Design Better for Teams
The #1 reason designers quit? They stop growing.
Great L&D doesn’t just retain talent. It builds the kind of team culture where people recruit their friends.
Design Better for Teams gives your design organization weekly access to the world’s most creative thinkers — so your team keeps growing, keeps getting inspired, and keeps choosing to stay.
Designers from these organizations are already reading Design Better.
Your designers are already seeking inspiration elsewhere.
The design community is one of the most intellectually curious in any industry. Your team is already listening to podcasts, reading books, attending conferences — on their own time, on their own dime. Design Better for Teams means your organization is part of that journey instead of incidental to it.
It’s not just a retention play. When a team shares a common vocabulary of ideas — a conversation with David Kelley, an AMA with a Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull — that becomes the substrate for better collaboration, more creative problem-solving, and leadership that actually resonates.
What your team gets
Every Tuesday: A world-class conversation, ad-free.
Your team gets full, uninterrupted access to Design Better’s weekly episodes — deep conversations with designers, executives, scientists, comedians, and artists who all have something urgent to teach about creativity and craft. No ads. No paywalls.
Every Friday: The Roundup Newsletter.
Every week, Design Better surfaces insights from the sharpest minds in design and product. Every Friday, The Roundup synthesizes those conversations into practical knowledge your team can bring to their work on Monday morning — so the ideas don't just stay in someone's earbuds, they make it into your process.
Monthly: Live access to industry leaders your team can actually talk to.
Our Ask Me Anything sessions are the thing our members cite most. Once a month, your team can put questions directly to former guests and industry experts — not just watch them on stage, but have a real conversation. Recordings of every AMA are included for anyone who can’t make it live.
Always: A curated library built for design practitioners.
Access to our full archive of 375+ episodes, our book recommendations, and The Brief — our weekly newsletter that distills the sharpest insights, quotes, and creative processes from each show. Built for practitioners who want signal, not noise.
Workshops: Early access, discounted rates.
Teams get priority registration and exclusive discounts on Design Better workshops — including our popular AI + Design Thinking intensive and others developed with leading practitioners.
Optional: Aarron and Eli, live with your team.
A select number of teams each year can add a keynote talk or post-AMA lunch and learn directly with Design Better co-hosts Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery. This is not a feature you’ll find anywhere else. Limited availability.
Who they’ll learn from
Design Better doesn’t just talk to designers. We talk to the most creative people in the world — across disciplines, industries, and perspectives — because the best design thinking rarely starts inside a design team.
Topics your team will explore
Nine years of conversations across design, creativity, leadership, and craft.
Typography & visual craft: Jonathan Hoefler (Hoefler & Co), Ellen Lupton
Design history & theory: Paola Antonelli (MoMA), Llisa Demetrios (granddaughter of Charles and Ray Eames), Paula Scher (Pentagram)
Creative collaboration: Ed Catmull (Pixar), OK Go, John Cleese (Monty Python)
Design leadership: Irene Au (Google, Yahoo), Kate Aronowitz (Meta, LinkedIn, eBay)
Storytelling & narrative: David Sedaris (humorist), Georg Petschnigg (New York Times)
Product design & prototyping: Tony Fadell (iPhone, iPod), Matt D Smith (Shift Nudge)
Design systems & DesignOps: Eileen Fisher (fashion designer), Brad Frost (Atomic Design), Dan Mall (design systems), Meredith Black (Figma)
AI & creativity: John Maeda (Microsoft), Matt Mullenweg (Automattic)
Design thinking: David Kelley (IDEO, Stanford d.school)
And much more…
375+ episodes across 9 years of publishing
Every week, a new expert. Every month, a live conversation with one of them. It’s an ongoing masterclass your team will actually look forward to.
Ready to bring Design Better to your team?
Whether you’re ready to get started or just want to see if it’s a fit, we’d love to talk.
Talk to Aarron or Eli directly. We’ll learn about your team’s goals and walk you through what a Design Better for Teams subscription looks like in practice.
Already a Design Better subscriber?
You’re already part of the community. Now bring your team along. Existing paid subscribers get a credit toward a team plan — because we know you’re often the person best positioned to champion this internally. Email us at teams@designbetterpodcast.com and mention your personal subscription.
Plus: Bring Design Better to your team directly
Each year, a limited number of organizations can book Aarron Walter or Eli Woolery for a dedicated team event:
Post-AMA lunch and learn. A 60-to-90-minute session where your team gets Aarron or Eli all to themselves — extending the conversation from a recent AMA episode into your specific product, design, or leadership challenges.
Keynote talk with Q&A. A custom hour-long presentation tailored to your team’s context, followed by an open Q&A. Aarron has delivered this format to design teams at over 100 companies and conferences worldwide. Eli Woolery teaches product design at Stanford University.
These engagements are only available to Design Better for Teams subscribers. Availability is limited. Inquire when you book your intro call.
Learn more about Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter
Design teams at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon, The New York Times, Figma, Dropbox, Instacart, SAP, IBM, and Deloitte are already among our 200,000+ subscribers. Organizations like Faire, Dropbox, and Instacart have brought Design Better to their whole team.
“Design Better helps me gain a better perspective and keep up with the design industry”
—Laurel Beyers, Director of Product Design for XAM and AI
“You guys are the best! You are dedicated to bring on incredible guests, drop fresh knowledge, share hot takes, and still be curious across a wide range of topics including design, tech, business, and culture. Thank you!”
—Kevin Flores, Director of Product Design at LinkedIn
“Thank you for continuing to invest in the growth of the design community and of course always bringing great content!“
— Aaron Irizarry, Head of Design Retail Lending PNC Bank
“I consistently fin value in the conversations you're having , the AMAs and the resources you make available. The round ups are phenomenal, the guidance for a design-adjacent professional looking to move more and more into the design field is extremely helpful.”
—Tom Weatherburn, Project Manager, City of Toronto