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What Separates Great Designers (It Isn't Taste)
Your best work starts where you'd normally stop. That transition still feels off, and you want to go home. Great designers stay and ask why it isn't good yet. With the new tools…
How to Handle a Pushy PM
Want more say in the work? Give some away first. When someone pushes hard for their idea, build it in good faith. It sometimes turns out well, and next time you push back, they're…
Agree on the Scorecard First
Every meeting ends in the same argument? You're grading different things. You want the email playful. Your PM wants it authoritative. "Be clear" settles nothing, since nobody…
What Actually Separates Great Designers When Anyone Can Use AI
You get better results from AI when you give it a goal and criteria for success and leave the steps to it. Blaine Billingsley saw it when his less technical wife's prototypes came…
Why AI Has Designers Going in Circles Faster Than Ever
AI lets everyone on your team build whatever they think should exist, without talking to anybody. So the more you all make, the less you actually agree on. Blaine Billingsley, a…
Creative Leadership Retreat: Paul Dichter
A special live episode in partnership with September Works
The Roundup: What three years of AI workshops taught us
How to strengthen your creative confidence by researching, designing, and building with AI.
Maurice Cherry: Revision Path creator on why attention isn’t impact
Episode 197 of the Design Better Podcast
Business Thinking for Designers
By Ryan Rumsey. Business Thinking for Designers By Ryan Rumsey This book is brought to you by InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer…
Why the Creative Class Is About to Take Off
Creativity is a discipline in optimism. Before you can come up with a better idea, you have to believe a better way exists. Start there, and you'll tune in to what you'd actually…
Why You Still Haven't Shared That Project
That project you never dared to share? This is your permission to put it out. So much cynicism and judgment keeps your work in the drawer. Over 2,000 creatives have pledged to…
The Roundup: Lessons on typography from Tom Foley, Ellen Lupton, and Jonathon Hoefler
Tips and tricks for beginner, intermediate, and advanced typographers
How One Creative Project Just for Fun Opened Countless Doors
The side project you start just for fun can take you further than the one that has to pay your rent. Tina Roth Eisenberg explains why calling it an experiment takes the pressure…
The state of design in 2026
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Why Your Side Project Gets You Hired
Starting something just for fun gives luck more ways to find you. When it doesn't have to pay your rent, the lightness shows. People sense that joy, and they love hiring someone…
Tom Foley: How to pair typefaces and why the best brand fonts go unnoticed
Episode 196 of the Design Better Podcast
How CreativeMornings Helps Design Flourish
Putting your work out there feels riskier than ever, with so much cynicism and judgment online. Tina Roth Eisenberg built CreativeMornings so creatives would have a room full of…
Naivete Was My Best Friend
Not needing much is a superpower early on. Spend an early sale on McDonald's and toys, sleep on the floor, keep the 2007 Corolla. With no idea who's gunning for you, the people…
The Brief: The essential setup for building web apps with AI
A field guide to the elements of modern web apps and how to start building.
Don't Wait for Inspiration. Put Art on a Calendar
No athlete walks onto the field cold and expects magic. Get the pen out, move your hand. Lay down a base color and see what clicks. Break the work into layers that fit on a…
Start With Ideas, Not the Medium
Your go-to tool is quietly choosing your ideas. If a painting tells the story better than a sculpture, make the painting. If five paintings beat an animation, paint five. Let the…
Trenton Doyle Hancock: From Chaos to Order
Before you tidy your desk, find out which part of the mess is pulling its weight. Trenton Doyle Hancock trains his assistant not to throw anything away, lets found objects seep…
Kevin Flores: Find Your Inner Rebel
Episode 195 of the Design Better Podcast
Why the Tool You Know Best Is Choosing Your Ideas
If your work keeps coming out looking like the last thing you made, the tool you know best is choosing your ideas for you. Trenton Doyle Hancock was in the Whitney Biennial at 26…
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