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Dive Club 🤿
by Ridd
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
Episodes
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Myles Palmer - Building Custom AI Tools at Metalab
I’ve seen a lot of custom AI tools on this show… But this week’s episode with Myles Palmer (Design Director at Metalab) might take the cake. Myles is the perfect archetype for what it looks like to be curious as a builder today and in this episode he gives us the ultimate behind-the-scenes look…
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Rhiannon Bell - How Google designs for AI at scale
This week's episode is with Rhiannon Bell (VP of UX for Google Search) and we're doing a deep dive into what it takes to design for AI at the scale of Google. Some highlights: - The design decisions that unlocked AI Mode - What it takes to design at the scale of Google - Designing dynamic…
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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...
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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 change What the “parking spot” phase of software looks like…
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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 tools Why Nev is prioritizing specialists over generalists What Nev…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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Nate Parrott - How a Side Project Became Claude Design
Did you know Claude Design started off as a side project from one person? That's what this week's episode with Nate Parrott is all about. He shares the origin story along with a ton of examples of how he's using Claude Design in his own workflow. Some highlights: - Nate’s tips for getting the…
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Charlie Deets - Designing the internet computer
Charlie Deets (https://x.com/charliedeets) has designed Safari, Arc, and now Dia… Needless to say he knows a thing or two about designing browsers 😅 So in this week’s episode Charlie shares the principles that guide his design practice and takes us on a tour of some of the finer craft details...
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Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world
Pablo Stanley (https://www.pablostanley.com/) has built as many creative tools as anyone in our industry. So in this episode he gives us a behind-the-scenes of his latest creations (including how he prototyped the all-new design mode in Vercel's v0). We go deep into: - The two types of design...
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Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"
Jason Yuan (https://x.com/jasonyuan) has one of the most fascinating minds in design so naturally I like to keep tabs on what he is creating 😎 This episode is a deep dive into Jason Yuan’s creative process for Hivemind (his new social intelligence product). He screenshares dozens of unused...
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Meaghan Choi - Designing Claude Code (and what's coming next)
It kinda feels like how design operates at Anthropic is consistently 3-6 months ahead of the rest of the industry. As a result, Meaghan Choi (https://x.com/meaghaneschoi) (Design Lead for Claude Code) has quickly become a staple guest on this show. In today’s episode we go deep into her design...
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Meng To - Codex superpowers for designers
Meng To (https://x.com/MengTo?lang=en) is one of the people I keep tabs on to see how he's evolving his workflow as he builds his ideas with AI. So I sat down with him to get a look into what his process looks like now… (spoiler: he’s moved everything to Codex) We do a ton of screen-sharing and…
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Loredana Crisan - Figma's big bets for the future of AI design
This week we are going behind the scenes of Config 2026 with Loredana Crisan (Figma’s Chief Design Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanacrisan/ We talk about Figma’s vision for AI, why design is having “an identity crisis and a renaissance at the same time,” and what it means to use AI to...
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Brett Williams - How a Visual Designer Became a Builder
What does it look like when a designer with zero technical background commits to shipping something real? That’s what this week’s episode with Brett Williams is all about. He gives us a behind-the-scenes of his journey building Gather including: Brett’s process for iterating on a design Brett’s…
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Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leader
This week's episode is with Ron Goldin who has led design at Google, Shopify, UberEats, and in my opinion... he's the perfect example of what it looks like to thrive as a design leader in an AI world. So this week’s episode is a deep dive into his journey as a builder and it’s full of stories:...
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How Anthropic, Every, & Ramp design with AI
A couple of weeks ago I recorded my first ever episode in front of a live audience (at Ramp HQ in NYC) 🗽 So today I’m excited to share the panel discussion recording with 3 incredible guests: Meaghan Choi who is the design lead for Claude Code and Cowork Dan Shipper who is the CEO of Every and…
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Andy Madrick - Why AI changed design handoff forever
⭐️ Check out Andy’s course - Craft at Speed https://join.dive.club/maven-aff-andy-madrick Use code DIVECLUB for 15% off Andy Madrick ( https://x.com/andymadrick ) is rethinking what it means to be a designer in 2026. While at Notion, he’s developed a workflow where he prototypes directly in code,...
