Substacks recommended by Design Better

Recommended by Design Better

Pablo Stanley's posts and comics about work, design, tech, and social anxiety

Forty Fifty is a social health platform specifically geared to women in midlife providing community, preventative health guides, storytelling, and curated content. Find your people, find your answers.

Design Better guest, Alison Rand, has built an amazing community and library of content on social health specifically geared to women in midlife providing community, preventative health guides, storytelling, and curated content.

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What's The Outcome with Josh Seiden

By Joshua Seiden

Currently writing about AI, Product Management, Design, Outcomes, OKRs, and Agile. Also plus thoughts on writing, photography, cooking, and the creative process generally.

Dan Mall Teaches

A weekly newsletter about design systems, process, and leadership. I’ll teach you how to use design to live a better life.

Reconsidering

By The Team

Reconsidering, a podcast about life and how to live it better co-hosted by Bob Baxley, Meredith Black, and Aarron Walter.

A podcast about life and living it better by our pals Bob Baxley, Meredith Black, and our own Aarron Walter.

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Everyday Empires

By Ken Seals

Conversations with everyday founders. Learn how they started and the advice they’d give themselves so you can start a venture of your own

Why Design Is Hard

By Scott Berkun (Why Design Is Hard)

Helping designers reframe their frustrations into solvable problems.

Designing with AI

By Mia Blume

Exploring the intersection of AI and design. Through experimentation, I'll share observations and reflections on emerging tools, inspiring examples of AI in action, and reflections on the future of design as a discipline.

Helpful reviews of AI tools that can expand the creative process and insightful thoughts about how these tools will influence design.

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Outsider Insight

By James Buckhouse

A weekly newsletter on creativity, human ingenuity, and how to build what you want to exist in the world.

Implications, by Scott Belsky

What to expect from the latest advances in tech, shifts in culture, and evolution in the art and science of product design and building teams.

Chance Operations

By Gary Hustwit

An exploration of creativity and design featuring new interviews and short documentaries, plus streaming access to Gary Hustwit's films Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, Workplace, Rams and unreleased footage.

The Midlife Field Guide

By Geoff & Steve

One year. Two Gen X friends. Countless personal experiments. Can they figure out the meaning of midlife? (A project from The Creativity Guild)

Product Teardowns

By Kristen Berman

I take products apart to reveal the psychologies behind them.

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

New York Cartoons

By Jason Chatfield

A free cartoon in your inbox every week + live drawing videos with creative insights, along with hand-drawn stories that prove being a New Yorker cartoonist & comedian in NYC is exactly as unhinged as you'd imagine.

Lenny's Newsletter

By Lenny Rachitsky

Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice—newsletter, podcast, community, and living library