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Design Better

Design Better co-hosts Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter explore the intersection of design, technology, and the creative process through conversations with guests across many creative fields, helping you hone your craft, unlock your creativity, and learn the art of collaboration. Whether you’re design curious or a design pro, Design Better is guaranteed to inspire and inform. Vanity Fair calls Design Better, “sharp, to the point, and full of incredibly valuable information for anyone looking to better understand how to build a more innovative world.”

Website ↗ Last published 28 October 2026 267 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Design Better

“In terms of impact, I can tell you in the real world, like outside of this rectangle, nothing. I got demoted at my job the very next day after I got put into the Smithsonian.” — Maurice Cherry, Design Better
Maurice Cherry · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We have extremely talented people. I have found that they have low tolerance and low patience for bullshit, for the work around the work. We should just say the thing, agree on the thing and do the thing, go.” — Randy Hunt, Design Better
Randy Hunt · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“High-fidelity slop is a thing. And a high-fidelity slop, narratively, visually, or otherwise, orchestrationally, you can smell it. You can smell it and you will dismiss it. If you aren't visually and narratively acute enough to smell that, then you should not be doing this anyway.” — Matt Owens, Design Better
Matt Owens · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Design Better is hosted by Aarron Walter , Eli Woolery , Erin Walter , Shirley Leung and Aaron Walter .

Recent Episodes

  1. 28 Oct 2026

    Maurice Cherry: Revision Path creator on why attention isn’t impact

    With Maurice Cherry

  2. 21 Oct 2026

    Tom Foley: How to pair typefaces and why the best brand fonts go unnoticed

    With Tom Foley

  3. 14 Oct 2026

    Kevin Flores: Find Your Inner Rebel

    With Kevin Flores

  4. 7 Oct 2026

    Randy Hunt: Notion and Etsy design leader on why the best design teams stay small

    With Randy Hunt

  5. 5 Oct 2026

    Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit

    With Matt Owens

  6. 23 Sep 2026

    Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet, and why the best way to have influence is to be influenced

    With Blaine Billingsley

  7. 17 Sep 2026

    Mack Paul: Co-author of Miracle Road on designing places where innovation happens

    With Mack Paul

  8. 10 Sep 2026

    Federico Casalegno: Samsung EVP and MIT Design Lab founder on what 20,000 years of human creativity means for design today

    With Federico Casalegno

  9. 2 Sep 2026

    Jonathan Adler returns: The minimalist inside the maximalist

    With Jonathan Adler

  10. 28 Aug 2026

    Clay Parker Jones: author of "Hidden Patterns" on why your team isn't really a team

    With Clay Parker Jones

  11. 20 Aug 2026

    Angel Steger: Wealthfront's VP of Design on what architecture teaches you about software

    With Angel Steger

  12. 13 Aug 2026

    Ben Drury: Yoto co-founder on audio, imagination, and screen-free design

    With Ben Drury

Guests

Irene Au (4 episodes), Julie Zhuo (3 episodes), Jake Knapp (3 episodes), Kate Aronowitz (3 episodes), Paola Antonelli (3 episodes), Kevin Bethune (3 episodes), David Kelley (2 episodes), Robin Petravic (2 episodes), Mark Wilson (2 episodes), Brad Frost (2 episodes), Stephen Gates (2 episodes), Seth Godin (2 episodes), and 234 more.