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Searching for results.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…
Years ago, two friends in Philadelphia went looking for a parking lot. They’d been staring at the same six words on the back of their favorite jazz records for years — recorded by Van Gelder in Hackensack , and one…
We’ve been to a lot of conferences over the years. You know the format: a speaker on a stage, a sea of seats, a hallway where the real conversations happen if you’re lucky enough to catch someone before they’re whisked…
Is available for Design Better premium members. Link and code after the paywall below at the bottom of this post. Constraints are the job Jeff’s never been drawn to concept cars. To him they’re “gratuitous” — beautiful…
In graduate school, Randy Hunt spent weeks on a poster for Milton Glaser ’s class. He built an image entirely from hand lettering, so it read as a picture from across the room and as words up close. Glaser pointed at it…
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…
As metaphor when we spoke with him last year to describe what generative AI is doing to software. “So now we’re in this Cambrian Explosion of sorts where there are just so many new models and capabilities and apps and…
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…
The magic again. They can actually create some of the ideas that maybe they just didn’t have the skill set to properly illustrate before, and they can actually build them, and they can actually push them live. On my…
Be weird, but it is the intention of the question, right? Like, some people might wanna be hugged. Yeah. Some people might want me hug. We definitely wanna ask before you do it. But, but it's the intention behind what…
He described a set of relationships. “Most people that I speak to who have had a great experience at work had it in the context of a team. People that they know, people that they care about, people that care about…
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…
Go, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Tycho, and others talk about discovering creativity through the subconscious. He discovered a practical framework that changes how we approach creative work. If ideas exist as latent…
Yesterday I went to a design leaders happy hour in SF, hosted by Kai Hailey (who led the Sprint Leadership Academy at Google when I first met her in 2018), and Peter Merholz (co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs )…
This past October, we had the opportunity to gather our Design Better Experts in Residence for a conversation at Sequoia Capital. This is an amazing group of people, ranging from Irene Au who helped design the first…
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…
A few months ago, Eli and I drove to Richmond, California, and walked into a building that most people never get to enter. The Eames Archive. How Charles and Ray Eames Worked Inside, we were met by Llisa Demetrios —…
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…
Creativity is a discipline in optimism When Tina Roth Eisenberg moved to New York from Switzerland in 1999, she kept asking herself one question: where are my people? Eighteen years ago she answered it by starting…
We’re excited to be part of Crafted , UserTesting’s conference for people who build products, design experiences, and do research. May 28th: Seattle September 17th: London It’s a hands-on event — workshops, panels, and…
Eric about why speed was never the real problem, why the value a company creates comes from the design of its products, and why the single best way to use AI might be to refuse to let it do your work for you. Listen to…
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…
Paying attention to how the world was moving outside Nike to appreciate multidisciplinary convergence, I was open to alternative ways to learn and garner more experience. After some soul searching, I chose the…
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