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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.
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- 5 days ago51 min
Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job market
This week's episode is with Danny Martinez and we're doing the ultimate deep dive into design hiring and what's happening in today's job market. Danny has the perfect vantage point as the CEO of Decimals—the platform that powers everything I do with the Dive Talent Network. So this episodes is about as practical as it gets.- What companies want in a “design engineer”- The biggest green and red flags from hiring managers- How the best teams are iterating on the hiring process- Examples of portfolios getting hired in the talent network- Why brand design is the most difficult design role to hire for- How to attract the most in-demand designers as a hiring manager- The interaction design example hiring managers keep highlighting- + a lot more
- 1 weeks ago51 min
Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designer
This week's episode is with Geoff Teehan—co-founder of the legendary design agency Teehan+Lax, longtime design leader at Facebook, and now Chief Design Officer at Lightspark.Some highlights:How Geoff has navigated multiple cycles of changeWhat the “parking spot” phase of software looks likeWhy Geoff plans to only hire 4 designers at LightsparkThe design backstory behind Geoff’s viral Dialed gameHow Geoff brings consumer principles into enterprise design＋ a lot more
- 2 weeks ago49 min
Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise design
This week's episode is with Nev Flynn and we're doing a deep dive into how he's bringing artful expression into enterprise design as the Head of Design at ElevenLabs.Some highlights:Inside look at ElevenLabs internal brand toolsWhy Nev is prioritizing specialists over generalistsWhat Nev looks for when evaluating a design portfolioHow they built a shader orb system for 40 million voicesWhat happens when non-designers are designing with AIHow the team is making their design system agent-nativea lot more
- 3 weeks ago47 min
Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAI
This week's episode is with Ed Bayes and we're doing a deep dive into how designers at OpenAI prototype the future of Codex/ChatGPT Work.Some highlights:- How prototyping at OpenAI has shifted recently- The design challenges of bringing Codex into ChatGPT- How Ed thinks about the spectrum of dynamic interfaces- How Codex thought about their information architecture bets- Why Ed structures design teams around personas not features- The traits of the designers making the biggest impact at OpenAI- + a lot moreThe Bitter Lesson (http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html) — ML essay he referenced on scaffolding and model releases
- Sep 2, 202651 min
Evil Rabbit - The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercel
This week’s episode is with Evil Rabbit who is the founding designer at Vercel and an iconic figure in the design community. He shares his design journey (which started with his first job in Argentina at 12 years old)So he’s going to share his journey in design and what it was like Some highlights:- What it takes to design an iconic brand identity- How Vercel’s new Creative Studio team operates- How he landed his first design job at 12 years old in Argentina- Why Vercel is shifting from designing assets to building tools- What he learned from working directly with Guillermo (Vercel CEO)- + a lot more
- Aug 25, 202648 min
John Bai - The Grok Bot design journey
Grok Bot has been going viral the last two weeks so this week's episode is a behind-the-scenes of the design journey with John Bai (who was the first NYC design hire at Cursor).He screen-shares a ton of agent interaction pattern ideas as well as his unused concepts for the Grok Bot onboarding flow.Some highlights:- The prototype that led to the Grok Bot mascot- Why John realized chat was still the right UX for AI- How John uses agents to streamline his Figma work- Comparing John's onboarding concepts for Grok Bot- Why John still starts his design explorations in Figma- What it took to turn AI agents into a consumer product- Why no two designers at Cursor have the same tools/process- + a lot moreRidd mentioned Colin Dunn’s episode ("informed simplicity")
- Aug 18, 202654 min
Patrick Morgan - Building a custom prototyping playground
This week's episode is with Patrick Morgan and we're doing a deep dive into the prototyping environment he built for Sublime Security.What started as an attempt to organize his team’s prototypes ended up becoming a new type of AI design tool. It's a great example of how designers can level up the team by building thoughtful internal tools.Some highlights:How Patrick hacks low-fidelity styles with AIPatrick’s vision for agent-native design handoffHow Patrick built a canvas to organize prototypesThe design principles that guide how the agent prototypesHow Patrick built a system to port over production frontendHow the brand team uses Design Studio to build internal toolsa lot more
- Aug 11, 202651 min
Kyle Zantos - Our AI design workflows have changed (again)
This week's episode is with Kyle Zantos who is officially the first person to make three appearances on Dive Club 🫢Seems like AI totally transforms the design process every few months so Kyle and I play a little ping pong and share some of the workflows that we've been having success with lately.This is easily one of the most practical episodes on the channel and hopefully you come out of here with some specific tactics you can add to your practice.Some highlights:- 5 use cases for designing with HTML docs- How you can build a UX writing environment- My new Supercut MCP workflow for prompting- How Kyle explores with node-based workflows- Strategies for brainstorming UX ideas with Fable- How to decide when to invest in a personal design tool- + a lot more- Terminal Graph app (by Caden Williams, Internet Development Studio, Pike Place, Seattle) -https://terminalgraph.com/- Supercut MCP - https://supercut.ai/agents- Emil Kowalski - https://emilkowal.ski/- Jakob Krehel - https://x.com/jakubkrehel- Jhey Tompkins - https://x.com/jh3yy?lang=en
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