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Searching for results.It's too easy, the older you get, to do something you already know how to do, and it's very hard to make mistakes. But mistakes are where you learn everything, from the beginning of your career to the end. I'm Aaron…
About that tension? It is also very much about the practitioner. You know, it's hard to imagine... Stefan Sagmeister doing work that isn't reflective of his own voice, that doesn't have a sense of it being something by…
Hey folks, Design Better has been on the road recently recording a live episode in Manhattan for design search firm Wharton Co.' 's 30th anniversary. Guests for the episode included Paolo Antonelli, Senior Curator in…
The term design is very slippery. It's a little bit like art, right? You know, you can't really give a definition. I always think that it's a coming together of goals and means, right? You have a goal and the goal can…
To the sort of essence of a gesture, whether it's a formal gesture or a substantive gesture. I think a lot of my actual stuff is real minimalist, super pared down. I'm always trying to think of ways to get rid of the…
To learning that currently is lighting your fire? I'm usually reading two or three books at a time. So bear with me because I'm going to give you one of them right now, I think it's probably one of the most important…
At the end of the day I believe design is how you get more people to believe that what they're doing can change the outcomes of what they actually want to see in the world. Design is a tool for imagination and imagining…
Just get to work. Because you have to warm those muscles up. You wouldn't ask an athlete to, okay, now just go out on the field and do that thing. It's so magical. But you have to warm up. So just get to work. My friend…
Phrase “User Experience” in a job title was Don Norman’s role a a User Experience Architect at Apple in the mid-90s. Browsers like Netscape Navigator, and then the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, opened up a new…
Near Disney's carefully spaced trash cans .154): in Orlando, .214): and to the bowl of fresh fruit that always sat in Milton Glaser's studio. .815): This is Design Better, .676): where we explore creativity at the…
I hope that you'll check this out because I think it's going to help you do your work better. You can save 30% on a monthly subscription at brain.fm slash design better. That's brain.fm slash design better. Check it…
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…
Sometimes when people jump into high fidelity too quickly, the forms that they generate become too predictable and actually lack a certain kind of vitality and magic because they're not tailored to the fundamental…
Substack is like oh hey we're live all right hey everybody Aaron Walter we're back Eli is here again and we have Brooke with us Brooke Hopper folks who are listening to the show regularly will remember Brooke was on the…
To help them do their best work and reduce stress and anxiety? Well, really allowing them, I mean, I don't dictate, you know, I bring in things and en
Issues, inclusion issues, gender conversations, it has to be more transparent because it's better for business. If you have a happier group of people understand exactly why they are, where they are and why they're…
An avid fiction reader, but I would say I'm revisiting a lot of works with Bernay brown and Priya Parker. The art of gathering don't know if you've ever read it highly recommended. I have the book at my house I've yet…
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…
Any time someone come to them to say, Hey, here's more work to do. Any normal person would resist that. And a lot of design work tends to be here's more work to do. It's rare for a designer to go to an engineer and say…
At Pentagram. And I think for a lot of us, Pentagram is more well-known for brand design and graphic design than industrial design. So what attracted you to that company? That's absolutely right, and that's an important…
It may sound counterintuitive, but the key for me to get over burnout was to do something completely different. I think that picking up another creative task, learning something new, is really the key to burnout. For…
Found is that if we can sort of establish, let's say, a weekly cadence of doing reviews with key stakeholders, then we're getting frequent feedback on the work. And they're getting their own sort of conviction and views…
The iPad when I started to building a full fledged, essentially pro version of Photoshop specifically for drawing and painting called Adobe Fresco. you know, that people do full on illustration work and they, they…
Stripping away the noise to serve the core idea is something we can all learn from. This is Design Better, where we explore creativity at the intersection of design and technology. I'm Eli Willard. And I'm Aaron Walter…
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