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Searching for results.It’s easy to feel like a victim of workplace dysfunctionality. But nobody likes a victim. Even CEOs don’t have complete agency over the workplace. Companies operate on social contracts that may be guided by executives…
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…
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…
Join us for on Friday, February 27th at a PT for a conversation and AMA with , cartoonist extraordinaire. We’ll chat about his creative process, living a creative life, and what he calls “the slow burn of mastery,” as…
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…
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…
Challenge how you think about your craft and the coalitions behind it. Only a handful of tickets remain. $100 off the event for those who book their own accommodation . Use code DBFRIENDS at this link: Reserve your spot…
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…
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…
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…
Works until PM. She’s world-renowned—she designed costumes for Cirque du Soleil—but she’s not getting awards every day. She just shows up in her studio consistently. You take away that wisdom of how to live—how to stay…
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…
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…
Might be an interesting subject for a painting, examine your own noticing. Moments of Noticing: Story Non-fiction writer and literary critic (and Harvard prof) James Wood posits that noticing is also at work for…
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…
More than 1 billion people are watching podcasts on YouTube every month . We suspect you’re probably doing the same. So we’re now creating video versions of all new episodes of Design Better. Our recent episode with…
Normally, I don’t write The Roundup while sitting in the middle of the Big Sur River, on one of the Adirondack chairs that The River Inn places on its property. But this week is different. My father passed away after a…
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…
Turn It Over This week on the show: Aaron Draplin , founder of Draplin Design Co ., on origin stories, junk stores, and the kind of generosity that never makes it into a design portfolio. Listen to the episode Aaron…
For many of the inspiring people we’ve spoken to over the years, from John Cleese, to David Sedaris, to the band OK Go, creativity isn’t something that it is drawn from thin air. Rather, it’s a process of discovery…
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…
Cooper Union during Constitution Week in September 2017. First Amendment , Milton Glaser, 2017 No institution owned that project. It lived because a community decided it mattered enough to show up. What “shareholders”…
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…
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…
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