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Searching for results.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…
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…
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”…
Also perceiving the world through the author’s orchestration (and vision) as she or he tells us where to look and teaches us how to see. Look at the Fish Novelist Robin Sloan ( Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore…
In this issue of The Brief : Zig then Zag: Life is a Nonlinear Journey Things to watch, read, and explore Many of the most interesting people we speak with on Design Better have taken winding paths into their creative…
Check out Allison's book. Tito, it is a great read. There's a lot of wisdom in there, and it's told in a personal voice that makes it a page turner. So great holiday reading. Thanks everyone. Thank you Aaron and Eli…
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…
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 recently had behavioral economist Etinosa Agbonlahor on Design Better, and partway through the interview, we made the mistake of asking her to critique our own membership page live on air. The feedback was a little…
Sketch from Charles or Ray (the Eames Archive intentionally doesn’t disclose the artist) from a trip abroad. Charles’ proposal letter asking Ray to marry him, even though he’s broke. Polaroids from Charles and Ray’s…
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…
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…
The most important figures in American design. Active as an architect, a product and exhibition designer and a writer, he was a leading voice in the discourse on design and architecture over several decades. “The…
Mar 12, 2026 | TIME: am EDT AI is changing how design teams work — faster than most organizations know how to handle. Teams are moving quickly, expectations are rising, and yet something curious is happening as work…
DesignOps used to be the hot new buzzword, but now it needs a rebrand. If you’ve been doing this work for a while, then you know it’s not just about processes and tools — it’s about people. In this episode, design…
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…
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…
For many of the inspiring people we’ve spoken to over the years, from John Cleese, to David Sedaris, to the band OK Go, creativity isn’t something that it is drawn from thin air. Rather, it’s a process of discovery…
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…
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…
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…
Summer with a master in a village learning to make brass lamps. Seeing the discipline, the history, and the community around that craft was mind-blowing. Throughout my professional career, I traveled to 65-plus…
Reframed this as finding “ownable moments”—points where emotion spikes and thoughtful design can make a profound impact. One example occurs when TurboTax asks users whether a loved one has passed away. Instead of…
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…
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