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Searching for results.Cataplasm. Athanor. Estoppel. 1 If you know the definition of these words without having to lean on Wikipedia or another source, you’re probably either a linguist or really good at Scrabble. The terms are, respectively…
Bill Burnett , co-author of the New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life , has helped countless people design and prototype a better life. At the heart of his work lies a familiar tool: design thinking. Bill…
The tenor saxophonist.”* The absence of a house style wasn’t a failure of management. It was the whole point. Each designer’s background — painter, photographer, sign-maker’s son — shows up directly in the work, because…
Events.usertesting.com/crafted with code DesignBetter100 for $100 off workshops. May 28th: Seattle, September 17th: London Get tickets The double life One of the most surprising findings in Mason’s research is how many…
And rewarded online, and that it’s our responsibility to teach it better. The book blends philosophy, ethics, and a parent’s mindset to reframe an intimidating topic in a surprisingly human way. Thought-provoking…
Link correction*: join us here for the AMA: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/181419?utm_source=live-stream-share-button (*we had some tech errors w/ Substack) Few design leaders are as articulate about process…
Builds (and vice versa). Andrew Evans — A designer-turned-magician, on the real-time trust that forms between a performer and a room full of strangers who’ve agreed to believe. Why keep it small? Because forty people…
Just see like, what's, what's going on. Um, I think critique is like, is everything. Yeah. Yeah. I was just, I'll, I'll add two, two quick things. I was just listening to an article about how like colleges, like all…
When I was in college, I took a great printmaking class with the artist Enrique Chagoya . There were no assignments — he just taught various techniques, we’d present our work, and he’d offer a helpful critique…
In this issue of The Brief : Zig then Zag: Life is a Nonlinear Journey Things to watch, read, and explore Many of the most interesting people we speak with on Design Better have taken winding paths into their creative…
Out wide and flat lenses. You’ll start to notice f-stops and depth of field. You’ll start to see the choices made that everyone else just feels. You’ll be able to notice the choices that make all the difference. This is…
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…
The most important figures in American design. Active as an architect, a product and exhibition designer and a writer, he was a leading voice in the discourse on design and architecture over several decades. “The…
Yes, I’m a Stranger Things nerd. As I mentioned in our recent interview with Stranger Things writer Paul Dichter , I watched the series myself, and then with my daughter when she was old enough, and most recently with…
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…
Of the most distinctive voices in American folk music. What you might not know is that he almost didn’t become a musician at all. There’s a version of his life where he’s still a film professor in Miami, drawing in his…
A Kickstarter for the Women’s March in Washington in January 2017, which turned out to be one of the largest demonstrations in American history, though we didn’t know that yet, raised tens of thousands of dollars, and…
How beliefs make or break us Nir Eyal is a familiar voice on Design Better and someone whose work has become essential reference across hundreds of design teams. His book Hooked taught us how to build habit-forming…
Sketch from Charles or Ray (the Eames Archive intentionally doesn’t disclose the artist) from a trip abroad. Charles’ proposal letter asking Ray to marry him, even though he’s broke. Polaroids from Charles and Ray’s…
Stamp. We pulled three things out of this conversation that go beyond “cool logo guy.” How he thinks about identity. How he actually built his design education. What he thinks he owes the people around him now that he’s…
Highest quality output: “Approach this as a staff engineer who cares deeply about code quality, maintainability, and avoiding over-engineering. [Then your request.]” Or even more specifically: “Before writing code…
Join Aarron and Eli tomorrow, Tuesday, January 27th at a PT, for a conversation about what we learned from our guests on Design Better in 2025, and what to look forward to in 2026. For the first time, we’ll be hosting…
Hey, If you lead a design team, you’ve probably felt this: your designers are talented, curious, driven, and quietly starving for growth. The day-to-day leaves little room for the kind of learning that actually builds…
In this issue of The Brief : Observations on designing a personal portfolio Things to watch, read, and explore Job openings Join Portfolio Club Wednesdays 10AM PT/1PM ET Join us every Wednesday through the end of July…
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