Best The Curiosity Department Sponsored By Wix Studio Podcasts (2025)

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Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred: Sentient Design and the future of interfaces 36:51

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This is a premium episode of Design Better. You'll hear a preview of the episode here, but head over to our Substack and become a premium member if you'd like to access the full episode: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/josh-clark-and-veronika-kindred As designers, we’re entering a new era. AI isn’t just a tool we use behind the scenes, but a coll…

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Bonus Episode: Shani Sandy, VP, Experience Design at IBM, live in NYC for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour 27:47

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Maybe you’ve already heard, but we’re in the midst of significant global and technological change. It will be a struggle for many businesses to adapt, but IBM is a company that’s no stranger to change. Time and again, they’ve reimagined, restructured, and refactored their business to stay relevant. Our guest today, Shani Sandy, is playing an import…

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The Brief: Stop specializing—live a multidisciplinary creative life 13:48

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by Eli Woolery If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the multitude of people we’ve interviewed for Design Better, it’s that the most innovative creators of our time share an unlikely trait: they refuse to stay in their lane. While conventional wisdom pushes specialization, these polymaths build careers by following curiosity across fields—from nu…

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Christopher Lyons: From producing music to venture capital, and why EQ beats IQ in building the future 18:25

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This is a preview of a premium episode. To get access to the full episode, head to our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/christopher-lyons Some careers have clear through lines: pick a college major, get a job in that industry. Others take serendipitous turns. Christopher Lyons is the latter, but with some surprising twists. Chris started…

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Bonus Episode: Champ Bennett, co-founder of Capsule, on making motion design easy and scalable 50:15

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We are living through a Cambrian explosion of new tools, powered by generative AI. It can be tough to wade through the sea of options in front of us, and find platforms that actually help us in our workflow instead of being a distraction. That’s why it was so refreshing to discover the tool Capsule a little over a year ago. We use it to create moti…

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Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster 28:08

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This is a preview of a premium episode. Visit our Substack to get access to the full episode: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/cassie-mcdaniel Cassie McDaniel, Medium’s head of design, is someone with a clear vision for how a design team should work. She believes team members should have a breadth of skills, craft should be the foundation of produ…

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The Roundup: AI creative workflow, vibe coding, ethics, agents, and more 48:49

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Find bonus content and more on our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/the-roundup-ai-creative-workflow Rarely do we get the chance to pause and reflect on the conversations we’ve been having—and to spot the red threads that run through them. But that’s exactly what we’re doing today. We’re trying out a new format—we’re calling it The Round…

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Bonus Episode: Amy Lokey, Chief Experience Officer at ServiceNow, live in SF for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour 31:40

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This interview was recorded live on May 1st for UserTesting’s ThiS Connect City Tour. Interested in joining us for our next live show? We’re joining an incredible lineup at #THiSConnect in NYC (including former Design Better guest Seth Godin), where we’ll talk about customer experience, innovation, and the real impact of AI. 📍 Catch us in New York …

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Video Rewind: John Cleese: A cheerful guide to creativity 37:22

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Hi everyone! We recently surveyed our audience and learned that many of you would like to see more video. So, we’re kicking off a new run of video episodes, beginning with our interview featuring John Cleese—actor, writer, comedian, and author of Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide. You can watch the interview on our Substack, or on Youtube. Enj…

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Marco Suarez: From designer to coffee entrepreneur ☕ 49:32

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A special sponsored episode of the Design Better Podcast It’s a tough job market out there right now for designers and other creative technologists. Many of us are wondering if there are other ways we might be able to use our skills, and some of us are considering an entrepreneurial path. Our guest today has done just that. Marco Suarez has had an …

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Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross: Your Brain on Art 49:31

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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 like math or language arts. But those of us who pursue the arts instinctually recognize that there is something in creative expression that is foundat…

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Rewind: OK Go: Making the impossible possible 57:35

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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 episodes from 2023 with the band OK Go. In the time since we recorded the interview, they’ve come out with a new album, and with several new music videos, …

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Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir 25:22

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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 later the Amiga and Macintosh. One of the very first games he played was called Karateka, which was inspiring for the realistic movements of its digital k…

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Brad Frost: Design systems are about human relationships 1:12:48

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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 influence on the philosophy and tactics of building design systems than Brad Frost, author of Atomic Design. After helping countless companies craft design s…

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Heidi Trost: Human Centered Security 35:23

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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 requires you to “identify all the motorcycles” in the tiled images, we want to give up and surrender to our robot overlords…or throw our laptop out the …

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The Brief: Afraid of losing your job? Become irreplaceable 9:14

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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 many. But it’s also an opportunity—to reflect on your work, your skills, and the unique value you bring as a designer. What could you do to make yoursel…

