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Searching for results.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…
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…
This summer we’re helping you get your portfolio in shape in Portfolio Club . In a recent Substack chat thread, we heard from a lot of folks that they’re stressed out by AI and the job market. People feel behind and…
Weekly Portfolio Club calls this summer helped our paid subscribers build portfolios that land great jobs . Experts joined us weekly to provide feedback, and we compiled lessons from each session into a portfolio design…
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…
That.” She has a name for the pattern. “I call them my personal learning loops.” The biggest one took her out of design entirely, and it taught her where influence comes from. It’s not from a title, but from…
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…
Trading it in for something with more art-school pedigree, he kept it. “I didn’t need to detach from something to get to the next better thing.”
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”…
The tenor saxophonist.”* The absence of a house style wasn’t a failure of management. It was the whole point. Each designer’s background — painter, photographer, sign-maker’s son — shows up directly in the work, because…
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…
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…
They ask: reasonable compared to what? A $10,000 raise feels great until you learn everyone else got $20,000. A $27 bucket of popcorn seems moderate the moment it’s sitting next to the $35 one. Your job as a designer is…
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…
Anthropic dropped Claude Design on Friday April 17 with the same low-key confidence they seem to reserve for every launch: a short news post, a Friday rollout, and a modest caveat that this is a “research preview.”…
Form currently collects name, email, and address. I want to add a phone number field that is optional. The field should validate that the input is a valid phone number if provided, and we should use the same input…
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…
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…
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…
Relates to the fact that for a moment we had all agreed what it meant to design, what the product development lifecycle looked like. We had the double diamond and we had the tooling. Now we have AI, we have all these…
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…
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Problem itself is still forming? That question ran through several of our most provocative conversations this year. One trait kept surfacing in the designers doing the best future-facing work: they’ve learned to be…
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