Design Better for Teams

The #1 reasondesigners quit?They stop growing.

Design Better for Teams gives your design organization weekly access to the world's most creative thinkers — so your team keeps growing, keeps getting inspired, and keeps choosing to stay.

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What's included

Everything your team needs to keep growing.

Every Tuesday

World-class design conversations.

Your team gets full, uninterrupted access to Design Better's weekly episodes — deep conversations with designers, executives, scientists, comedians, and artists who all have something urgent to teach about creativity and craft. No ads. No paywalls.

Embracing ambiguity and leading with curiosity

Henry Modisett · Perplexity

Why constraints are a gift

Paula Scher · Pentagram

Building a sustainable creative practice

Austin Kleon · Author, Steal Like an Artist

Every Friday

The Roundup newsletter.

The most useful ideas from the week, synthesized and delivered to your inbox. Practical insights your team can implement Monday morning.

The Roundup: What the founder of Creative Mornings learned about creativity

The Roundup: Being correct and being ignored

The Roundup: Who funds the future?

Free for every team member

9 design handbooks.

Download the entire Design Better library — from Design Systems to Animation to Design Leadership — and share with your whole team.

Monthly

Live AMAs.

Ask Me Anything sessions where your team puts questions directly to past guests and industry experts. All recordings available on-demand.

Always available

281+ podcast episode archive.

Nine years of conversations across design, creativity, leadership, and craft — instantly searchable from Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Topics covered

9 years of conversations across every area of design craft.

Design LeadershipDesign SystemsDesignOpsProduct Design & PrototypingCreative CollaborationStorytelling & NarrativeTypographyAI & CreativityDesign ThinkingDesign History & Theory

Past guests

Your team learns directly from the best.

Paula Scher

Pentagram

Aaron Draplin

Draplin Design Co.

Ed Catmull

Pixar Co-founder

Tony Fadell

Creator of the iPod & Nest

Paola Antonelli

MoMA Design Curator

David Sedaris

Humorist

OK Go

Band & Directors

Llisa Demetrios

Eames Office

Austin Kleon

Author & Artist

Greg Hoffman

Former Nike CMO

Ellen Lupton

Typography Educator

John Maeda

Microsoft

What teams say

Real results for real design leaders.

Design Better helps me gain a better perspective and keep up with the design industry.

Laurel Beyers · Director of Product Design, XAM and AI

You are dedicated to bringing on incredible guests, drop fresh knowledge, share hot takes, and still be curious across a wide range of topics.

Kevin Flores · Director of Product Design, LinkedIn

Thank you for continuing to invest in the growth of the design community and of course always bringing great content!

Aaron Irizarry · Head of Design, Retail Lending, PNC Bank

I consistently find value in the conversations you're having, the AMAs and the resources you make available.

Tom Weatherburn · Project Manager, City of Toronto

Works where your team works

Delivered to Slack or Microsoft Teams.

Install the Design Better app in whichever platform your team already lives in. New episodes, newsletters, and design quotes arrive automatically. Search the full archive and get curated resources for any design challenge — without leaving chat.

Slack

Install the Design Better Slack app and new content arrives automatically in any channel you choose. Search the full archive with /db search and surface curated resources with /db ask.

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🎙️ New episode: Paula Scher on designing for institutions, building a legendary studio, and why constraints are a gift.

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📬 This week's Roundup: What great onboarding flows have in common, the neuroscience of color, and a deep dive into design ops at scale.

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💬 Daily quote: "Do fewer things, better." — Irene Au, Khosla Ventures

Microsoft Teams

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The Design Better Teams bot brings weekly content directly into your Microsoft Teams channels. Search the full archive with db search and surface curated resources with db ask.

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🎙️ New episode: Ideo's Tom Kelley on creative confidence, building innovative cultures, and why failure is the price of invention.

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📬 Weekly digest: The latest podcast, newsletter, and 3 curated resources your team can use this week.

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💬 "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs

Get Started — from $7/seat/mo

Pricing

Simple, volume-based pricing.

Billed annually per seat. Price per seat drops automatically as your team grows. No contracts, cancel anytime.

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→Featured in The Roundup newsletter every Friday
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Teams subscriber discount

20% off

As a Design Better Teams subscriber, you get an exclusive discount on job postings. Use the code below at checkout — bringing the price from $249 to $199.

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