Design Better Podcast Transcripts
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Design Better co-hosts Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter explore the intersection of design, technology, and the creative process through conversations with guests across many creative fields, helping you hone your craft, unlock your creativity, and learn the art of collaboration.
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Randy Hunt: Notion and Etsy design leader on why the best design teams stay small
October 7, 2026
Randy Hunt (0:01)
Look, you're not going to come here and get some training in career path.
We don't talk about titles or levels internally in this team. You're here to be on the team and make stuff happen. We want to compensate you fairly for doing that. When we do great work, we're all going to win together. Like, let's go, this is about building stuff. I think you really sell that idea and that vision…
Aarron Walter (0:23)
In graduate school, Randy Hunt poured his heart and soul into a poster for Milton Glaser's class.
It was a picture built entirely from hand lettering that read as an image from across the room and as words up close. Glaser glanced at it and said, Well, that's not very good, and moved right on to the next student. It's brutal. Randy tells that story fondly. What stayed with him wasn't the sting, but the standard…
Eli Woolery (1:01)
At Notion, that standard meant a design team smaller than anyone would expect, on purpose. Randy argues that limited bandwidth forces a company to prioritize, and that great people have little patience for what he calls the work around the work. The team doesn't talk about titles or levels. Designers ship code in…
We also get into what he calls whole design, which means treating a push notification with the same care as the main dashboard. He explains why hotels and restaurants inspire him as much as any software, and traces that back to growing up near Disney's carefully spaced trash cans in Orlando and to the bowl of fresh…
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