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Portfolio Club with Jared Erondu
A recording from Aarron Walter's live video
Portfolio Club is back this week with Jared Erondu, head of design at Span. Jared shared how he and his team are using AI in their design workflow, and we critiqued two portfolios offering advice...
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
Episode 182 of the Design Better Podcast
Niyati Gupta describes her career as one long experiment — deliberately putting herself in uncomfortable, ambiguous situations and treating every move as a personal learning loop. That instinct took...
Portfolio Club with Brooke Hopper
A recording from Aarron Walter's live video
The Roundup: The Cambrian Filter
Three things we learned about which tools — and ways of working — will survive
Normally, I don’t write The Roundup while sitting in the middle of the Big Sur River, on one of the Adirondack chairs that The River Inn places on its property....
Mike Schnaidt: Fast Company Creative Director on typography, creative endurance, and designing for the long haul
Episode 181 of the Design Better Podcast
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 closer to the foundation everything else rests on. He’s spent...
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Writing about how writers and artists work, in three books and a twice-monthly newsletter. MAKING ART AND MAKING A LIVING is out now!
I am a designer who lives and works in Silicon Valley.
Professor and occassional jazz trumpeter. Author of "The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups" (Avery/Penguin Random House).
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.
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