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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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S6 | E4: Julius Tarng - Dissolving the line between...

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2024/05/30

Julius Tarng is the ultimate generalist designer.He started the design tools team at Facebook where he made a massive impact on products like Origami.He then freelanced as a design engineer for companies like Felt, Anthropic, and even prototyped some of the early AI features for the Arc browser.Now he’s in his first-ever engineering role at Linear.So this conversation is a deep dive into what it looks like for designers to approach their work with an engineering mindset. We talk about Julius’s deep

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S6 | E3: Raphael Schaad - Designing a startup from 0...

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2024/05/23

When it comes to design founder stories, Raphael Schaad’s is one of the best. So this episode is the first-ever telling of how Raphael designed and built Cron (which became Notion Calendar). We talk about:Sketching on paper vs. sketching in codeWhy shipping quality software is like campingHow Raphael identified the MVP of the problemWhat it was like building Cron in YC during COVIDWhy you should design dialogues as first-class citizensWhy Raphael didn’t invest much in the Cron landing pageThe

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S6 | E2: Alex Schleifer - How design at Airbnb...

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2024/05/16

Alex Schleifer was the long-time Chief Design Officer at Airbnb where he grew the team from ~35 to over 600 people. So this conversation is an inside look at what makes design at Airbnb so special. We discuss:How to create a culture of decisivenessWhy great design leaders are like chefsHow to succeed in executive CRITs at AirbnbHow designers should prepare for an AI futureWhat it means to operate with a “first team” mindsetWhat it takes to achieve Airbnb’s level of craft at scaleWhich elements of

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55:42

S6 | E1: Noam Segal - Tools and tactics for modern...

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2024/05/09

Noam Segal has led research at companies like Meta, Airbnb, Wealthfront, Twitter, and most recently Upwork. He also teaches the #1 user research course on Maven. So this episode is a masterclass in user research. We discuss:How to conduct better interviewsThe keys to an effective research planHow to become a masterful research storytellerHow AI is creating a new wave of research toolsWhen to rely on qualitative vs. quantitative tacticsThe modern user research tools you need to know aboutHow to

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S5 | E12: Helen Tran - Designing with a founder mindset

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2024/05/01

Helen Tran was an early designer at Shopify and is now leading product design at AngelList. But in between those two roles she also ran her own startup for three years. So the goal of this conversation is to figure out how that period of time impacted her design practice so we can all learn how to design with a founder’s mindset. In this episode we discuss: - How Helen is approaching design leadership differently this time around - How Helen constructors hypotheses to influence product strategy -

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S5 | E11: Hunter Hammonds - Positioning pt. 2: How...

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2024/04/25

Today we're talking with designer and entrepreneur, Hunter Hammonds, who has grown 5 different agencies to millions in revenue in less than a year. So in this episode we walk through the different stages of building an independent design business—starting from positioning yourself as a solopreneur all the way to scaling operations to 7 figures. We get into the weeds about: - Hunter’s framework for selling yourself on a landing page - The tactics OffMenu uses to convert more leads to customers - Why

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S5 | E10: Nick Pattison - Positioning pt. 1: How to...

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2024/04/24

Ready for a masterclass in positioning? Nick Pattison has been working for himself for well over 10 years... but recently he's laser-focused on running 1-week brand sprints (and it's working). So this episode is a deep dive into his new freelance playbook: - The automations that allow him to focus on sales and creative direction - Lessons learned from running 25+ brand sprints at $15k each - How Nick focuses on growing his creative muscles - His strategies for presenting work to clients - Why he

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S5 | E9: Dennis Müller - Designing with soul

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2024/04/18

This episode is the ultimate design founder story. Dennis shares all of the ups and downs along his journey to build Amie—a new productivity tool that captures your emails, calendar, and to-dos in a single beautiful product. Some of the highlights: - Where Dennis draws inspiration - The traits Dennis looked for in early hires - What Dennis looks for in design candidates - The backstory behind Amie’s viral website launch - How Dennis balances his intuition with product feedback - How Dennis thinks

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S5 | E8: Vercel’s Glenn Hitchcock & John Pham -...

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2024/04/11

Over the last few months, design engineering has by far been the #1 most requested topic. So I wanted to get the inside scoop from the team at Vercel to learn more. In this episode we get to hear from: 1. Glenn Hitchcock - https://twitter.com/glennui (Director of design engineering) 2. John Pham - https://twitter.com/JohnPhamous (Lead design engineer) The goal of this conversation is to help people understand the role that design engineers play and to outline a path you can take to develop some of

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S5 | E7: Michael Wandelmaier - Envisioning the art of...

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2024/04/04

Since the beginning of my design career, I’ve looked up to Metalab. So this interview is a special one because we get to learn from their Head of Design, Michael Wandelmeier. We go deep into how design works at Metalab and talk about specific strategies around: - Mike’s go-to storytelling tactics - The importance of opinionated design - When they ignore constraints on a project - The unique way they map out user journeys - Tips for driving alignment on complex projects - How they use the

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S5 | E6: Adam Mura - How to design and build websites...

