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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

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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

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

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)

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 ✌️