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Tommy Geoco - The state of the design industry right now
Over the last few months, Tommy Geoco has went on site to study today’s top design teams (Vercel, Perplexity, Metalab, Ramp, etc.). So this week’s episode is a deep dive into all of the trends he’s seeing around AI workflows and where design is headed next. Some highlights: Why 59% of designers...
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Katarina Batina - Making big bets with design
How do the best designers shape strategy at companies like Shopify? That’s what today’s episode with Design Director Katarina Batina is all about. Some highlights: Balancing metrics and vision Redesigning the shopping cart UX Taking a big bet on the shopping feed How product strategy has changed...
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Rafa Conde - Make your designs memorable
Rafa Conde (https://x.com/rafahari) is a design engineer at Retro and one of the most creative designers I know. I still remember where I was when I first saw the video on his personal site (https://rafa.design/) 😂 In this episode we unpack what it means to design experiences that bring delight…
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Polly D’Arcy - Going from IC to VP of Design at Wealthsimple
Imagine going from IC to leading the Wealthsimple design team in a few short years… That was Polly D’arcy’s (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pollydarcy/) journey and today’s episode covers everything she’s learned along the way. We go deep into design leadership, craft, hiring, and a lot more. Some...
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Brandon Jacoby - Seeing Taste vs. Creating Taste as a designer
Capital, early Cash App, and most recently, X, all have one designer in common — [Brandon Jacoby](https://x.com/JacobyBrandon). In this episode Brandon is talking about how he’s combining his years of experience designing with fresh, high-functioning teams and is now launching an all-new...
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Brian Lovin - How to level up with AI as a designer
When it comes to tools and workflows, Brian Lovin (https://x.com/brian_lovin) is someone I pay very close attention to. He’s actually the one who first got me hooked on Conductor (https://www.conductor.build/). But times are changing (again 😅)… So today’s episode is a deep dive into his design...
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Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI
If you're like me you gotta be curious... what's it like designing at OpenAI? So I’m excited to share today’s episode with you :) It’s a deep dive with OpenAI’s Head of Product Design, Ian Silber (https://x.com/iansilber). Some highlights: **** - The traits of the best systems thinkers at OpenAI…
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Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studio
Remember when the Carl Rivera (https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/carl-rivera) told us about his vision to create the new Shopify Product Design Studio? Well in this episode I got to sit down with Marvin Schwaibold (https://x.com/MSchwaibold) from Molly studio who Shopify recently acquired to bring...
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Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AI
Flora Guo (https://x.com/floguo) has one of the more impressive career trajectories of anyone I've interviewed on this show. She's currently the founding design engineer at Paradigm. But before that Guillermo (Vercel CEO) personally DM'd her to join the Vercel team. So we're going deep into…
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Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designer
Today's episode is with Kris Puckett who has led design at Mercury, Dropbox, and now as a design manager at Stripe. His journey is the perfect example of what it looks like to lean into this moment in time with AI. Some highlights: - Behind the scenes of Kris’s Epilogue app - How to create custom...
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Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon care
What does it look like to demonstrate uncommon care in the way you design and build an interface? Josh Puckett has has spent nearly two decades designing products like Wealthfront, Dropbox and helping dozens of startups. But recently he released Interface Craft which is a library of everything…
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Luis Ouriach - How are design systems changing?
Today's episode is with Luis Ouriach (https://x.com/disco_lu) whose role as a designer advocate at Figma means he's constantly helping teams navigate this rapidly changing landscape... especially when it comes to design systems. So we're going to do a deep dive into the trends he's noticing and...
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Cameron Worboys - Inside an AI-native design org
Today's episode with Cameron Worboys (Head of Product Design at Cash App) is an inside look at how an AI-native design org operates and the ways designers can thrive in this new world. We go deep into: The new archetypes of designers Cam's vision for bespoke software The #1 trait that Cam looks…
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Katie Dill - The new era of design at Stripe
A few weeks ago, Stripe launched their [new site (https://stripe.com/) and reminded everyone who the 🐐 of web design is… So I asked their Head of Design, Katie Dill (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-dill-79168b3) , to walk us through some of the tiny design decisions that make it so special.…
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Julien Martin - Why Amo's Design Hits Different
As software becomes easier to create than ever, what does it look like to truly differentiate with design? Today's episode with Julien Martin (https://x.com/julienmartin_?lang=en) is an attempt to answer that question. He was the Head of Design at Zenly, Snapchat, and Amo which is some of the…
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Tommy Smith - How side projects can land you a dream job
Today's episode is with Tommy Smith who recently landed a new role as a part of the Dive Talent Network. So we're doing a deep dive into what makes his portfolio so effective: Making his side project a first-class citizen Positioning himself as a new design engineer Adding personality by...
