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Dive Club 🤿

Where designers never stop learning 💪Dive Club is an interview series hosted by Ridd that is designed to unlock knowledge from today"s most prolific designers. We go deep into craft, storytelling, tools, design engineering, startups, and much more.You can find all of the episodes, key takeaways, and bonus resources here 👉 Dive.club

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62:15

Soleio - The rise of designers who ship

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2024/10/30

As soon as I finished our original interview, I knew I had to have Soleio on as the first repeat guest. He led early design efforts at Facebook and Dropbox. Now he invests in design-driven startups like Figma, Framer, Vercel, etc.So this week’s episode is all about how designers and startups can succeed in a world where everything is changing. We go deep into:Ideal traits for a founding designerHow startups can strategically attack incumbentsWhy the future belongs to designers who can shipThe

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Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas

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2024/10/23

This week’s episode is with Joel Lewenstein who is the Head of Product Design at Anthropic where he works on cutting edge AI products like Claude. After 80+ episodes, I can honestly say this one’s “juice per minute” score is off the charts.Some of my favorite highlights:How the team prototyped Claude ArtifactsNew mental models for designing AI productsThe way designers shape strategy at AnthropicHow to master the dark art of prompting as a designerThe future of language as the dominant interface for

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47:39

Teo Connor - How Airbnb innovates with design

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2024/10/16

Airbnb is one of the truly iconic design-driven companies. They set the bar for design innovation in so many ways. So this week’s episode is a deep dive with their VP of Design, Teo Connor.She gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how design operates at Airbnb including:How Airbnb is bringing vitality to the visual languageHow Airbnb is empowering designers to be designersHow to succeed in a design review with Brian CheskyWhy it’s not enough to think in terms of flows and screensWhy Airbnb is

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60:16

Dan Moreno - Challenging the status quo as a designer

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2024/10/09

Imagine your first traditional “product design” job is designing the Snapchat messaging UX for millions of people across the globe…Well that’s what Dan Moreno’s journey looked like as an engineer turned designer.So this week’s episode is a deep dive into his 5+ years designing Snapchat as well as his new role at a rocket ship startup called Captions.Some highlights:Dan’s formula for presenting design ideasHow Dan grew his visual skills as an engineerInside look at the AR exploration team at

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48:51

S8 | E1: Jason Yuan - Going beyond craft to design...

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2024/10/02

I remember the exact moment where I first explored MercuryOS. It was clear Jason Yuan was one of the most skilled design thinkers I'd ever encountered. No wonder he landed a role designing AI products at Apple shortly after.But the main reason I wanted to interview him was to learn more about his new product called Dot. It's by far my favorite personal AI and a beautifully designed experience. So this conversation is a behind-the-scenes of his latest journey and a fun glimpse at what the future

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49:33

S7 | E11: Mariana Castilho - Evolving from designer...

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2024/09/25

Mariana Castilho has one of the most impressive career trajectories of any designer I’ve ever met.I first saw her while mentoring through Shift Nudge and within a few years she’s landed roles at Universe, Vercel, and most recently as the first designer at Pierre.One of the keys to her growth has been investing in her skills as an engineer. So a big part of this interview is learning what it takes to transition from designer to builder.Some highlights:The future of design engineeringWhat makes

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49:21

S7 | E10: Janum Trivedi - What makes a software...

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2024/09/18

This week’s episode is with Janum Trivedi who makes some of the most stunning prototypes in all of design. So the main goal of this conversation is to answer the question “what makes a piece of software feel great?”Some of the key talking points:The 3 levels of animationShipping a major refresh of the Netflix iOS appWhy shaders are a big deal (and how they work)How Janum built the download animation for ArcWhy Janum built his own animation engine (Wave)Learning the principles of fluid design working

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52:21

S7 | E9: Ben Blumenrose - Investing in the next wave...

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2024/09/12

Ben Blumenrose was one of the earliest designers at Facebook and has spent the last 12 years as a co-founder and Managing Partner of Designer Fund. That’s allowed him to invest in many of the design founders that you’ve heard from on this shown (like Jorn from Framer or Colin from Visual Electric).So the goal of this conversation is to tap into Ben’s perspective as a designer turned investor. This episode creates a blueprint for people interested in designing for startups or maybe even building a

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53:17

S7 | E8: Henry Modisett - Designing a unicorn AI...

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2024/09/04

Imagine leading the design of an AI product that skyrockets to a billion+ dollar valuation in under two years…That’s the story of Perplexity and today we get to hear from their founding designer and current Head of Design, Henry Modisett. Some of the highlights from this conversation:What it takes to thrive as a founding designerWhy Henry likes hiring designers who can codeThe challenges of designing dynamic interfacesWhy Henry didn’t want to anthropomorphize the AIThe initial creative direction for

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66:54

S7 | E7: Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a...

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2024/08/29

This week's episode is with Ryan Scott who was an early designer at Doordash and then spent years as a design lead at Airbnb. Nowadays Ryan teaches hundreds of designers ranging from seniors to VPs how to make a bigger impact at your company.This episode is jam-packed with insights about:What it’s like presenting at Airbnb CRITWays to unlock your credibility as a designerHow to mitigate risk when presenting your ideasWhat it takes to speak the language of the businessTypes of “PM-y” questions that

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58:00

S7 | E6: Oliur - Grow your personal brand and get...

