Design Better
The Curiosity Department, Aarron Walter, Bob Baxley, Eli Woolery, Bobby Hughes, Mason Currey168+ conversations with the designers, creators, and leaders shaping the products and experiences we all use. Hosted by Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter. Free to follow — a lot more when you go paid.
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Nir Eyal: Beyond Belief and how to change your mind to change your life
Episode 176 of the Design Better Podcast
If you want to understand how much your beliefs shape your reality, try this quick exercise. Look at the “checkerboard illusion” below and you can witness first-hand that even when you know two squa...
The Roundup: Living a double life
Lessons we learned from Mason Currey, author of Making Art While Making a Living
As designers, many of us got into the profession because we had other creative passions. Perhaps we grew up drawing, or painting, or were into music or perfor...
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Mason Currey: Author of Daily Rituals on Making Art and Making a Living
Episode 175 of the Design Better Podcast
At several points in his life, Eli imagined what it would take to become a full-time artist — a photographer or illustrator free from client work. What he didn’t realize was that he already had an e...
Design Better for Teams
Hey,
If you lead a design team, you’ve probably felt this: your designers are talented, curious, driven, and quietly starving for growth. The day-to-day leaves little room for the kind of learning that actually builds craft and keeps peopl...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Co-host of Design Better.
I am a designer who lives and works in Silicon Valley.
Eli trained in the Product Design program at Stanford University, where he now teaches as a lecturer. He's the co-host of the Design Better Podcast, an award winning show that explores creativity at the intersection of design and technology.
Award winning designer, founder of Aardvark Design Labs, lover of learning and master of facilitation. Human-centered, playful, and excited to help mentor and grow the people, products, and organizations of the future.
Writing about how writers and artists work, in three books and a twice-monthly newsletter. MAKING ART AND MAKING A LIVING is out now!
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