Dive Club 🤿

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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

  1. Nad Chishtie - How to get hired as a designer at Lovable

    6D AGO

    Nad Chishtie - How to get hired as a designer at Lovable

    As one of the fastest growing companies in the world, Lovable is scaling their design team by tapping into the [Dive Talent Network](https://www.dive.club/talent-network). So I interviewed their Head of Design, [Nad Chishtie](https://x.com/nadonomy), to learn everything I can about how to get hired as a designer at Lovable. Some highlights: - A breakdown of a recent design hire’s portfolio - How to avoid getting your portfolio screened out - How to crush the later stages of the hiring process - How you can win Nad over with side projects alone - What to do if you’re not confident in your visual skills - The 2 things Nad cares most about when hiring designers - Spotify’s cross-functional squad model (https://medium.com/found-ation/agile-team-organization-a-deep-dive-on-the-spotify-model-f5b32dfc37dd) - Matt’s portfolio (designer hired through Dive Talent Network) (https://www.lfs.gd/)

    59 min
  2. Roman Tesliuk - From side projects to leading web design at Eleven Labs

    DEC 15

    Roman Tesliuk - From side projects to leading web design at Eleven Labs

    What does it look like to own web design for one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world? And how do you get that opportunity if you don’t have companies like Apple or Airbnb on your resumé? That’s what this episode with [Roman Tesliuk](https://x.com/RomaTesla) is all about. He walks us through the Eleven Labs Figma and talks about the tiniest of design decisions all the way to how he’s building a scalable website system. We also go deep into Roman's side projects and all of the ways he's becoming a builder with AI 💪 Roman’s App Stacks project - https://appstacks.club/ and portfolio site - https://pixelwrld.co/

    55 min
  3. Sneak peek of MDS’s creative process

    DEC 8

    Sneak peek of MDS’s creative process

    I’ve probably learned more about visual design from MDS than anyone in the design community. So I wanted to go deep into the creative process behind the all-new Shift Nudge website to see how he explores visual ideas. He takes us through his Figma file that is full of very good ideas that didn't ship. And he even shows us how he built his own Mosaic tool in v0 which became the core motif of the site. So if you're interested in seeing the windy creative process behind one of the truly great designers today then I think you're going to enjoy this one.

    48 min
  4. Steve Ruiz - Is the canvas the future for AI?

    DEC 1

    Steve Ruiz - Is the canvas the future for AI?

    I get shown a lot of tool demos and one thing is clear… Canvas-based UX will play a pivotal role in how we interface with AI. It’s a big reason why Figma just bought Weavy 👀 So I interviewed Steve Ruiz who is the founder of tldraw where he's spent over 3 years and $5 million dollars building the perfect canvas (which powers many of the startups that we've studied on this show). Some highlights: Why he’s been obsessing over fairiesSteve’s principles for good tool designHow he was able to learn to code so quicklyWhat Steve’s learned through his AI experimentsHow he’s thinking about the future of agentic designa lot more

    1h 3m
  5. Emily Campbell - AI UX Deep Dive

    NOV 24

    Emily Campbell - AI UX Deep Dive

    In one of the most popular episodes yet, Vitaly Friedman talked about what’s next for AI design patterns (https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/vitaly-friedman). In that episode he frequently referenced Shape of AIl (https://www.shapeof.ai/) which is an incredible database of AI design patterns. So I wanted to get to the source and go deep with the creator Emily Campbell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmiecampbell/) to learn how to design great AI experiences. Because she’s studied AI products more than just about anyone I’ve ever seen 👀 Some of my favorite highlights: - Ways to build trust in agentic products - Her favorite patterns for enhancing prompts - The traits she looks for when hiring AI designers - + a lot more - Shape of AI (https://www.shapeof.ai/) (her database of patterns) - Poke app (https://x.com/interaction/status/1965093198482866317/video/1) from Interaction

    43 min
  6. Geoffrey Litt - The Future of Malleable Software

    NOV 14

    Geoffrey Litt - The Future of Malleable Software

    AI is fundamentally shifting the way we think about digital products and the core deliverables that we're bringing to the table as designers. So I asked Geoffrey Litt (https://x.com/geoffreylitt) (Design Engineer at Notion) to share his vision for the future of malleable software and AI system design. Here’s some highlights: - The keys to effective system design - Geoffrey’s workflow for “working like a surgeon” - Why too many products become “nightmare bicycles” - The principles of malleable software vs. disposable software - Why version control is the most important AI interaction problem - Inside Geoffrey’s malleable software experiments at Ink & Switch - + a lot more -[Ink & Switch is the research lab (https://www.inkandswitch.com/) - Changing Minds by Seymour Papert (https://worrydream.com/refs/Papert_1980_-_Mindstorms,_1st_ed.pdf) - Geoffrey’s nightmare bicycle article (https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/03/03/the-nightmare-bicycle) - Don Norman’s Living with Complexity (https://www.amazon.com/Living-Complexity-Press-Donald-Norman/dp/0262014866) - Spell Burst by Tyler Angert (https://spellburstllm.github.io/) - A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construction-Environmental/dp/0195019199) - Patchwork - Geoffrey’s collaboration environment at Ink & Switch (https://www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/notebook/) ⭐️ You can use the code DIVECLUB to get 20% off your first month of Lovable Pro 1!

    57 min
  7. Ryan Scott - The skills that get designers promoted

    NOV 7

    Ryan Scott - The skills that get designers promoted

    Craft gets you hired. But business impact gets you promoted. So this week’s episode with [Ryan Scott](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanscottcreative/) is a deep dive into how designers can think strategically about their career. He shares a ton of lessons from his [PM Masterclass for designers](https://join.dive.club/ryan-scott-pm-masterclass-affiliate): - What it looks like to grow your product muscles - The right (and wrong) ways to get buy-in for your ideas - Strategies for making data a part of your design practice - Ways to spot new strategic opportunities for your company - How to position your work to be compelling to a business leader - What Ryan learned making big ideas happen at Airbnb and Doordash - + a lot more ⭐️ Get $100 off Ryan’s course when you us the code DIVECLUB - Andy Budd’s talk in Berlin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYH6Z3LmhU) - Builder.io (http://builder.io/) mentioned as AI tool for engineers - booking.com (http://booking.com/) vs Airbnb competitive positioning example

    58 min
  8. Designing the first ever tabletop game console

    OCT 31

    Designing the first ever tabletop game console

    Board (https://board.fun/) has taken over social social media (and for good reason). It’s one of the most obvious yet innovative products I’ve ever seen. So as soon as Kevin Twohy (https://x.com/kevintwohy) shared a preview with me I knew we had to do an interview to get the behind-the-scenes (spoiler: I did buy it lol). So this episode is a deep dive into his design process for the first ever tabletop game console: - What he learned about prototyping hardware products - How they figured out the “brand moves” for Board - How Kevin makes the most of AI tools - + a lot more Kevin referenced Mike and Chara Smith’s episode talking about “brand moves” multiple times - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhxx6yK2J08&t=392s

    41 min
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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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  • Creator
    Ridd
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    173
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dive
  • Show Website
    Dive Club 🤿

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