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Searching for results.And reduce frustrating miscommunications. An AI collaboration toolkit At the end I’ve put everything their answers taught me into a kit you can download and use today: A prompt that makes an AI agent interview you…
Mar 12, 2026 | TIME: am EDT AI is changing how design teams work — faster than most organizations know how to handle. Teams are moving quickly, expectations are rising, and yet something curious is happening as work…
How AI Is F*ing Up the Creative Process — and What We Can Do About It Claude Code and Claude Cowork have become the darlings of the tech world, and the mood across design and research teams right now is something close…
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. In this video…
And reference in decisions. Gain confidence creating visual assets — Build simple, effective visuals that bring emotion to your work and make insights easier to understand and harder to ignore — without needing a…
Hi folks! Bobby Hughes and I have created a new workshop offering, aimed at Design Researchers (but also useful if you are a more generalist designer who would like to increase your influence on your team and…
A field guide to AI prompting This week, we’re sharing a chapter from Think. Prompt. Create , a book written by Joey Primiani’s , a member of the Design Better community. Most of the anxiety we hear about AI isn’t…
Judgment, empathy and understanding of human needs and behaviors, and natural curiosity, are becoming more important than ever. We recently had Brooke Hopper, Senior Principal Designer for Machine Intelligence and New…
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 the big picture…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Pentagram, and Figma. He is the creator of the Float Label pattern (now adopted by Apple, Google, and countless companies), designer of Figma plugins Contrast and Flowkit, and creator of FloatPrompt…
Want to actually evaluate Claude Design, carve out focused sessions and budget for the cool-down periods. We’d love to see Anthropic publish per-prompt token costs more transparently, because right now the budgeting is…
Where the thing actually has to work — really work, for real users, with real data — the pace drops back down to earth. Paul has been living this dynamic inside Aboard: “The coding is really fast, but the thinking is…
Three ways of working keep surfacing, like body plans that might actually survive the filter. AI x Influence Workshop Bobby Hughes and I have a few spaces left in our upcoming AI x Influence for Design Researchers…
Crafting intelligent interfaces with AI On Tuesday, May 12 , we’re sitting down with Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred , authors of Sentient Design, for a live AMA you won’t want to miss. If you haven’t heard of Sentient…
Is now duking it out in a crowded arena with Canva and Adobe, all elbowing for space using the same AI-powered capabilities. The commoditization of features is happening so fast that “new feature” announcements no…
Not want to!). Here are five ideas from the conversation that stayed with us. * Design Better subscribers can get 20% off a membership to Mundo Mendo, which includes a book every year: dbtr.co/mundomendo Meet Crafted…
Condemnation of the text box, but instead a moment of recognition of priors and an act of curiosity and bravery. It makes me want to be just as brave. To design for transformation at every level. Moments of Noticing…
Morality, and fulfilling our potential. This model can help us understand design goals. We could aim to satisfy only the bottom three layers—function, reliability, usability—but real fulfillment is found at the top…
Itself is the leverage point. If the belief isn’t there, the system collapses no matter how clever the trigger. Every change-management problem you’ve ever run into at work is fundamentally a belief problem…
Time something is proven, it’s no longer the future. It’s already the system. We don’t have to wait to be the organizations willing to invest that way. We can choose to be them right now. Jessie McGuire is the managing…
Before we get to The Roundu p, we wanted to share some of the exciting guests we have in queue, including: Fiona Crombie, Academy Award-nominated production designer for the film Hamnet. Sam Beam, Grammy Award-nominated…
To be separate from the product it needs, like, and the marketing needs to understand the product, but also the product needs to understand how this is going to actually be marketed and sold. So I do think that those…
At the landscape of being an individual contributor and still having influence, without being trapped in a management role. Why did you write it? I was struggling to figure out what the expectations were when I was…
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