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Ryan Stephen - Creativity, Storytelling, and Prototyping Playful Ideas
Ryan Stephen (https://x.com/Ryan__Stephen) is a product designer at Microsoft, but the reason I wanted to interview him is because he's the man behind some of my favorite design experiments on Twitter. So in this episode Ryan gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his creative process, the tools in...
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Hannah Hearth - Design Careers in the Age of AI
Today's episode is with Hannah Hearth who recently became the Head of Product Design at Vercel. We talk about all of the changes that are happening in our industry and what it all means for designers. Everything from how AI tools are changing the practice of design to how this impact the way we...
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Karl Koch - Tips for New Design Engineers
Get 10% off Karl's Become a Design Engineer course: https://join.dive.club/karl Today’s episode is with Karl Koch (https://x.com/_kejk?lang=en) and it’s filled with practical tips for new design engineers looking to push past what AI gives you out of the box. We go deep into: - Adopting the…
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Why Rive is a big deal for the future of design
This episode is a deep dive into Rive—the engine powering experiences like Spotify Wrapped, next-gen car dashboards, and so much more. After hearing Luigi and Guido Rosso’s vision for the future of interactive software, I’m convinced it will be a big deal for designers 👀
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Best AI Coding Tools for Designers
One of the biggest parts of my design practice is knowing which tool to reach for when coding with AI. There are a lot of options and they’re changing every week 😅 So in this episode, I break down: 1. The mental model I use to think about different types of AI coding workflows 2. How that model...
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Xavier Jack - How To Vibe Code in 3D
Sometimes you open up a website and it's so good that you're left wondering... how the heck did they pull that off? In this episode the designer of the original Amie website, Xavier Jack (https://x.com/KMkota0), is going to give us a little tutorial of what it looks like to bring web experiences…
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Matt Sellers - What a top 1% design portfolio looks like
Last month the head of design at Lovable, Nad Chishtie, walked us through the portfolio of one of their recent design hires, Matt Sellers. So today's episode is a behind-the-scenes of what it actually takes to create a portfolio that gets you hired at one of today's top startups. He shares some...
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Stephen Haney - The 2026 AI Design Field Report (tools, process, and what's working)
There's been a heck of a debate around the future of coding and design tools lately... but what's actually happening inside of today's top teams? Where is all this headed and how does the future of our tools shape the role of a designer? Today's episode is with Stephen Haney...
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Dessn - Is this the future of AI prototyping?
Gab and Nim are the co-founders of a startup called Dessn which allows designers to prototype in the context of their production codebase (without any of the setup). So I asked them to hook it up to the Inflight repo and give me a little demo to see what’s possible. I’m pretty sold 👀
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Henry Modisett - Inside Perplexity's design culture
Someone asked me recently... if you had to join a design team, who would you want to work for? And my answer was easy... Perplexity So today's episode with Henry Modisett (https://x.com/henrymodis) (Perplexity's VP of Design) is a deep dive into what makes their design culture so special. Some...
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Designer's toolkit for Claude Code
Kyle Zantos is leading the new UX Tools Labs where he's responsible for figuring out what matters for new design tools and workflows. As a result, he's pretty quickly become my go-to source as I transition into more of a builder with AI. So this conversation is a deep dive into very specific...
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The trick to AI prototyping with your design system
We talk a lot about using AI at startups… But what are more established companies doing to scale AI prototyping? What are the best ways to use AI to prototype with your design system? That's what today's episode is all about because we're talking with Lewis Healey (https://x.com/Lewishealey) and...
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Enrico Tartarotti - How did one person design and build all of this?
Today's episode goes deep into all of the design details in a new video collaboration tool called Flask. But the reason I’m so inspired by this product goes far beyond the UI/UX… Flask is designed and built by one person—Enrico Tartarotti—who was a PM before this so his journey is the perfect...
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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.
You can find all of the episodes, key takeaways, and bonus resources here 👉 Dive.club
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