if you can find a way to write casually and just be yourself, it's so much easier to write. It's so hard to get setup, to set expectation ..

make your brain hurt: thats what makes creative people happy

Great design is important. On Regent Street we've recently launched a social media hub which we designed.

failure IS an option... lateral connections... like that phrase

fuck data design matters even for one because we give birth to each piece with the guts of our passion , love and knowledge, we dont give people what thet want we deliver what they need

Ben Chestnut is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp, one of the most successful e-mail marketing companies around, with over 1.2 million users. They were recently featured in “Fast Company” for their non-traditional corporate culture and creative environment.

Aarron Walter is the Director of User Experience at MailChimp, where he strives to make software more human. Aarron is the author of Designing for Emotion from A Book Apart. Aarron taught design at colleges in the US and Europe for nearly a decade, and speaks at conferences around the world. His design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of startups and venture capitalists.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Ben Chestnut and Aarron Walter

Design Matters by Debbie Millman features interviews with designers, artists and cultural leaders, including Lawrence Weiner, Barbara Kruger, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Kandel, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Michael Arad, Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, Steven Heller, Jonah Lehrer, among others.

In 2011, Design Matters received the People’s Design Award from the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

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