Archive - Design Better

The Roundup: Aaron Draplin on building a personal brand

How to find ideas and inspiration where no one else is looking.

Jul 10 • Aarron Walter

Rewind: Aarron Draplin: DDC founder on showing up, staying prolific, and never forgetting the crappy jobs

Jul 8 • Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter

49:34

The Roundup: Design history in jazz records

How great music inspired great design.

Jul 3 • Aarron Walter

Chris Entwisle and Mark Havens: authors of WAIL on the constraints that led to timeless designs for Prestige Records

Episode 183 of the Design Better Podcast

Jul 1 • Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

41:39

June 2026

The Roundup: Summer reading list

Relaxing reads that will get your wheels turning.

Jun 26 • Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

Portfolio Club with Jared Erondu

A recording from Aarron Walter's live video

Jun 25 • Aarron Walter, Eli Woolery, and Jared

59:15

Niyati Gupta: Netflix Product Design Lead on what happens when a designer becomes a product manager, and why your influence might not be in…

Episode 182 of the Design Better Podcast

Jun 24 • Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

41:07

Portfolio Club with Brooke Hopper

A recording from Aarron Walter's live video

Jun 24 • Aarron Walter, Eli Woolery, and Brooke Hopper

1:02:57

The Roundup: The Cambrian Filter

Three things we learned about which tools — and ways of working — will survive

Jun 19 • Eli Woolery

Mike Schnaidt: Fast Company Creative Director on typography, creative endurance, and designing for the long haul

Episode 181 of the Design Better Podcast

Jun 17 • Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

34:50

The Roundup: What the founder of Creative Mornings learned about creativity

Creative Mornings founder Tina Roth Eisenberg on measuring "return on friendship," why side projects increase your surface area for luck, and the case…

Jun 12 • Aarron Walter

Bonus Episode: Dorrian Porter returns with the Vestaboard Note

A special sponsored episode of the Design Better Podcast

Jun 11 • Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

39:02

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