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The Roundup: Aaron Draplin on building a personal brand

Rewind: Aarron Draplin: DDC founder on showing up, staying prolific, and never forgetting the crappy jobs

The Roundup: Design history in jazz records

Chris Entwisle and Mark Havens: authors of WAIL on the constraints that led to timeless designs for Prestige Records

The Roundup: Summer reading list

Portfolio Club with Jared Erondu

Niyati Gupta: Netflix Product Design Lead on what happens when a designer becomes a product manager, and why your influence might not be in your title

Portfolio Club with Brooke Hopper

The Roundup: The Cambrian Filter

Mike Schnaidt: Fast Company Creative Director on typography, creative endurance, and designing for the long haul

Explore

The Roundup: What the founder of Creative Mornings learned about creativity

Bonus Episode: Dorrian Porter returns with the Vestaboard Note

Portfolio Club

Tina Roth Eisenberg: Creative Mornings founder on building communities that run on trust

The Roundup: Being correct and being ignored

Portfolio Club with Bob Baxley

Paul Ford: Writer, developer & "fun Cassandra" on why everything is changing (but not how you think)

The Brief: Designing your own portfolio is hell, but it doesn't have to be

The Roundup: Who funds the future?

A guided video tour of the Eames Archive

Portfolio Club with MDS

Jessie McGuire: National Design Award-winning studio leader on design as a civic tool

The Roundup: What AI Can't See

Portfolio Club starts May 27. Matt D Smith is our first guest.

Colin Fisher: The lone genius is a myth

The Roundup: How beliefs make or break us

Nir Eyal: Beyond Belief and how to change your mind to change your life

The Roundup: Living a double life

AMA: Josh Clark & Veronika Kindred

Mason Currey: Author of Daily Rituals on Making Art and Making a Living

Design Better for Teams

The Roundup: 6 Principles for Designing Pricing Pages That Convert

Etinosa Agbonlahor: Behavioral economist on why pricing belongs in the design process

AMA with Bob Baxley

AMA: Bob Baxley

The Roundup: Creative teams need skeptics, sitting with the note you hate, and knowing when to break the rules

Paul Dichter: Stranger Things writer on why the writers’ room isn’t so different from the design studio

The Roundup: Our first impressions of Claude Design

Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: "Innovation-ish" and why most innovation doesn’t have to be a moonshot

The Roundup: Creative friction, the value of personal projects, and do it well, or don't do it

AI x Influence for Design Researchers

Luis Mendo: Designer turned illustrator on making things that could only come from you

The Roundup: How AI Is F*ing Up the Creative Process — and What We Should Do About It

David Shim and Rachana Rele: Read AI CEO and VP of Product Design for AI-native products at Adobe on amplifying creative work — not replacing it

Upwork

Qt Group

Join us at Crafted by UserTesting

The Roundup: Making real things in an unreal world

Leonardo Giusti: Archetype AI's co-founder on physical AI and the limits of the chatbot

The Roundup: Specialists Are the Most Exposed to AI. Here's What to Do About It.

The Brief: A Definitive Guide to Running Effective Design Critiques That Actually Work

Brooke Hopper: Adobe's machine intelligence design lead on what AI can't touch

Design Better guest Autumn Durald Arkapaw wins an Oscar!

The Roundup: The archaeology of creativity

Daisy Fancourt: Epidemiologist on how creativity rewrites your biology and extends your lifespan

New workshop: AI x Influence for Design Researchers

The Roundup (in depth): Google's 3 design strategies shaping their most popular products

Fiona Crombie: Academy Award-nominated production designer on storytelling without words

AMA Recording: New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield on creative process, living a creative life, and the "slow burn of mastery"

Join us for a special online event: How AI is changing confidence in design

Sam Beam of Iron & Wine: Grammy-nominated musician on creativity, collaboration, and why a good day is finding one great lyric

The Brief: The Art of Noticing.

AMA: New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield on creative process, living a creative life, and the "slow burn of mastery"

George Newman: Cognitive scientist on why creativity is more like archaeology than magic

Laundry Sauce

The Roundup: 4 things you need to make work (and life) meaningful

Geetika Agrawal Found the Cure for Burnout, and Turned It Into a Business

Nate Koechley and Matthew Darby: YouTube's UX Director and Director of PM on redesigning one of the world's most-used apps

The Roundup: Embrace your creatureliness

Bill Burnett: How to Live a Meaningful Life

The Roundup: Craft is great, but it isn't enough

Austin Kleon: Author of "Steal Like an Artist" on building a sustainable creative practice

AMA recording: Aarron & Eli on what we learned in 2025, and what to look forward to in 2026

AMA: Aarron & Eli on what we learned in 2025, and what to look forward to in 2026

The Roundup: The Great Collapse and a New Era In Design

Raffaela Panie: Building brand systems at olympic scale

The Roundup: The Year of Mass Acceleration

Design Better Experts in Residence: Three pioneers on design's evolution

Mikon van Gastel: Co-Founder of Sibling Rivalry on why presentation skills matter more than design skills