Dive Club 🤿

This week's episode is a behind-the-scenes of the Inflight design journey. So I invited my co-founder Kyle Barber (designer at Tinder, Facebook, and Airchat) to share what it's actually like designing a startup today. Inflight Pitch Episode (the SPC pitch we mention in the fundraising section)

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 at the internal tooling system he built at Metalab.

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 component systems for AI - How AI is shaping the practice of design at Google - What we can learn from the top...

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 f...

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 Why Geoff plans to only hire 4 designers at Lightspark The design backstory behind Geoff’s viral Dialed...

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 looks for when evaluating a design portfolio How they built a shader orb system for 40 million voices What...

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 de...

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...

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...

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 w...

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...

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 most out of Claude Design - Storytelling and communication tactics for designers - How Nate views the land...

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 inside Dia. Some highlights: - Charlie’s tips for presenting design work - How to protect your special...

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 builders at Vercel - Pablo's approach to prototyping the new v0 - Behind the scenes of Pablo's custom de...

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 concepts, novel art directions, brand identities, and everything in between. Some highlights: - The journe...

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 process, how she uses the new Artifacts feature, how the shape of designer is evolving, and a lot more…...

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 go deep into his strategies for prompting, how to get better outputs from the models, and more 👇 Some...

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 express what’s already in your head (not outsource creativity to it). It’s a clarifying conversation a...

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 new prototyping.md skill workflow How Brett maintains control while building with AI Brett’s strategy fo...

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: Redesigning the Shopify checkout Ron’s unique research tactics for UberEats Building MTCHMKR from scratch...

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 one of my favorite thinkers when it comes to AI And Bradley Ziffer who is a design engineer at Ramp It’s...

⭐️ 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, ships frontend PRs, and uses AI tools like Cursor to own the final polish of user interfaces. In this...

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 build their own tools Tommy’s current tool stack for AI design work What signals show AI fluency in job...

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 with AI How to get people excited about your ideas How to make sure you don't overcook your app a lot m...

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 :) Some highlights: - Finding ways to introduce delight - How to make users feel something - The po...