Maurice Cherry: Revision Path creator on why attention isn’t impact
For eleven years, Maurice Cherry made a weekly podcast called Revision Path showcasing Black designers from around the world. He recorded mo...
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Tom Foley: How to pair typefaces and why the best brand fonts go unnoticed
Tom Foley didn’t set out to design typefaces. As a postgraduate student at Central Saint Martins in London, he was researching why Ireland,...
Kevin Flores: Find Your Inner Rebel
Kevin Flores has been part of the Design Better community for years — we first met him in 2017, while he was leading design at 23andMe, back...
Randy Hunt: Notion and Etsy design leader on why the best design teams stay small
In graduate school, Randy Hunt poured his heart and soul into a poster for Milton Glaser’s class, a picture built entirely from hand letteri...
Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
When Aarron was fresh out of grad school, working at an agency outside Philadelphia, he and his coworkers used to crowd around a monitor to...
Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
Blaine Billingsley is a staff designer at OpenAI, and his path there was anything but a straight line. He studied music composition and comp...
Mack Paul: Co-author of Miracle Road on designing places where innovation happens
In the mid-1950s, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the country. Its economy ran on tobacco, furniture, and textiles — all thr...
Federico Casalegno: Samsung EVP and MIT Design Lab founder on what 20,000 years of human creativity means for design today
When Samsung’s CEO asked Federico Casalegno to redesign the cameras on the company’s phones, Federico told him he was the wrong person for t...
Jonathan Adler returns: The minimalist inside the maximalist
Jonathan Adler was one of our favorite guests, so we’ve been angling to get him back ever since. He started as a potter and now designs furn...
Clay Parker Jones: author of "Hidden Patterns" on why your team isn't really a team
We all know that there is something fractured about the workplace, that makes it inefficient, and at times inhumane. If only someone was thi...
Angel Steger: Wealthfront's VP of Design on what architecture teaches you about software
A few years ago, Dropbox redesigned its website and revenue dropped by thirty percent. It was an all-hands-on-deck moment: people working we...
Ben Drury: Yoto co-founder on audio, imagination, and screen-free design
Like a lot of parents, Eli struggled over the years to get his kids more into reading and away from screens. He wasn’t necessarily on the se...
Jeff Hammoud: Chief Design Officer of Rivian on constraints, color, and what separates designers from stylists
This is a special bonus episode, an interview with Rivian’s Chief Design Officer, Jeff Hammoud. We’ve got all the audio here, but it’s worth...
Eric Ries: Lean Startup author on why good companies go bad, and why good design is critical to success
Fifteen years ago, Eric Ries handed a generation of founders a playbook. When Eli was in a Palo Alto-based startup accelerator in 2011, The...
Ian Bogost: Game designer, Atlantic writer, and philosopher of the ordinary, on the small stuff that makes life delightful
A few years ago, Ian Bogost wrote what he thought was a throwaway Atlantic piece about how electric vehicles would finally kill the manual t...
Chris Entwisle and Mark Havens: authors of WAIL on the constraints that led to timeless designs for Prestige Records
Years ago, two friends in Philadelphia — both designers, both obsessed with jazz — kept noticing the same notation on the back of their favo...
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
Niyati Gupta describes her career as one long experiment — deliberately putting herself in uncomfortable, ambiguous situations and treating...
Mike Schnaidt: Fast Company Creative Director on typography, creative endurance, and designing for the long haul
Typography is often treated as a detail — the thing you finalize after the real design decisions are made. But for our next guest, it’s clos...
Bonus Episode: Dorrian Porter returns with the Vestaboard Note
There’s something magical about the Vestaboard: it’s a physical, split-flap display connected to the internet that displays missives and use...
Tina Roth Eisenberg: Creative Mornings founder on building communities that run on trust
When Tina Roth Eisenberg moved to New York in 1999 as a new designer, she kept asking herself the same question: where are my people? Eighte...