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Rewind: Jonathan Hoefler: Typography legend on type history, philosophy, and entrepreneurship

The Brief: What designers can learn from filmmakers

Alastair Simpson: From professional soccer to leading design at Dropbox

AMA: Redesigning cancer care

Bonus Episode: Jason Giles, VP of Product Design at UserTesting, live in Austin

Preview our latest book: Principles of Product Design

The Brief: What designers can learn from musicians

Bishop Briggs: Award winning singer-songwriter on creative transformation after loss

Design Better Premium discount extended—25% off annual subscription

A rare discount on a year of Design Better Premium—Now 25% off

Principles of Product Design

Design Better 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Design Disruptors: A documentary

MasterClass

In Memoriam: Enrique Allen — Designer, Entrepreneur, and Father

Live at Savannah College of Art and Design, with Kate Aronowitz, Steve Johnson, Kat Holmes and Jaime Lopez

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

Bonus Episode: Gali Erez, head of Wix Studio

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

AMA: Doug Powell on how designers become leaders

Adam Moss: The Work of Art

AI

How to expense Design Better Premium and Workshops

Wix Studio

Wine Access

The Brief: All your work will soon disappear

Andrew Evans: Design & magic 🪄

AI + Design Thinking Immersive Workshop

Diane Hoskins and Andy Cohen: Design for a Radically Changing World

November AI+ Design Thinking Workshop, Austin Happy Hour, and more

In the Making, a podcast for and about the creator economy.

Jason Chatfield: New Yorker cartoonist on his creative process

Matthias Hollwich: AI & Architecture

Skye Waterson: Creative work and ADHD

The Brief: Design thinking in the age of AI

Enrique Allen: Design and entrepreneurship at Designer Fund

Yashar Kassai: Artwork and production design for Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse, TMNT, and more

AMA: James Buckhouse, Story-driven design

Brendan Boyle: Toy design, play, and the creative process

The learning opportunities you may be missing

Shirley Kurata and Mimi Haddon: Palace Costume and costume design for "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

Incogni

On Set With

Rewind: Vicki Tan: Learning from new voices

AMA: Vanessa Cho, Google Ventures Design Partner: How creative teams collaborate

The Brief: Creativity multipliers and how nature informs design

Connor Moore: Sound design for Tesla, Uber, Peloton and more

Matt Abrahams: Think Faster, Talk Smarter

A ✨magical✨ panel discussion at The Magic Patio in San Francisco

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Quilt + Mike & Maaike: Designing for sustainability

Scholarship tickets for upcoming SF workshop

Rewind: Julie Zhuo: Facebook's former VP of Product Design on what she got right and wrong as a leader

"Interviewing Users" book giveaway, upcoming AMAs, free Frostapalooza 🎸 tix, and more...

Roger Horrocks: My Octopus Teacher's cinematographer on shaping story and cultivating patience

Workshop Testimonials

Steve Portigal: The art of interviewing users

The Brief: Where design breaks as startups scale

August workshops, book giveaway, and more

Design Thinking Handbook

Dan Mall: Scaling design systems

AMA: Leslie Witt, Headspace and designing for mental health

Rewind: Sara Seager: Astrophysicist pushing the boundaries of collaboration while discovering exoplanets

Early Access: In-person AI + Design Thinking workshop & Design Better happy hour, SF, August 6th

Design Better for Teams

Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley: Assembling Tomorrow

Babbel

Celene Aubry: 100+ years of designing for legendary musicians at Hatch Show Print

Bluehost

HelloFresh

Hillary Coe: Emmy Award-winning designer, certified commercial pilot, astronaut candidate, and drag-racing record holder on designing for SpaceX and Vast

Design Thinking + AI Workshop: June 18th and July 2nd

AMA: Christopher Nguyen, The UX Playbook

The Brief: Why taste is your most important design tool

Bonus: Adobe Design Talks on AI and the Creative Process

Ben Clymer: Hodinkee founder on watch design and creating a compelling content brand

Greenlight

Natsai Audrey Chieza: Designing with biology

Pablo Stanley: A creative force of nature on the importance of persistence and hustle

AMA: Brad Frost, AI and design systems

Design Thinking + AI Workshop

Tasha Golden: Avoiding burnout while pursuing creativity with passion

Jonathan Adler: Famed potter and designer on bringing creativity into all aspects of life

Design Better Live with Hillary Coe

Making Design Better—better—with weekly episodes, an enhanced newsletter, and more

Premium

AMA: Greg Hoffman on Emotion by Design, Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike.

The Webby race is *very* tight—we need your help

Vote for Design Better to win a Webby

Design Better is nominated for a Webby!

BetterHelp

Brian Tyler, composer for Yellowstone, Crazy Rich Asians, Mario Brothers, and more, on his creative process

Bonus: Eric Snowden, Head of Adobe Design, on AI + Design

Kate Aronowitz: Shaping the story of design in business

AMA: Rachel Gogel, Creative leadership and going solo

Ellen Lupton: Thinking With Type

Design History

Last chance to win a MacBook Air with M2 chip

Jonathan Hoefler: Typography legend on type history, philosophy, and entrepreneurship

CrashPlan

Bonus: Hamish Smyth of Standards

Design Better Newsletter #6

Bonus: Hiroki Asai, Global Head of Marketing at Airbnb

AMA: Josh Clark on AI and design systems

Vanessa Gennarelli: Surviving Change at Work

Win a MacBook Air with M2 chip

Scott Rice: Creative lessons learned teaching film with Matthew McConaughey

AMA: Jeff Gothelf

Autumn Durald Arkapaw: Cinematographer for Wakanda Forever and Loki on the overlap between design and photography