AarronWalter

I’m the co-founder of Design Better and have spent two decades influencing how the tech industry thinks about design—from building the UX practice at Mailchimp to advising the White House, WHO, and hundreds of companies worldwide.

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Design Better explores the intersection of design, technology, and the creative process through conversations with inspiring guests across many creative fields.

Latest Episode

Ian Bogost: Game designer, Atlantic writer, and philosopher of the ordinary, on the small stuff that makes life delightful

A few years ago, Ian Bogost wrote what he thought was a throwaway Atlantic piece about how electric vehicles would finally kill the manual transmission. It went off like a bomb — and the reaction told him people weren’t mourning a car part. They were mourning the feeling of dropping a gear into place, a small moment of sensory connection quietly disappearing without anyone choosing to give it up.

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