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Searching for results.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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Books that made us reexamine the creative process in 2025 Every year, a handful of books stick with us long after the last page—shaping how we think about creativity, culture, technology, and the work we choose to…
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…
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 —…
In a vacuum. When partnering at parity with other disciplines at the problem-solving table, then we’ll have something. We’ll have a shot to use our collective creativity, diversity, and nonlinear approaches to shake…
They all do the same thing, even the little ones, the little owls and the big owls, they all act the same…they do owl things, you know? If we can get back into our bodies, and embrace the capabilities that make us all…
Design Better is brought to you by Wix Studio , the most powerful web design platform for entrepreneurs, agencies, and creative thinkers. Learn more → Art, Story, Design, & Film. By James Buckhouse , Design Better…
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…
I built a career in design for a simple reason: I love to make things. There is a specific, quiet joy in the intersection of a big idea and meticulous craftsmanship. For a long time, I treated this path as a sort of…
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…
Problem itself is still forming? That question ran through several of our most provocative conversations this year. One trait kept surfacing in the designers doing the best future-facing work: they’ve learned to be…
Working alongside his parents in their historic workshop, he carries this legacy forward, infusing it with his own contemporary artistic vision. Courtesy of VAWAA Geetika Agrawal: I work backwards. For the experience to…
As designers, many of us got into the profession because we had other creative passions. Perhaps we grew up drawing, or painting, or were into music or performing arts. Then the daunting reality of making a living set…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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