content brand
Episode 99 of the Design Better Podcast
Natsai Audrey Chieza: Designing with biology
Episode 98 of the Design Better Podcast
Pablo Stanley: A creative force of nature on the importance of persistence and hustle
Episode 97 of the Design Better Podcast
Tasha Golden: Avoiding burnout while pursuing creativity with passion
Episode 96 of the Design Better Podcast
Jonathan Adler: Famed potter and designer on bringing creativity into all aspects of life
Episode 95 of the Design Better Podcast
Making Design Better—better—with weekly episodes, an enhanced newsletter, and more
TL;DR We’re transitioning to weekly episode releases, publishing an enhanced newsletter, and simplifying our premium subscription which will now be on Substack.
Brian Tyler, composer for Yellowstone, Crazy Rich Asians, Mario Brothers, and more, on his creative process
Episode 94 of the Design Better Podcast
Bonus: Eric Snowden, Head of Adobe Design, on AI + Design
Adobe has been the big wrench in our creative toolbox for decades. But there’s a new tool shaking up our workflow —Generative AI. Eric Snowden, leader of Adobe’s design team, sees a big opportunity fo
Kate Aronowitz: Shaping the story of design in business
Episode 93 of the Design Better Podcast
Ellen Lupton: Thinking With Type
Episode 92 of the Design Better Podcast
Jonathan Hoefler: Typography legend on type history, philosophy, and entrepreneurship
Episode 91 of the Design Better Podcast
Autumn Durald Arkapaw: Cinematographer for Wakanda Forever and Loki, and Academy Award winner for Sinners, on the overlap between design and photography
Episode 88 of the Design Better Podcast
David Sedaris: How one of the world's top humorists uses observation and prototyping to hone his craft
Episode 80 of the Design Better Podcast
Tony Fadell: How to build the future
Episode 71 of the Design Better Podcast
Meredith Black: DesignOps has become essential
Episode 68 of the Design Better Podcast
Guy Kawasaki: Lessons from Apple's early days
Episode 61 of the Design Better Podcast
Felecia Hatcher: Black Ambition CEO on entrepreneurship and working with Pharrell Williams
Episode 66 of the Design Better Podcast
Katrina Alcorn: IBM’s head of design on why partnerships are essential
Episode 64 of the Design Better Podcast
Nir Eyal: How to be Indistractable
Episode 63 of the Design Better Podcast
Detria Williamson: Making collaboration more inclusive
Episode 62 of the Design Better Podcast
Eileen Fisher: How design principles and systems guide a clothing company
In his book The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda says that “simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.” Our final guest this season, Eileen Fisher, is a master at making the
Spotify’s Vicki Tan: Learning from new voices
Episode 58 of the Design Better Podcast
Scott Berkun on how design makes the world
Do you have a colleague who just doesn’t get what design is all about? Or maybe you’ve tried explaining it to your parents, but they just respond by asking you to fix their printer.
Ford’s Sandy Fershee on driving innovation with human-centered design
The most innovative electric car announced in 2021 was not a Tesla, but a Ford. The new Ford F-150 Lightning, a fully electric version of the best-selling vehicle in America for the past 30 years, is
Rosanne Somerson: A look inside RISD, one of America’s premier design schools
In its 144-year history, the Rhode Island School of Design—also known as RISD—has graduated numerous notable designers and creatives, from graphic designers Shepard Fairey and Tobias Frere-Jones, to p
Dan Pink: Why collaboration is the key to being persuasive
Episode 51 of the Design Better Podcast
Doug Pray and Matt Weaver: Apple TV+ Home and how spaces change our behavior
Of the designed objects we interact with on a daily basis, our homes are probably the most influential on the way we live our lives. In Apple’s new series Home, the creators investigate the ways that
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: Designing for trust
It all started with a box of cereal. Well, that’s not exactly the beginning, but when Brian Chesky and his roommates had maxed out their credit cards while starting up what would become Airbnb, they h
Annie Jean Baptiste: Google's approach to inclusive design
As designers and design leaders, most of us understand the ethical importance of making our products accessible and inclusive for all the people who use them. But we don’t always understand the best w
Debbie Millman: Revealing what matters the most to designers and creatives
We’re not ashamed to admit that, when we booked Debbie Millman for our show, we were a little intimidated. Not by Debbie herself, who always comes across as kind, smart, and thoughtful in the intervie
Marty Cagan: Understanding product management and Agile
Are you on a product team or a feature team? After you listen to our interview with Marty Cagan, legendary product management guru, author, and partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, you’ll know jus
Steve Rader: NASA's approach to problem-solving and leading people
There’s a lot of talk in the tech world about moonshots, and what it takes to build a team capable of achieving them. We thought it might be helpful to speak with someone at an organization that has a
The New York Times’ Natalya Shelburne: Bridging the designer and developer divide by building trust
Episode 38 of the Design Better Podcast
Jina Anne on Design Systems
If you’re engaged in any sort of community surrounding Design Systems, whether it’s the Design Systems Slack, or the Clarity Conference, then you have likely benefited from Jina Anne’s work. A self-st
Airbnb’s Benjamin Evans on the power of inclusive design
Benjamin Evans, Inclusive Design Lead for Airbnb, is part of a new kind of problem solvers tackling issues like racism, sexism, and bias in digital product design. In this episode of the Design Better
Julie Zhuo: Facebook's former VP of Product Design on what she got right and wrong as a leader
Episode 30 of the Design Better Podcast
Mia Blume: Are you ready to shift from team member to team leader?
Episode 10 of the Design Better Podcast
Dan Winger: building the future at LEGO
Episode 3 of the Design Better Podcast
Irene Au: Scaling design at Google and beyond
Episode 1 of the Design Better Podcast