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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