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Searching for results.Catt Small is a Staff Product Designer at Dropbox, the author of The Staff Designer: Grow, Influence, and Lead as an Individual Contributor (Rosenfeld Media, December 2025), and the host of the Catt’s Corner podcast…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 )…
Points or burndown charts, even development velocity charts — let alone, God forbid, design integrity — good luck, right? Because they’re stack ranking by ROI. And you’re in there being like, let me explain to you why…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
But this is my first time re-reading Endymion, which explores themes that seem very relevant right now. It’s set in the far future, and explores what forms AGI might take, and what happens when technologies have their…
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…
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