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2024/08/28

Investing in my personal brand has been the best investment I’ve ever made in my career. So I wanted to find the perfect designer to give a personal branding masterclass and I think it’s Oliur.He’s built a massive audience across YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. and he shares his hard-earned knowledge in this episode:Oliur’s keys to growing on social mediaDifferent ways to create leverage in your careerHow he (accidentally) landed a billion-dollar clientHow you can get more confident putting

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45:45

S7 | E5: Maheen Sohail - Navigating ambiguity in AI...

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2024/08/22

This week’s episode is with Maheen Sohail who is a senior staff designer working on generative at Meta. She joined as one of the earliest designers on both the VR and AI teams, so a big part of this discussion is about navigating ambiguity when there’s no clear playbook to follow.We go deep into:New types of interface patterns for AIThe unique ways she thinks about prototypingEthical considerations when designing AI produdctsHow Maheen explores AI models through side projectsWhy the goal posts for

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48:45

S7 | E4: George Kedenburg - Pushing past the pixels

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2024/08/15

After 8 years designing at Meta, George Kedenburg III pulled a 180 and joined Humane as a design lead. So this conversation is a deep dive into designing AI products and how the role of product designer evolves in an AI-native company:How to become a creative problem solverHow George navigates ambiguity at HumaneWhy there’s no such thing as an edge case with AIWhat George learned while using AI to learn PythonHow AI is reshaping the landscape for software designWhy George created a Slackbot to

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51:09

S7 | E3: Colin Dunn - What it takes to design a...

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2024/08/07

Visual Electric has quickly become my go-to product for image generation and in this week’s episode we get to learn from the founder and designer, Colin Dunn. The whole discussion is an excellent look at the design founder journey as well as a deep dive into AI-native creative tools. We get into the weeds about:Visual Electric’s big bet to take on CanvaThe hidden challenges with designing AI productsColin's approach to early user and market researchThe art and science of raising funds for your

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S7 | E2: Nate Parrott - Going from engineer to...

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2024/08/01

The Arc browser is one of the best products I’ve downloaded in the last few years which is why I’m so excited about this interview with their founding designer, Nate Parrott.This conversation, we get an inside look at what makes design at the Browser Company so unique. We discuss:How Nate went from engineer at Snap to the Browser Co.Why design at Arc prioritizes fingerprints > consistencyHow Nate collaborates with engineers on ArcThe story behind Arc Search’s hook featureThe Browser Co’s culture

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41:48

S7 | E1: Dan LaCivita - A glimpse of the future of...

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2024/07/24

This week’s episode is with Dan LaCivita who is a co-founder of Play—a new way to design mobile apps using native iOS materials. As soon as I saw this app clip I knew it was a big deal and that I had to interview him to learn more.So in this conversation we go deep into:How to unlock the skill of interaction designWhat Apple’s sandbox unlocks for designersWhy they decided to launch Play as a mobile appThe importance of keeping your hands in the clayHow AI might impact the future of interaction

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56:42

S6 | E11: Gavin Nelson - Prototyping, interaction...

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2024/07/18

Gavin Nelson is currently designing the Linear mobile app in addition to the best app icons on the internet. So this episode is a deep dive into prototyping and interaction design:Gavin’s journey learning SwiftUIHow Gavin got into designing app iconsHow to design physics-based interactionsWhat it’s like designing for power users at LinearWhy interaction design is so important for mobile appsWhy Gavin uses code almost exclusively for prototyping nowWhen it makes sense to prototype at the beginning of

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43:16

S6 | E11: Vincent van der Meuelen - The story of...

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2024/07/11

If you watched last week’s episode, then you heard Jordan Singer say how visual search was actually the “killer feature” (not generative AI). What’s interesting is that this feature was actually a mid-project pivot.So in this episode we get the full behind-the-scenes of visual search from design engineer Vincent van der Meulen:Why they decided to pivotHow Vincent went cowboy modeA look at the future of design engineeringWhat good design looks like in an AI worldWhy visual search is a big deal for

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49:12

S6 | E10: Jordan Singer - The future of AI in Figma

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2024/07/05

Live from Config, this episode with Jordan Singer follows his journey from the Diagram acquisition all the way to Figma’s 2024 AI release. We go deep into:What didn’t ship at Config and whyHow they navigated the early idea mazeHow the role of designer will be impacted by AIWhat it will be like designing dynamic interfacesWhat makes Jordan’s new role at Figma so uniqueWhy renaming layers was such a big internal debateWhy the sparkle icon will become the new floppy diskThe surprising pivot that led to

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S6 | E9: Kathy Zheng - How to make the jump to staff...

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2024/06/26

This week’s episode is with Kathy Zheng who is currently the Head of design at a Web3 protocol called Optimism. But before that she was the first designer at Patreon and went on to spend over 6 years at Github.So the goal of this conversation is to look at how Kathy grew as a designer while at Github and identify the specific milestones on her journey to reaching senior and eventually staff designer.We get into the weeds about:How the role of staff and senior designers differThe traits shared by the

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