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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

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

Go deeper with Design Better

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, and Academy Award winner for Sinners, on the overlap between design and photography