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Searching for results.I make groovy stuff that I hope people's ears will fight over in the future. That is my goal as a designer. And in order to do that, I really feel like it's very important to have a very broad understanding of design…
I think the art market is constraining. I think that if you are a successful artist, you end up having to really zero in on a style, and your currency is dictated by how clear and identifiable your style is. So in a…
This is an audio version of The Brief, the Design Better newsletter that takes you deeper into the insights we've uncovered through hundreds of interviews with creative thinkers. I'm Aaron Walter. ADHD and the creative…
But we read her book and it was very interesting. And it turns out that her work is very cross-disciplinary, working across different fields. And I think we can actually learn from that, like learning from, Eli Woole
So this organic intelligence versus academic intelligence, think, you know, and I'm not like, I'm not fighting against academia. I'm just saying that I believe that so much of what we have, if we really look and…
Time and a half if not double time they get to take their test in a special room They get so many advantages that, you know, it's kind of silly not to go do it. And there's no check and balance. It's the Likert scale…
Really good compass. But over and over and over again, 20-somethings, 40-somethings, 60-somethings, I say, I can help you. What are you looking for? And they say, I don't know. And I say, that
But if you add this to what I'm doing, this third thing, I can't handle it anymore. And so for a lot of people, COVID was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back, essentially. And they were just like, I need help…
That's the advice I give people is don't rely on willpower. Don't rely on daily decision-making to do your to-do list. It's set up your environment in your life so that it's easy to do the things you want to do. Many of…
Noon period, no way I wouldn't let anybody in my family do that either because the numbers on the performance in hospitals outside of the morning hours are terrifying. So the mistake that you can make is to say, let's…
Design can play a critical role in transforming R&D technology into products. R&D often is driven by the curiosity, and it's a beautiful thing. Sometimes we forget this, but these scientists, these engineers, are driven…
It's visual and it's words and it's texture and it's vibes and it's all of that. Paul Ford likes to call himself a fun Cassandra, someone who, like the priestess in Greek mythology, sees trouble coming, but unlike her…
The feminine coexisting. It's about a minimum and a maximum. I mean, it gets really deep into Buddhist principles and things like that. But I think that if we study what we naturally find beautiful, that can point us
We've been optimizing for productivity and efficiency and, you know, work, work, work, work, work, do, do, Ivy
These habit, forming products. So that through successive cycles, through trigger action reward investment, this is how our preferences are shaped, how our tastes are formed and how these habits take hold. Strangely…
In many ways, they bring that design thinking to the way they live. It occurred to me, hearing you talk about this, you might be your greatest product design. Do you think of like designing your life as a product design…
A few years ago, Ian Bogos wrote a piece for The Atlantic that exploded in popularity. It was about electric vehicles and how it would finally kill manual transmissions. The reaction told him that people weren't…
Of the ground that you can. And really importantly, not paying attention to, is this good or bad? Maybe there's not even any good or bad at this point. It's just stuff. It's just ideas. And then the last stage is…
On the team said, hold on, what if we tried these lasers on the ground? And there's a whole bunch of physical reasons to believe that they won't work on the ground. It's too much to mess them up on the ground. That was…
The role of the designer has shifted from stylist to coordinator. And I think the same general point could be made about some of the most progressive companies in the world that consider themselves to be design-led…
Harder is easier principle through stories from Patagonia and a long-term stock exchange that he built as a design challenge and why the value a company makes comes from the design of its products. And because we…
To venture outside of their comfort zone. They could spend all of their time here in this tool that they know and are comfortable in. And collaboration is relegated to a toggle switch called dev mode. And what we see is…
Understand what's going on, but really see everything through the lens of the customer's eyes and figure out, OK, what's going on in the macro that can help me solve this customer problem as oppos
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