Design Better
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Randy Hunt: Notion and Etsy design leader on why the best design teams stay small
Episode 194 of the Design Better Podcast
In graduate school, Randy Hunt poured his heart and soul into a poster for Milton Glaser’s class, a picture built entirely from hand lettering that read as an image from across the room and as words...
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Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
Episode 193 of the Design Better Podcast
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 study volumeone.com. Most websites back then had a picture...
The Roundup: How to defeat jargon, win over a pushy PM, and fix the collaboration gap
What we learned from Blain Billingsley, staff designer at OpenAI
Cataplasm. Athanor. Estoppel. If you know the definition of these words without having to lean on Wikipedia or another source, you’re probably either a linguist or really goo...
Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
Episode 192 of the Design Better Podcast
Blaine Billingsley is a staff designer at OpenAI, and his path there was anything but a straight line. He studied music composition and comparative religion, played guitar in Texas for a living (he...
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Product & Design Leader | VP of Design @Wealthfront. Formerly @Meta, @Dropbox, @Pinterest, Colingo, Xobni, and @23andMe
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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