A design leader's newsletter with playbooks and essays on how design and product quality, ownership and hiring change as AI tools spread. Recent issues cover who owns quality in small companies without designers, why hiring should test judgment rather than portfolio output, and who owns the decision to ship AI-generated screens.
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Design Better is a podcast and newsletter on the craft and career of design, featuring interviews with design leaders and practical guides such as setting up AI-assisted app building. Readers get episode highlights, career advice and lessons from prominent designers, often with a promotional push toward the podcast and books.
Prem, a product designer, shares case studies from his work on large-scale and consumer product projects, including a unified publishing platform and an onboarding redesign for a music app. Readers get a practical look at how design leadership, information architecture and onboarding decisions played out in real organisations.
A design leadership newsletter from CDO School, mixing promotion for paid workshops like Claude Cowork for Design Leaders with reflective writing on leading design teams through AI adoption and vibe coding with design systems. It offers a practitioner's perspective for senior designers trying to make sense of AI for their teams.
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