Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross: Your Brain on Art
Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/susan-magsamen-and-ivy-ross In school, art is often positioned in curricula as an enrichment subject, not a core skill...
24 Apr 202546min
Rewind: OK Go: Making the impossible possible
Visit our Substack for bonus content: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/rewind-ok-go Aarron and Eli are traveling with their families for Spring Break, so we’re bringing back one of our favorite epis...
16 Apr 202555min
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
