Design Better co-hosts Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter explore the intersection of design, technology, and the creative process through conversations with guests across many creative fields, helping you hone your craft, unlock your creativity, and learn the art of collaboration.
Whether you’re design curious or a design pro, Design Better is guaranteed to inspire and inform. Vanity Fair calls Design Better, “sharp, to the point, and full of incredibly valuable information for anyone looking to better understand how to build a more innovative world.”
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Bill Burnett: How to Live a Meaningful Life (00:28:57)
When we last spoke with Bill Burnett, it was in 2020 and he’d just published his book Designing Your Work Life, co-authored by Dave Evans. The world was in the midst of a pandemic, and work and career...
Austin Kleon: Author of "Steal Like an Artist" on building a sustainable creative practice (00:28:35)
To make good creative work, you’ll inevitably do a lot of bad work along the way. So building a thriving creative practice relies on showing up and doing the work consistently, whether you feel inspir...
Raffaela Panie: Designing the brand and visual identity for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games (00:20:07)
Every four years, the Olympic Games capture the world’s attention—not just through athletic achievement, but through a complete visual identity that must resonate across cultures, languages, and gener...
Design Better Experts in Residence: Roundtable at Sequoia Capital (00:59:30)
We recorded this special live episode of Design Better at Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley, with our Experts in Residence: Irene Au, Kevin Bethune, and James Buckhouse.
Longtime listeners will recog...
Mikon van Gastel: Co-Founder of Sibling Rivalry on why presentation skills matter more than design skills (00:24:48)
There was a time when a movie title sequence was just the moment you grabbed your popcorn and waited for the real show to start. But in the mid-90s and early 2000’s, that changed forever with films li...
Mark Wilson: Fast Company's Global Design Editor on design's defining moments in 2025 (00:42:23)
As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to pause and take stock of what’s been a transformational year in design. From Figma’s landmark IPO to the rise of AI across every category of product, to major bra...
Video Rewind: Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster (00:27:00)
We’re taking a holiday break, so we’re rewinding to one of our favorite episodes this year with Cassie McDaniel, Medium’s head of design. We’re also including video from the episode, which you can wat...
Aaron Draplin: Field Notes co-founder on what skate culture taught him about design (00:27:14)
A larger than life figure in the creative world, Aaron Draplin has been designing everything from logos to posters since 1995. Few designers are as prolific as Aaron. He’s the founder of Draplin Desig...
Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett: Designing business tools that support how creatives actually work (01:08:48)
Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett first crossed paths at Studiomates, a Brooklyn based co-working space where some of New York’s most talented designers built businesses and influential organizations....
2025 Holiday Gift Guide (00:44:41)
It’s that time of year again—our favorite episode to put together. A moment to look back at the objects, experiences, and ideas that sparked creativity for us this year. From books that moved us to to...
Phil Gilbert: Making a 114-year-old, 400,000 person company care about design (00:44:09)
Changing the culture of a 400,000-person company isn’t just hard—it’s the kind of transformation most leaders wouldn’t even attempt. But when Phil Gilbert joined IBM as General Manager of Design in 20...
Cecilia Brenner: Moving beyond design theater to measurable impact (00:22:53)
We’ve talked to many design leaders who have burned out after a decade or more of corporate work. But after 17 years at Philips designing health innovations, Cecilia Brenner wasn’t burnt out…she loved...
Video Rewind: Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir (00:24:57)
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We’ve been on the road this week, record...
Ben Swire: Author of "Safe Danger" on the hidden reason team building efforts fail (00:50:20)
As educators, we’ve grown wary of the term “safe spaces,” especially when what many students really need is a space to engage with “dangerous” ideas. But true dialogue doesn’t begin with risk—it start...
Jeremy Faludi: Sustainability professor on why most sustainable design fails before it starts (00:21:48)
Design is a problem solving discipline. We research user needs, explore solutions, make things, and ship them. But one important stakeholder is often missing from the conversation: the world we live i...
Alison Rand: Leading with radical humanity instead of radical candor (00:46:37)
We’ve worked alongside people for years, only to realize that we know nothing about their personal life. And it probably affected our working relationship. Knowing your colleagues as humans reframes i...
The Brief: How our recent past should prepare us for the age of AI (00:14:47)
In this issue of The Brief, we’re reflecting on what we learned about the past and future of design from our conversation with Paola Antonelli (The Museum of Modern Art), Mark Wilson (Fast Company), K...
Fitz and the Tantrums: Finding your creative voice in your 40's and why success feels different than you think (00:29:20)
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With the 15...
Bonus Episode: 30 years of design with Wert&Co, live in NYC featuring Paola Antonelli, Mark Wilson,Kate Aronowitz, Mike Davidson, and Meaghan Choi (01:12:14)
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Today we celebrate 30 years of Wert&Co.—the quiet champions of design who have shaped ...
Rewind: Paola Antonelli: How design shapes culture (00:59:17)
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Design Better has been on the road recently, recording a live episode in Manhattan for design s...
Keith Sawyer: Become more creative by learning to see (00:28:14)
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The key to creativity isn’t about having...
Jae Park: Designing a new generation of vehicles at Ford, and why friction matters in the creative process (00:47:11)
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As designers and creatives, many of us spent years of our career looking at blank canvases and attempting to ...
Astro Teller & Ivo Stivoric: Why moonshots require unlearning everything you know (00:27:27)
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When a company talks about taking a “mo...
Henry Modisett: Perplexity’s VP of Design on embracing ambiguity and leading with curiosity (00:47:27)
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AI isn’t just another layer in our digital toolkit—it’s reshaping the tools themselves, and in the proces...
Elizabeth Lin: Rethinking design education in the age of AI (00:20:11)
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Have you played around with Cursor? If...