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Trenton Doyle Hancock: An artist’s process for creating order from chaos 26:58

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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 graduate Painting and Drawing program at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia—he had work in the Whitney Biennial. It was a bit like winning an Oscar whil…

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Dan Harden: Form follows emotion—industrial design lessons from George Nelson to Steve Jobs 1:08:36

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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 Nelson, Henry Dreyfuss, Steve Jobs, and influential companies like Frog design in the early days. It seems impossible that one person could have such …

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Kristen Berman: Behavioral economics expert on designing products that change behavior 28:16

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Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/kristen-berman Many of the most successful products launched in Silicon Valley lean heavily on behavioral design to increase engagement. Former Design Better guest Nir Eyal talks about this in his books Hooked and Indistractable, and today we have another expert in thi…

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The Brief: What designers can learn from writers and storytellers 15:27

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Words are worth a thousand pictures by Eli Woolery How does Sir Jony Ive, the famed former head of design at Apple, start every project? If, like me, you guessed by sketching, you’d be wrong. I was surprised to learn when he visited the design capstone class I co-teach at Stanford that he starts all projects by writing. But Jony gave our class a po…

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Gareth Hinds: A golden age for the graphic novel 48:02

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Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/gareth-hinds Graphic novels are experiencing something of a renaissance recently. As the medium has gained popularity, notable thinkers like Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari and the late John Lewis have brought their stories to life beautifully in graphic novel form. G…

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From your inbox to your ears: Audio versions of The Brief 8:13

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Every month, our premium subscribers receive our newsletter The Brief , which assembles wisdom gleaned from interviews with creative thinkers. It’s a chance to go deeper into salient topics like creative collaboration, the ephemeral nature of designing software, and how other creative people in music and film solve problems. But inboxes are busy pl…

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Kevin Bethune: Nonlinear—Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction 22:05

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Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/kevin-bethune-returns One core strength that good designers cultivate is the ability to navigate ambiguity. Our guest today, Kevin Bethune, returns to the show to discuss his new book, Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction, which emphasizes that to…

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Scott Belsky: Adobe's Chief Strategist on navigating the creative Cambrian Explosion 46:07

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Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/scott-belsky We live in an era where it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the pace of new technology. As designers, creatives, and technologists, we have a wealth of tools at our disposal that people in our roles only a decade ago could only have dreamed of. Yet it can be d…

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Idris Brewster: Bringing history to life with augmented reality 28:05

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Find bonus content and more on our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/idris-brewster In Berlin, there are memorials to the Holocaust called Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones,” that memorialize some of the victims of the tragic event with small brass stones placed into the cobblestone streets outside their last-known residence. These poig…

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Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred: Sentient Design and the future of interfaces 36:51

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Bonus Episode: Shani Sandy, VP, Experience Design at IBM, live in NYC for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour 27:47

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The Brief: Stop specializing—live a multidisciplinary creative life 13:48

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Christopher Lyons: From producing music to venture capital, and why EQ beats IQ in building the future 18:25

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Bonus Episode: Champ Bennett, co-founder of Capsule, on making motion design easy and scalable 50:15

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Cassie McDaniel: How Medium eliminated its PM function and started moving faster 28:08

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The Roundup: AI creative workflow, vibe coding, ethics, agents, and more 48:49

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Bonus Episode: Amy Lokey, Chief Experience Officer at ServiceNow, live in SF for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour 31:40

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Video Rewind: John Cleese: A cheerful guide to creativity 37:22

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Marco Suarez: From designer to coffee entrepreneur ☕ 49:32

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Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross: Your Brain on Art 49:31

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Rewind: OK Go: Making the impossible possible 57:35

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Jordan Mechner: Pioneering game designer on creating Prince of Persia, Karateka, and a new graphic novel memoir 25:22

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Brad Frost: Design systems are about human relationships 1:12:48

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Heidi Trost: Human Centered Security 35:23

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The Brief: Afraid of losing your job? Become irreplaceable 9:14

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Trenton Doyle Hancock: An artist’s process for creating order from chaos 26:58

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Dan Harden: Form follows emotion—industrial design lessons from George Nelson to Steve Jobs 1:08:36

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Kristen Berman: Behavioral economics expert on designing products that change behavior 28:16

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The Brief: What designers can learn from writers and storytellers 15:27

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Gareth Hinds: A golden age for the graphic novel 48:02

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From your inbox to your ears: Audio versions of The Brief 8:13

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Kevin Bethune: Nonlinear—Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction 22:05

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Scott Belsky: Adobe's Chief Strategist on navigating the creative Cambrian Explosion 46:07

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Idris Brewster: Bringing history to life with augmented reality 28:05