Design Better

Eli Woolery, Aarron Walter

Booking Overview

Interview-led design and technology show featuring established designers, creative leaders, authors, academics, and senior executives discussing product development, organizational design, innovation, and the creative process. PR agencies could credibly pitch senior design and product executives, design educators, authors with relevant books, and accomplished creative practitioners; booking is likely high difficulty because recent guests include leaders from Samsung, Airbnb, Wealthfront, MIT, and major design brands.

Metrics

Episodes: 262

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.9k subscribers

Contact Information

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Host

Eli Woolery - Co-host of Design Better, exploring design, technology, creative practice, and collaboration through conversations with leading practitioners.

Aarron Walter - Co-host of Design Better, discussing design leadership, product experiences, creativity, and the ways organizations build better work.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior design, product, creative, or organizational leaders; accomplished practitioners at notable companies; authors with substantive books; or academics and researchers with recognized expertise in design, technology, innovation, or workplace transformation.

Required Achievements:

Leadership roles at major technology, financial, consumer, or design organizations, Authorship of relevant books, Founding or leading prominent design labs, studios, or companies, Recognized academic, research, or teaching contributions, Major exhibitions, retrospectives, products, or organizational transformations

Recent Guest Discussions

Mack Paul - How Research Triangle Park Was Designed And Developed, Public-private Partnerships, Urban Planning, Infrastructure, Innovation Ecosystems, And Writing A Book With His Father.

Federico Casalegno - Human-centered Design, Artificial Intelligence And Computational Design, Product Experience Innovation, Cross-disciplinary Teams, Design Research, And Creativity In Large Organizations.

Jonathan Adler - Craft, Interiors, Commercial Design, Creative Entrepreneurship, Curating A Retrospective, And The Relationship Between Maximalism And Minimalism.

Clay Parker Jones - Organizational Design, Team Structures, Psychological Safety, Creativity At Work, Management, And Building More Human Workplaces.

Angel Steger - Product Design, Architecture And Software, Growth Design, Design Leadership, Usability, Financial Product Experiences, And Hiring Designers.

Recent Topics

Design, Product Design, User Experience, Design Leadership, Organizational Design

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Design Better

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

September 23, 2026

Blaine Billingsley is a staff designer at OpenAI, and his path there was anything but a straight line. He studied music composition and comparative religion, played guitar in Texas for a living (he remembers checking his bank account, seeing seven dollars, and feeling pumped), then drove to San Francisco and took a data entry job at a startup. This is a preview of a premium episode. To listen to the whole thing, join our premium membership on Susbtack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/blai...

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

September 17, 2026

In the mid-1950s, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the country. Its economy ran on tobacco, furniture, and textiles — all three in decline — and its universities were turning out talent that promptly left for somewhere with better jobs. Find bonus content and more on our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/mack-paul-co-author-of-miracle-road Today the stretch of pine woods between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill is the largest research park in the United States. The ...

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

September 10, 2026

When Samsung’s CEO asked Federico Casalegno to redesign the cameras on the company’s phones, Federico told him he was the wrong person for the job. He wasn’t an optical engineer. He didn’t understand cameras. What he understood was storytelling — and he pointed to the Lascaux caves in France, where people were marking walls twenty thousand years ago for the same reason we hold up our phones today: to capture a moment, and tell it to someone we love. Find the full episode on our Substack:http...

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