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Searching for results.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…
And reference in decisions. Gain confidence creating visual assets — Build simple, effective visuals that bring emotion to your work and make insights easier to understand and harder to ignore — without needing a…
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…
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…
Down to like an hour and 15 minutes. But everyone, and then, then people started working together and leveraging each other's work. Yes. And it was like the fastest way to move things along. Yeah. But the pain of design…
More than 1 billion people are watching podcasts on YouTube every month . We suspect you’re probably doing the same. So we’re now creating video versions of all new episodes of Design Better. Our recent episode with…
As 2025 draws to a close, there is a collective feeling of having just stepped off a particularly aggressive centrifuge. We often talk about the “pace of change” in design, but this year, our guest Mark Wilson—Global…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Every breakthrough starts the same way: with a problem no one quite knows how to solve yet. For Astro Teller and Ivo Stivoric of Google’s X The Moonshot Factory , the work begins with designing questions, not solutions…
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…
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Readable? More secure? Be specific. Too many things at once : “Add user authentication, redesign the homepage, fix the search bug, and add PDF export.” Pick one thing. Doing too many things in a single prompt produces…
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…
In this issue of The Brief : Observations on designing a personal portfolio Things to watch, read, and explore Job openings Join Portfolio Club Wednesdays 10AM PT/1PM ET Join us every Wednesday through the end of July…
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…
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…
Points or burndown charts, even development velocity charts — let alone, God forbid, design integrity — good luck, right? Because they’re stack ranking by ROI. And you’re in there being like, let me explain to you why…
Researchers are prototyping. Designers are shipping code. PMs are building working demos. Every role on a product team is absorbing skills that used to belong to the role next door, and AI is doing most of the folding…
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 )…
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…
Hi folks! Bobby Hughes and I have created a new workshop offering, aimed at Design Researchers (but also useful if you are a more generalist designer who would like to increase your influence on your team and…
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