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Searching for results.This week on the show, Aarron and Eli talked with Jessie McGuire , managing partner of Thought Matter , the New York studio whose decade of civic, neighborhood, and cultural work just earned the 2026 National Design…
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…
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…
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…
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…
That.” She has a name for the pattern. “I call them my personal learning loops.” The biggest one took her out of design entirely, and it taught her where influence comes from. It’s not from a title, but from…
Clear. She took a year-long sabbatical from her career not just to travel, but to actively build that vision into a reality. That year spent living in 12 different countries allowed her to move from being a student of…
A field guide to AI prompting This week, we’re sharing a chapter from Think. Prompt. Create , a book written by Joey Primiani’s , a member of the Design Better community. Most of the anxiety we hear about AI isn’t…
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…
Illustration by Luis Mendo A few months ago, I was on a flight to San Diego, to visit my parents. It was my dad’s birthday in a few days, and mine shortly after. He was in hospice, so I knew it was probably the last…
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…
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…
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…
A few years ago, before the term “vibe coding” was coined by Andrej Karpathy, I created a “Design Better Radio” using ChatGPT to make a simple CSS/JavaScript/HTML app. 1 The idea was to make a little web-based player…
My creative exploration. It features a stacked plot of radio signals from a pulsar star. Boing Boing has the backstory. The idea of data, space, and digital and analog colliding was the starting point for my design. I…
She ran a live, in-the-room data visualization: stand up if you’ve ever made a friend at a Creative Mornings event. Out of 475, about 450 stood up. That’s the whole business model. Not attendance — belonging. It tracks…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We talk about “good design” as if it’s a single discipline with a single playbook. As if the same instincts that help you redesign a fintech onboarding flow apply equally to redesigning one of the most-used apps on the…
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…
We recently had behavioral economist Etinosa Agbonlahor on Design Better, and partway through the interview, we made the mistake of asking her to critique our own membership page live on air. The feedback was a little…
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