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Searching for results.“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…
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…
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…
Real portfolios live. His advice was so good I want to pass the best of it along. Make the work the hero Matt’s first principle is the one most of us get wrong. Your work should fill the project page, roughly 80% of it…
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…
Graphic designer Let’s start with who these designers/artists actually were, because none of them set out to make album covers. Reid Miles trained at Chouinard and wanted to be an art director. Tom Hannan studied under…
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…
Turn It Over This week on the show: Aaron Draplin , founder of Draplin Design Co ., on origin stories, junk stores, and the kind of generosity that never makes it into a design portfolio. Listen to the episode Aaron…
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…
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…
Help teams think together. The result is that everyone is accelerating in their own direction, and collaboration is quietly eroding. Jess Holbrook , who leads UX research across Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, and Edge…
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…
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…
Go, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Tycho, and others talk about discovering creativity through the subconscious. He discovered a practical framework that changes how we approach creative work. If ideas exist as latent…
Join us for on Friday, February 27th at a PT for a conversation and AMA with , cartoonist extraordinaire. We’ll chat about his creative process, living a creative life, and what he calls “the slow burn of mastery,” as…
The designer Stefan Sagmeister isn’t known for being subtle. A poster he created in 1999, for an AIGA lecture he delivered in Detroit, was carved with an X-acto blade into his chest and torso . One prominent feature was…
Of the most distinctive voices in American folk music. What you might not know is that he almost didn’t become a musician at all. There’s a version of his life where he’s still a film professor in Miami, drawing in his…
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…
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…
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…
Working alongside his parents in their historic workshop, he carries this legacy forward, infusing it with his own contemporary artistic vision. Courtesy of VAWAA Geetika Agrawal: I work backwards. For the experience to…
Sketch from Charles or Ray (the Eames Archive intentionally doesn’t disclose the artist) from a trip abroad. Charles’ proposal letter asking Ray to marry him, even though he’s broke. Polaroids from Charles and Ray’s…
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…
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…
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