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Mark Wilson: Fast Company's Global Design Editor on design's defining moments in 2025
Video Rewind: Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster
Forget About “Radical Candor” – Try Radical Humanity Instead with Alison Rand
Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett: Designing business tools that support how creatives actually work
The Brief: The nonlinear journey of a nuclear engineer turned Nike designer
Phil Gilbert: How to transform a 114-year-old company's design culture
What history teaches us about the struggle between humans and machines
What Most Companies Get Wrong About Designing in the Age of AI
Cecilia Brenner: Mobilizing designers to tackle sustainable development goals
AMA: Alison Rand on DesignOps and healthier teams
Ben Swire: Author of "Safe Danger" on the hidden reason team building efforts fail
3 Rules That Make Moonshots Possible (& Why Most Fail)
The Design Better Toolkit has been upgraded: new tools and creative fuel
Jeremy Faludi: Sustainability professor on why most sustainable design fails before it starts
Alison Rand: Leading with radical humanity instead of radical candor
The Brief: How our recent past should prepare us for the age of AI
Introducing a new video version of the Design Better Podcast
Wert&Co. at 30: Reflections on Design, Leadership, and the Future
Announcing Design Better’s New Experts in Residence
Rewind: Paola Antonelli: How design shapes culture
Keith Sawyer: Become more creative by learning to see
Astro Teller & Ivo Stivoric: Why moonshots require unlearning everything you know
Henry Modisett: Perplexity’s VP of Design on embracing ambiguity and leading with curiosity
The Brief: Vibe coding back when it was cool 🤓
Elizabeth Lin: Rethinking design education in the age of AI
Announcing the Design Better Toolkit
AMA: Ryan Rumsey teaches business literacy for designers
Nick Foster: Could, Should, Might, Don't—a new way to think about designing for the future
Tim Brown: Allbirds co-founder on mission-driven design and entrepreneurship
Matt Raw: Balancing legacy and innovation at The New York Times
The Brief: Microscopes and telescopes
Rhiannon Bell: Designing the future of search at Google
Bonus Episode: Inside Sonos's distributed research & design process for the Arc Ultra
Listen to the recording of our AMA with Noah Levin on Figma's latest release
Design Better Live AMA at The New York Times
Collaboration Handbook Audio and Video Clips
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred: Sentient Design and the future of interfaces
The book that inspired designers to create products people love
AMA: Brad Frost on Design Systems
The Brief: The hard truths designers need to hear
Get our latest book: Design Leadership Handbook
AMA: Noah Levin on Figma's latest release
The Brief: Stop specializing—live a multidisciplinary creative life
Download the full Design Better library
The books all designers need to succeed
Bonus Episode: Champ Bennett, co-founder of Capsule, on making motion design easy and scalable
Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster
The Brief: Brad Frost on the magic of design tokens
The Roundup: AI creative workflow, vibe coding, ethics, agents, and more
AMA: Grace Ling on building a design career and a community
Video Rewind: John Cleese: A cheerful guide to creativity
Marco Suarez: From designer to coffee entrepreneur ☕
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross: Your Brain on Art
Craft exceptional customer experiences with UserTesting
Rewind: OK Go: Making the impossible possible
Your Real Competitor Isn’t Another Brand—It’s This.
Introducing Design Better's Experts in Residence Program
Brad Frost: Design systems are about human relationships
New Storytelling + Design workshop, book giveaway, and more
Heidi Trost: Human Centered Security
AMA: Vicki Tan on better decision making
The Brief: Afraid of losing your job? Become irreplaceable
Trenton Doyle Hancock: An artist’s process for creating order from chaos
Dan Harden: Form follows emotion—industrial design lessons from George Nelson to Steve Jobs
Kristen Berman: Behavioral economics expert on designing products that change behavior
The Brief: What designers can learn from writers and storytellers
Free AMA: Kevin Bethune on nonlinear thinking
Gareth Hinds: A golden age for the graphic novel
From your inbox to your ears: Audio versions of The Brief
Kevin Bethune: Nonlinear—Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction
Introducing the Design Better Directory
Scott Belsky: Adobe's Chief Strategist on navigating the creative Cambrian Explosion
Idris Brewster: Bringing history to life with augmented reality
Jake Knapp: Click—How to make what people want
The Brief: What do many creative people have in common? ADHD.
Jenny Blackburn: Google's VP of UX for Gemini on how generative AI can improve our workflows
AMA: Scott Berkun on why design is hard
Recording: Designer Fundraiser for LA Fires
Scott Berkun: Why Design is Hard