Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir
Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/jordan-mechner As a kid in the 80’s, Eli fell in love with games on computers like the Apple II, Commodore 64, and lat...
8 Apr 202524min
Brad Frost: Design systems are about human relationships
Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/brad-frost Design systems are the foundation of nearly every piece of software we use. No one has had a greater influe...
3 Apr 20251h 9min
Heidi Trost: Human Centered Security
Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/heidi-trost Designing a good security experience is hard. Every time we run into one of those security captchas that r...
25 Mar 202532min
The Brief: Afraid of losing your job? Become irreplaceable
Becoming an irreplaceable designer By Aarron Walter The software industry is in a tough contraction phase. Teams are downsizing, and companies are prioritizing efficiency. It’s a stressful time for ma...
20 Mar 20258min
Trenton Doyle Hancock: An artist’s process for creating order from chaos
Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/trenton-doyle-hancock Aarron’s friend Trenton Doyle Hancock did something remarkable when they were both in the gradua...
18 Mar 202525min
Dan Harden: Form follows emotion—industrial design lessons from George Nelson to Steve Jobs
Visit our Substack for bonus content and more:https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/dan-harden If you were mapping out the most amazing career in industrial design, you might dream of working with George ...
12 Mar 20251h 5min
Kristen Berman: Behavioral economics expert on designing products that change behavior
Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/kristen-berman Many of the most successful products launched in Silicon Valley lean heavily on behavioral design to inc...
11 Mar 202527min
The Brief: What designers can learn from writers and storytellers
Words are worth a thousand pictures by Eli Woolery How does Sir Jony Ive, the famed former head of design at Apple, start every project? If, like me, you guessed by sketching, you’d be wrong. I was su...
28 Feb 202514min
