Design Better

Video Rewind: Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster

Aaron Draplin: Field Notes co-founder on what skate culture taught him about design

Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett: Designing business tools that support how creatives actually work

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Phil Gilbert: Making a 114-year-old, 400,000 person company care about design

Cecilia Brenner: Moving beyond design theater to measurable impact

Video Rewind: Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir

Ben Swire: Author of "Safe Danger" on the hidden reason team building efforts fail

Jeremy Faludi: Sustainability professor on why most sustainable design fails before it starts

Alison Rand: Leading with radical humanity instead of radical candor

The Brief: How our recent past should prepare us for the age of AI

Fitz and the Tantrums: Finding your creative voice in your 40's and why success feels different than you think

Bonus Episode: 30 years of design with Wert&Co, live in NYC featuring Paola Antonelli, Mark Wilson,Kate Aronowitz, Mike Davidson, and Meaghan Choi

Design has evolved from a niche, often exclusionary discipline into a pervasive, invisible force that shapes modern culture, commerce, and human behavior. Over the past three decades, the profession has transitioned from rigid specialization toward a model of "extreme generalization," where designers must increasingly ...

Rewind: Paola Antonelli: How design shapes culture

Keith Sawyer: Become more creative by learning to see

Jae Park: Designing a new generation of vehicles at Ford, and why friction matters in the creative process

Astro Teller & Ivo Stivoric: Why moonshots require unlearning everything you know

Henry Modisett: Perplexity’s VP of Design on embracing ambiguity and leading with curiosity

Elizabeth Lin: Rethinking design education in the age of AI

Nick Foster: Could, Should, Might, Don't—a new way to think about designing for the future