Sam Beam of Iron & Wine: Grammy-nominated musician on creativity, collaboration, and why a good day is finding one great lyric
Most musicians start learning at an early age—or so we think. But that wasn’t the path our guest today took. He was an arty kid—drawing and painting in his bedroom—then a film teacher, before he beca...
27 Feb 22min
George Newman: Cognitive scientist on why creativity is more like archaeology than magic
We’ve all heard the mythology around great ideas: the lone genius struck by inspiration, the eureka moment in the bath or shower. But George Newman believes we’ve been thinking about creativity in the...
20 Feb 25min
Nate Koechly and Matthew Darby: YouTube's UX Director and Director of PM on redesigning one of the world's most-used apps
Redesigning one of the world’s most-used apps is no small feat, especially when that app is also the second largest search engine in the world: YouTube. Over the last four years, Nate Koechly, UX Dire...
12 Feb 43min
Bill Burnett: How to Live a Meaningful Life
When we last spoke with Bill Burnett, it was in 2020 and he’d just published his book Designing Your Work Life, co-authored by Dave Evans. The world was in the midst of a pandemic, and work and career...
4 Feb 28min
Austin Kleon: Author of "Steal Like an Artist" on building a sustainable creative practice
To make good creative work, you’ll inevitably do a lot of bad work along the way. So building a thriving creative practice relies on showing up and doing the work consistently, whether you feel inspir...
28 Jan 28min
Raffaela Panie: Designing the brand and visual identity for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games
Every four years, the Olympic Games capture the world’s attention—not just through athletic achievement, but through a complete visual identity that must resonate across cultures, languages, and gener...
21 Jan 20min
Design Better Experts in Residence: Roundtable at Sequoia Capital
We recorded this special live episode of Design Better at Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley, with our Experts in Residence: Irene Au, Kevin Bethune, and James Buckhouse. Longtime listeners will recog...
14 Jan 59min
Mikon van Gastel: Co-Founder of Sibling Rivalry on why presentation skills matter more than design skills
There was a time when a movie title sequence was just the moment you grabbed your popcorn and waited for the real show to start. But in the mid-90s and early 2000’s, that changed forever with films li...
6 Jan 24min
