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Design Better's mission is to produce work that helps people refine their craft, improve collaboration skills, and learn from the creative process of others.
Design Better · Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
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Design Better is a show where Eli Woolard and Aaron Walter explore creativity at the intersection of design and technology. Its mission is to produce work that helps people refine their craft, improve their collaboration skills, and learn from the creative process of others.
Design Better · Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
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The Design Better host describes treating design reviews like debates, thinking sharp rationale would win, but kept losing to leaders who didn't like the direction.
Design Better · Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
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This episode was produced by Eli Woolery and Aaron Walter, with engineering and production support from Brian Paik of Pacific Audio. The podcast can be found at designbetterpodcast.com.
Design Better · Jonathan Adler returns: The minimalist inside the maximalist
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Most websites back then had a picture or maybe an image map — very simple website design; if a site was fancy, it had a picture. The Design Better host describes Flash as the center of the universe for designers at the time — an open canvas where they could design anything and script a lot of interaction, and describes the early web era as a Wild West scenario of technology and design, referencing K10K, hell.com, Joshua Davis, and Casey Reas as code artists creating bizarre things.
Design Better · Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
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The source introduces Blaine Billingsley as a staff designer at OpenAI, framing the episode around his perspective on design and AI collaboration.
Design Better · Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
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The host suggests that jargon in the tech industry can potentially work against us, especially when working with machines as tools, and that sense-making — bringing jargon-free clarity and pushing on truth-seeking — is a really important skill for a UX designer.
Design Better · Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
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Mikan van Gastel, founder of Sibling Rivalry, is a Cranbrook grad who appeared on Design Better a year or so ago. Eli Woolard's professor Muntin was amazing at giving critiques, largely because of his experience at Cranbrook.
Design Better · Matt Owens: Athletics co-founder on keeping your creative fire lit
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Design Better · Jonathan Adler returns: The minimalist inside the maximalist
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Blaine says he doesn't think there's any better or worse way to approach product design — there are a lot of people with really successful approaches that are very, very different. He describes his own human-story approach as one different way, and says he stayed on the Gmail team a long time because it matched how he naturally thinks about product and designing software.
Design Better · Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
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Blaine Billingsley describes there being many successful approaches to product design that are very different from each other, with no approach better or worse.
Design Better · Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
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Clay Parker Jones notes that design teams are better at being driven by a user or customer problem, which serves as a purpose object. They are more obsessed with the user problem than the average team. He also notes that true purpose is more normal for craft-oriented and functionally oriented teams.
Design Better · Clay Parker Jones: author of "Hidden Patterns" on why your team isn't really a team
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The host poses a devil's advocate counter-argument: if AI makes systems management so easy that the energy input required to wrestle a system becomes very low, designers may no longer need to keep systems at small scale — AI systems management could reduce the energy needed to manage complexity so much that small systems are no longer necessary.
Design Better · Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
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The source explains that when you label a stakeholder's concern out loud, more often than not the tension drops and you start solving real problems together. Blaine calls this labeling, and it works as well on stakeholders as it does across a negotiating table. The technique comes from former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss and his class on the art of negotiation.
Design Better · Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
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The source frames the division of labor in AI-assisted work: agents bring speed and scale, while you bring taste, judgment, and control.
Design Better · Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
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