Dive Club 🤿

If you're looking to level up how you use variables in Figma then this episode is for you ✌️ Luis goes deep into strategies based on team size, provides naming guidance, and even breaks down how he thinks about structuring libraries with variables in Figma. Lastly, Luis shares a behind-the-scenes of his journey as a designer advocate and even gives a unique prediction for how AI will take shape inside of Figma.

Don't forget to follow Luis on Twitter and check out his awesome files in the Figma community

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 process
• What we can learn from Figjam’s product strategy
• Jenny’s framework for adding delight to a product
• How to create visuals that stand out in a sea of confetti animations
• Strategies for facilitating live workshops in Figjam
• What Jenny looks for in design candidates
• Jenny’s vision for the future of Figjam

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 speed, storytelling, prototyping and a lot more...

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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 CRIT
• Ways to unlock your credibility as a designer
• How to mitigate risk when presenting your ideas
• What it takes to speak the language of the business
• Types of “PM-y” questions that designers should be asking
• How Ryan led a massive redesign of the Airbnb booking flow
• The right (and wrong) way to make a case for investing in UX debt
• How to talk about your work in a way that resonates with non-designers
• a lot more
• Get $100 off of Ryan’s course “Describing the ROI of design”
• Ryan’s case study on redesigning the Airbnb checkout flow
• Past interview with Alex Schleifer (Chief Design Officer at Airbnb)