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The Roundup: How to defeat jargon, win over a pushy PM, and fix the collaboration gap
What we learned from Blain Billingsley, staff designer at OpenAI · Members
The Brief: 7 Principles for better AI collaboration
Principles and a downloadable kit for anyone who wants to work more efficiently with AI collaborators. · Members
The Roundup: Why some of Google's best designers spent time as PMs
Google let designer Niyati Gupta try being a PM and she became a better designer for it. · Members
The Roundup: Staff product designer on getting used to change
A special sponsored version of The Roundup in partnership with Rosenfeld Media
The Roundup: Designing a better workplace
A design system for organizations. · Members
The Roundup: Designing for a future that doesn’t exist yet
What five designers taught us about working at the edge of the known · Members
The Roundup: Constraints, craft, and the difference between design and style
What we learned from Rivian's Chief Design Officer, Jeff Hammoud · Members
The Roundup: A field guide to AI prompting
An excerpt from a new book on using Claude Code
The Roundup: The most important product you'll ever design
Three things we learned from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible · Members
The Roundup: Friction, gratification, and leaving room for imagination
Four things we learned from writer and game designer Ian Bogost · Members
The Roundup: Aaron Draplin on building a personal brand
How to find ideas and inspiration where no one else is looking. · Members
The Roundup: Design history in jazz records
How great music inspired great design. · Members
The Roundup: Summer reading list
Relaxing reads that will get your wheels turning.
The Roundup: The Cambrian Filter
Three things we learned about which tools — and ways of working — will survive · Members
The Roundup: What the founder of Creative Mornings learned about creativity
Creative Mornings founder Tina Roth Eisenberg on measuring "return on friendship," why side projects increase your surface area for luck, and the case that the future isn't lonely… · Members
The Roundup: Being correct and being ignored
Lessons we learned from writer and technologist Paul Ford · Members
The Brief: Designing your own portfolio is hell, but it doesn't have to be
Here's what I learned from this painful process. · Members
The Roundup: Who funds the future?
Jessie McGuire on how meaningful design actually gets made.
The Roundup: What AI Can't See
Five things we learned from Brooke Hopper, Senior Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and New Technology at Adobe · Members
The Roundup: How beliefs make or break us
The most dangerous words in the English language is whatever comes after ‘I am.’ · Members
The Roundup: Living a double life
Lessons we learned from Mason Currey, author of Making Art While Making a Living · Members
The Roundup: 6 Principles for Designing Pricing Pages That Convert
Drawn from our conversation with Etinosa Agbonlahor, behavioral economist and founder of Decision Alpha · Members
The Roundup: Creative teams need skeptics, sitting with the note you hate, and knowing when to break the rules
Things we learned from Stranger Things writer Paul Dichter · Members
The Roundup: Our first impressions of Claude Design
Insights from our first days experimenting with Anthropic’s new AI design tool. · Members
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