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2024/04/03

One of the tools I'm most interested in right now is Relume. 200k+ people are using it to design and build websites faster with AI. They have a massive set of Figma/Webflow components which allows them to take a unique approach that “respects the process” of web design. In this bonus episode, their co-founder Adam gives us an end-to-end demo where he sitemaps, wireframes, designs, and builds a full website in ~30 min. We then get into the weeds about: - How the web design process will evolve with AI

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S5 | E5: Rich Arnold - Becoming a creative problem...

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2024/03/27

Rich Arnold was the Head of Design at Vine, a design lead on the early Instagram Stories team, and now he works as a design manager at Coinbase. So this episode goes deep into: - How Rich grew as a storyteller at IG - Why we cant let data be the designer - The importance of “zooming out” in your work - How to grow your creative problem solving muscles - What it takes to design successful consumer products - Ian Spalter (Old Head of Design at Instagram) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianspalter/ - Rus

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S5 | E4: Brad Frost - The new frontier of design systems

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2024/03/21

If you’ve dabbled in design systems then you’re no doubt familiar with Brad Frost and atomic design. He’s laid the foundation for design systems teams around the world. So in this discussion we talk about the types of challenges he faces at Big Medium and how he’s envisioning the future of design systems:Why we should build a universal design systemHow Brad is using AI to elevate design systemsHow design systems designers can succeed in an AI worldThe highest leverage activities for DS designers to

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45:05

S5 | E3: Gabe Valdivia - Storytelling, freelancing,...

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2024/03/14

One of the most requested guests has been Gabe Valdivia. He was an early designer at Facebook, a designer manager at Google, and has led design for different startups over the years most recently as the head of design for Patreon. But in the last year he's made the jump to start his own practice and position himself as a fractional design partner for early stage teams. So a lot of this conversation gets into the weeds about what it's like to design 0 to 1 experiences. We talk about tactics for

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S5 | E2: Andy Allen - What’s wrong with software...

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2024/03/07

As soon as I read No More Boring Apps I was hooked. Andy Allen immediately became one of my design heroes and now I use his Not Boring apps daily. So this conversation is a behind-the-scenes of his journey, an analysis of the state of software design, and a glimpse of where we’re headed next as an industry. Some highlights: - The design tools Andy is most excited about - Andy’s advice for people wanting to learn 3D - The differences between good and great design - The 4 things needed for design to

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S5 | E1: Jenny Wen - The art of designing for delight

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2024/02/29

In this episode we get to hear from Jenny Wen who is the person who originally designed and brought Figjam to market. This conversation is full of inslights like:How Jenny attacks ambiguity early in the design processWhat we can learn from Figjam’s product strategyJenny’s framework for adding delight to a productHow to create visuals that stand out in a sea of confetti animationsStrategies for facilitating live workshops in FigjamWhat Jenny looks for in design candidatesJenny’s vision for the future

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23:30

8 key takeaways from season 4

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2024/02/22

This episode expands on 8 key insights that I took away from interviewing designers like Soleio, Kevin Twohy, Molly Hellmuth, Soren Iverson, etc. 1. A unique way to stand out as a design candidate 2. How to grow as a vision caster 3. The question every freelancer should ask clients 4. The curse of knowledge in web design 5. When systems thinking is most important 6. Strategies for Figma variables 7. The Craft Flywheel 8. How to know which details matter Dive is where the best designers never stop

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S4 | E9: Soleio - What makes a truly great software...

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2024/02/14

Soleio made a name for himself as the 2nd design hire at Facebook and eventually went on to lead design at Dropbox. Now he invests in extraordinary software startups like Figma, Framer, Vercel, Perplexity, Replit, Universe, tldraw, and dozens more worldwide. So in this discussion we go deep into: - The fascinating story behind project Motion - How Soleio’s skillset evolved during his time at Facebook - When it makes sense to invest in craft (and when it doesn’t) - what Soleio looks for when hiring

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Bonus Episode: Helen Zhou - How designers can get the...

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2024/02/13

Galileo recently broke design twitter with the launch of their new generative AI tool for builders. So in this episode we talk with their co-founder and lead designer, Helen Zhou about: - Her journey as a design founder - Why user research for AI tooling is unique - How AI will change the day-to-day role of a designer - Her response to concerns about LLMs and creativity - The potential breakthrough use case for UI generation Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿 🌐 dive.club 🐦

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S4 | E8: Kevin Wong - How design works at Webflow

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2024/02/08

Webflow has had as big an impact on design as any company over the last decade. So this episode is an inside look at their design culture, rituals, and key insights from their Head of Design, Kevin Wong. Here’s a preview of some of the ideas we cover: - How Webflow executed a massive rebrand leading up to their conference - The different types of prototypes for driving alignment - The role of design systems in their latest visual refresh - How designers can handle situations where stakeholders

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