Archive - Design Better

Animation Handbook

Aug 15 •

The Curiosity Department

Design Engineering Handbook

By Natalya Shelburne, Adekunle Oduye, Kim Williams, Eddie Lou, and Caren Litherland (editor)

Aug 15 •

The Curiosity Department

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Tim Brown: Allbirds co-founder on mission-driven design and entrepreneurship

Episode 143 of the Design Better Podcast

Aug 14 •

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41:27

Collaboration Handbook

By Elijah Woolery and Aarron Walter

Aug 5 •

The Curiosity Department

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Matt Raw: Balancing legacy and innovation at The New York Times

Episode 142 of the Design Better Podcast

Aug 5 •

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43:55

July 2025

The Brief: Microscopes and telescopes

Your monthly dispatch from Design Better.

Jul 30 •

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9:49

Rhiannon Bell: Designing the future of search at Google

Episode 141 of the Design Better Podcast

Jul 23 •

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36:08

Bonus Episode: Inside Sonos's distributed research & design process for the Arc Ultra

We chat with Matt Benatan, Principal Research Scientist, and Naphur van Apeldoorn, Senior Manager, Hardware Development Engineering, about the design…

Jul 17 •

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28:52

Listen to the recording of our AMA with Noah Levin on Figma's latest release

Noah Levin on scaling design teams in the AI era, improving designer–developer collaboration, and what’s next for Figma’s workflow tools.

Jul 16 •

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1:03:18

Design Better Live AMA at The New York Times

Aarron and Eli join Matt Raw, interim head of design, at the Times headquarters for a conversation with their design team

Jul 9 •

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43:48

Video Rewind: Kamasi Washington: A jazz genius on collaborative lessons learned from Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, and more

This is the second installment in our series of video rewind episodes, with an interview featuring jazz legend Kamasi Washington.

Jul 1 •

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1:17:51

June 2025

Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred: Sentient Design and the future of interfaces

Episode 140 of Design Better Podcast

Jun 25 •

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1:00:35

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