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Searching for results.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…
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…
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…
In 2011, I came into Silicon Valley as a bit of an outsider. Up to that point, I’d worked at small companies designing physical products like underwater camera equipment, and then started an underwater photography…
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…
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…
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…
But this is my first time re-reading Endymion, which explores themes that seem very relevant right now. It’s set in the far future, and explores what forms AGI might take, and what happens when technologies have their…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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 )…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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How AI Is F*ing Up the Creative Process — and What We Can Do About It Claude Code and Claude Cowork have become the darlings of the tech world, and the mood across design and research teams right now is something close…
My creative exploration. It features a stacked plot of radio signals from a pulsar star. Boing Boing has the backstory. The idea of data, space, and digital and analog colliding was the starting point for my design. I…
I built a career in design for a simple reason: I love to make things. There is a specific, quiet joy in the intersection of a big idea and meticulous craftsmanship. For a long time, I treated this path as a sort of…
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…
The role of design is being reinvented in real time, and most companies are missing it. At Perplexity , AI isn’t just changing what they design — it’s changing how they think, develop, and collaborate. In this video…
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