All Episodes

Kevin Flores: Find Your Inner Rebel

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

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

Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet

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

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

Jonathan Adler returns: The minimalist inside the maximalist

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

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

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

Jeff Hammoud: Chief Design Officer of Rivian on constraints, color, and what separates designers from stylists

Eric Ries: Lean Startup author on why good companies go bad, and why good design is critical to success

Ian Bogost: Game designer, Atlantic writer, and philosopher of the ordinary, on the small stuff that makes life delightful

Chris Entwisle and Mark Havens: authors of WAIL on the constraints that led to timeless designs for Prestige Records

Niyati Gupta: Netflix Product Design Lead on what happens when a designer becomes a product manager, and why your influence might not be in your title

Mike Schnaidt: Fast Company Creative Director on typography, creative endurance, and designing for the long haul

Bonus Episode: Dorrian Porter returns with the Vestaboard Note

Tina Roth Eisenberg: Creative Mornings founder on building communities that run on trust

Paul Ford: Writer, developer & "fun Cassandra" on why everything is changing (but not how you think)

Jessie McGuire: National Design Award-winning studio leader on design as a civic tool

Colin Fisher: The lone genius is a myth

Nir Eyal: Beyond Belief and how to change your mind to change your life

Mason Currey: Mason Currey: Author of Daily Rituals on Making Art and Making a Living

Etinosa Agbonlahor: Behavioral economist on why pricing belongs in the design process

Paul Dichter: Stranger Things writer on why the writers’ room isn’t so different from the design studio

Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: "Innovation-ish" and why most innovation doesn’t have to be a moonshot

Luis Mendo: Designer turned illustrator on making things that could only come from you

David Shim and Rachana Rele: Read AI CEO and VP of Product Design for AI-native products at Adobe on amplifying creative work — not replacing it

Leonardo Giusti: Archetype AI's co-founder on physical AI and the limits of the chatbot

Brooke Hopper: Adobe's machine intelligence design lead on what AI can't touch

Daisy Fancourt: Epidemiologist on how creativity rewrites your biology and extends your lifespan

Fiona Crombie: Academy Award-nominated production designer on storytelling without words

Sam Beam of Iron & Wine: Grammy-nominated musician on creativity, collaboration, and why a good day is finding one great lyric

George Newman: Cognitive scientist on why creativity is more like archaeology than magic

Nate Koechly and Matthew Darby: YouTube's UX Director and Director of PM on redesigning one of the world's most-used apps

Bill Burnett: How to Live a Meaningful Life

Austin Kleon: Author of "Steal Like an Artist" on building a sustainable creative practice

Raffaela Panie: Designing the brand and visual identity for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games

Design Better Experts in Residence: Roundtable at Sequoia Capital

Mikon van Gastel: Co-Founder of Sibling Rivalry on why presentation skills matter more than design skills

Mark Wilson: Fast Company's Global Design Editor on design's defining moments in 2025

Video Rewind: Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster

Aaron Draplin: Field Notes co-founder on what skate culture taught him about design

Jessica Hische and Chris Shiflett: Designing business tools that support how creatives actually work

2025 Holiday Gift Guide

Phil Gilbert: Making a 114-year-old, 400,000 person company care about design

Cecilia Brenner: Moving beyond design theater to measurable impact

Video Rewind: Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir

Ben Swire: Author of "Safe Danger" on the hidden reason team building efforts fail

Jeremy Faludi: Sustainability professor on why most sustainable design fails before it starts

Alison Rand: Leading with radical humanity instead of radical candor

The Brief: How our recent past should prepare us for the age of AI

Fitz and the Tantrums: Finding your creative voice in your 40's and why success feels different than you think

Bonus Episode: 30 years of design with Wert&Co, live in NYC featuring Paola Antonelli, Mark Wilson,Kate Aronowitz, Mike Davidson, and Meaghan Choi

Rewind: Paola Antonelli: How design shapes culture

Keith Sawyer: Become more creative by learning to see

Jae Park: Designing a new generation of vehicles at Ford, and why friction matters in the creative process

Astro Teller & Ivo Stivoric: Why moonshots require unlearning everything you know

Henry Modisett: Perplexity’s VP of Design on embracing ambiguity and leading with curiosity

Elizabeth Lin: Rethinking design education in the age of AI

Nick Foster: Could, Should, Might, Don't—a new way to think about designing for the future

Tim Brown: Allbirds co-founder on mission-driven design and entrepreneurship

Matt Raw: Balancing legacy and innovation at The New York Times

The Brief: Microscopes and telescopes

Rhiannon Bell: Designing the future of search at Google

Bonus Episode: Inside Sonos's distributed research & design process for the Arc Ultra

Noah Levin: AMA with Figma's VP of Design on their latest releases

Design Better Live AMA at The New York Times

Video Rewind: Kamasi Washington: A jazz genius on collaborative lessons learned from Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, and more

Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred: Sentient Design and the future of interfaces

Bonus Episode: Shani Sandy, VP, Experience Design at IBM, live in NYC for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour

The Brief: Stop specializing—live a multidisciplinary creative life

Christopher Lyons: From producing music to venture capital, and why EQ beats IQ in building the future

Bonus Episode: Champ Bennett, co-founder of Capsule, on making motion design easy and scalable

Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster

The Roundup: AI creative workflow, vibe coding, ethics, agents, and more

Bonus Episode: Amy Lokey, Chief Experience Officer at ServiceNow, live in SF for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour

Video Rewind: John Cleese: A cheerful guide to creativity

Marco Suarez: From designer to coffee entrepreneur ☕

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross: Your Brain on Art

Rewind: OK Go: Making the impossible possible

Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir

Brad Frost: Design systems are about human relationships

Heidi Trost: Human Centered Security

The Brief: Afraid of losing your job? Become irreplaceable

Trenton Doyle Hancock: An artist’s process for creating order from chaos

Dan Harden: Form follows emotion—industrial design lessons from George Nelson to Steve Jobs

Kristen Berman: Behavioral economics expert on designing products that change behavior

The Brief: What designers can learn from writers and storytellers

Gareth Hinds: A golden age for the graphic novel

From your inbox to your ears: Audio versions of The Brief

Kevin Bethune: Nonlinear—Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction

Scott Belsky: Adobe's Chief Strategist on navigating the creative Cambrian Explosion

Idris Brewster: Bringing history to life with augmented reality

Jake Knapp: Click—How to make what people want

Jenny Blackburn: Google's VP of UX for Gemini on how generative AI can improve our workflows

Scott Berkun: Why Design is Hard

Marcus Bell: Producer and songwriter for Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, and Timbaland on music and creativity in the age of AI

Reconsidering: Mastering change with Brad Stulberg

Rewind: Jonathan Hoefler: Typography legend on type history, philosophy, and entrepreneurship