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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…
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…
Is available for Design Better premium members. Link and code after the paywall below at the bottom of this post. Constraints are the job Jeff’s never been drawn to concept cars. To him they’re “gratuitous” — beautiful…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Out wide and flat lenses. You’ll start to notice f-stops and depth of field. You’ll start to see the choices made that everyone else just feels. You’ll be able to notice the choices that make all the difference. This is…
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…
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…
The Design Better summer reading list As you head out on holiday this summer, it’s always nice to have a couple good reads tucked in a bag to pass the time. Our reading list this summer has nothing that would pass as…
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…
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…
Before we get to The Roundu p, we wanted to share some of the exciting guests we have in queue, including: Fiona Crombie, Academy Award-nominated production designer for the film Hamnet. Sam Beam, Grammy Award-nominated…
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…
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…
Cooper Union during Constitution Week in September 2017. First Amendment , Milton Glaser, 2017 No institution owned that project. It lived because a community decided it mattered enough to show up. What “shareholders”…
What Portfolio Club taught us about designing a great portfolio Of everything you’ll ever design, your portfolio is the hardest to see clearly: you’re too close to judge it the way a stranger would. It’s also easy to…
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 )…
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…
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…
Builds (and vice versa). Andrew Evans — A designer-turned-magician, on the real-time trust that forms between a performer and a room full of strangers who’ve agreed to believe. Why keep it small? Because forty people…
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…
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