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Dive Club 🤿

Dive Club 🤿

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

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Dive Club 🤿 episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Dive Club 🤿 for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Dive Club 🤿 episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

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 🐦 twitter.com/joindiveclub

Now you can join advanced courses taught by the top designers to help you take a huge leap forward in your career 💪

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Dive Club 🤿 - Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas
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10/23/24 • 50 min

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 Artifacts
  • New mental models for designing AI products
  • The way designers shape strategy at Anthropic
  • How to master the dark art of prompting as a designer
  • The future of language as the dominant interface for AI
  • Designing for infinite degrees of freedom vs. user journeys
  • How Joel designed his interview process at Airtable/Anthropic
  • a lot more...
  • The CEO of Anthropic (Dario Amodei)’s essay: Machines of Loving Grace
  • A new 3 minute video showing how the team built Claude Artifacts
  • Chad Thornton was the Head of Design at Airtable
  • Everett Katigbak is the Brand Creative Director at Anthropic
  • Kim Bost is the design leader Joel collaborates with a lot
  • Joel mentioned Jason Yuan’s interview about designing AI products with soul

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Dive Club 🤿 - Joey Banks - Designing your career path
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11/20/24 • 52 min

A little over a year ago, Joey Banks and I were DM’ing each other in Slack about leaving our W-2 jobs and going independent.

So this week’s episode is a reflection on his journey working for himself and it’s as human and relatable as any conversation I’ve ever had on this show. We go deep into:

  • Managing your pipeline of clients
  • Creating a personal knowledge system in Notion
  • Finding companionship as an independent designer
  • Structuring your schedule and maintaining momentum
  • Communicating your services and pricing yourself effectively
  • Dealing with uncertainty and all of the unknowns in your first year
  • a lot more
  • Get a special offer on Joey’s “Level Up with Figma” course
  • Joey’s Baseline website and newsletter
  • Paul Millerd’s “Pathless Path” book and his episode on Lenny’s podcast
  • Joey mentioned Oliur’s episode as one of his favorite YouTube creators
  • He also mentioned Stephen Robles YouTube channel
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Dive Club 🤿 - Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a designer
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08/29/24 • 66 min

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)
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Dive Club 🤿 - Marco Cornacchia - The man who broke design Twitter
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11/30/23 • 47 min

In 2022, Marco Cornacchia was coming off of a failed startup and started working on his new portfolio. Little did he know this project would land him a role as the founding designer at Diagram, lay the foundation for design Twitter’s most viral website, and spawn a talk at Webflow’s conference 🤯 In this episode, Marco shares how he (accidentally) created a new trend of animated bento grids. And we also get a behind the scenes of what it was like being the founding designer of Diagram and ultimately getting acquired by Figma. If you’re interested in designing at a startup then you’ll love this episode ✌️

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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...

Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿

🌐 dive.club 🐦 twitter.com/joindiveclub

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Dive Club 🤿 - Become a 10x startup designer 💡
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12/09/24 • 9 min

Many of my favorite episodes are when we get to hear from the earliest designers at companies like Linear, Perplexity, Ramp, Facebook, etc.

So this episode pulls out the key insights so you can learn what it takes to thrive as a startup designer:

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Dive Club 🤿 - Dan Mall - What designers get wrong about design systems
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08/31/23 • 54 min

If you’re familiar at all with design systems then I definitely don’t need to introduce you to Dan Mall. He’s as OG as it gets.

In this Deep Dive, Dan shares his take on Figma variables, where design systems are headed in the coming years, and a lot more...

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Dive Club 🤿 - Luis Ouriach - Strategies for using variables in Figma
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08/10/23 • 43 min

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

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Dive Club 🤿 - Time to rethink design systems 💡
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11/18/24 • 8 min

The pendulum has swung too far with design systems. Somehow they’ve become synonymous with scale. But I believe they’re the perfect first step for startups. So this episode looks at stories from Perplexity and Cron to reframe design systems as the key to speed in the early days.

Henry Modisett (Head of Design at Perplexity): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/henry-modisett

Raphael Schaad (founder of Cron / Notion Calendar): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/raphael-schaad

Brad Frost (author of Atomic Design): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/brad-frost

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FAQ

How many episodes does Dive Club 🤿 have?

Dive Club 🤿 currently has 92 episodes available.

What topics does Dive Club 🤿 cover?

The podcast is about Design, Podcasts, Technology and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Dive Club 🤿?

The episode title 'Bonus Episode: Helen Zhou - How designers can get the most out of AI tools' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Dive Club 🤿?

The average episode length on Dive Club 🤿 is 45 minutes.

How often are episodes of Dive Club 🤿 released?

Episodes of Dive Club 🤿 are typically released every 6 days, 21 hours.

When was the first episode of Dive Club 🤿?

The first episode of Dive Club 🤿 was released on May 4, 2023.

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