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Searching for results.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…
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…
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…
Engine, where I encountered professional design being practiced for the first time in my career. Design was also nested in close collaboration with engineering, product management, and business. I knew it was the right…
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…
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…
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…
Years ago, two friends in Philadelphia went looking for a parking lot. They’d been staring at the same six words on the back of their favorite jazz records for years — recorded by Van Gelder in Hackensack , and one…
Fully built and shipped. We dream, then build. We become “Creative Directors” and dream up new styles, directions, vibes, juxtapositions, complications, affordances, influences, and possibilities to drive culture…
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…
We’ve been to a lot of conferences over the years. You know the format: a speaker on a stage, a sea of seats, a hallway where the real conversations happen if you’re lucky enough to catch someone before they’re whisked…
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…
Yesterday I went to a design leaders happy hour in SF, hosted by Kai Hailey (who led the Sprint Leadership Academy at Google when I first met her in 2018), and Peter Merholz (co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs )…
Time something is proven, it’s no longer the future. It’s already the system. We don’t have to wait to be the organizations willing to invest that way. We can choose to be them right now. Jessie McGuire is the managing…
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…
In 2011, I came into Silicon Valley as a bit of an outsider. Up to that point, I’d worked at small companies designing physical products like underwater camera equipment, and then started an underwater photography…
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Three ways of working keep surfacing, like body plans that might actually survive the filter. AI x Influence Workshop Bobby Hughes and I have a few spaces left in our upcoming AI x Influence for Design Researchers…
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…
Creativity is a discipline in optimism When Tina Roth Eisenberg moved to New York from Switzerland in 1999, she kept asking herself one question: where are my people? Eighteen years ago she answered it by starting…
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…
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…
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…
Hey, If you lead a design team, you’ve probably felt this: your designers are talented, curious, driven, and quietly starving for growth. The day-to-day leaves little room for the kind of learning that actually builds…
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