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Searching for results.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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Being a parent is like being a psychic who is constantly correct, but always ignored.” – Jim Gaffigan The comedian Jim Gaffigan has a funny bit about being a parent . It’s familiar to many of us who have raised kids…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hey everybody. Aaron Walter here and Eli Woolery. Um, we're here with our a MA guest today. Alison Rand. What's up Alison? Hi, what's up? Good to see you. Yeah. You're at home in Connecticut today, right? Cape Cod. Cape…
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…
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…
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