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Searching for results.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…
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…
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…
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…
By the manual. The difference isn’t mechanical. It’s philosophical. When you truly know something, you stop working on it and start working with it. He calls this “gumption”, the psychic fuel that keeps a craftsperson…
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…
Where the thing actually has to work — really work, for real users, with real data — the pace drops back down to earth. Paul has been living this dynamic inside Aboard: “The coding is really fast, but the thinking is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
And used every day. They recognized that an artisan leaves a bit of themselves in their work—a true gift that can be enjoyed for many years. In the present day, we can see parallels. A quest for higher crop yields and…
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…
It’s difficult to escape the fact that we live in a very turbulent time. Apart from the warp-speed pace of technological change, wars and world events are keeping many of us on edge. It’s tempting to think that we are…
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…
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…
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”…
For selling their products. We're building a global infrastructure for them to share their knowledge . We guide them on pricing looking at the global market and to how to factor in their time, materials, and studio…
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…
Readable? More secure? Be specific. Too many things at once : “Add user authentication, redesign the homepage, fix the search bug, and add PDF export.” Pick one thing. Doing too many things in a single prompt produces…
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…
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…
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…
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