Dive Club 🤿

Ridd
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Dive Club 🤿

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. 4 brand strategy tips from Smith & Diction

    3 DAYS AGO

    4 brand strategy tips from Smith & Diction

    When comes to brand design, Mike and Cara from Smith & Diction are pretty much top of the game (you might recognize them as the ones who did the brand identity for Perplexity). During our interview, it didn't take me long to realize that these two have more hacks and mental models for creativity than just about anyone I’ve met. So here are a few of my favorites. Watch the full episode with Smith & Diction here: https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/smith-diction

    7 min
  2. Thiago Costa - Cultivating taste as a designer

    FEB 21

    Thiago Costa - Cultivating taste as a designer

    If you asked me “who has the best taste in design right now?” one of the first people I’d mention is Thiago Costa. His product Fey is in the S-tier of design and I’ve studied his visual techniques for many years. Finally, after over a 12 months of pestering he agreed to share his secrets in a interview 🙌 We go deep into: Mastering the finer details of craftPutting AI at the heart of the new Fey 2.0Where Thiago draws inspiration outside of UIWhat it looks like to have a “heightened awareness”How Thiago evolved the Fey aesthetic from 1.0 to 2.0Specific visual techniques for making your UI more lifelikea lot more Caravaggio is the painter who Thiago calls the “master of light”The Local Project interior design channel on YouTube

    58 min
  3. Ammaar Reshi - Unlocking AI’s creative potential

    FEB 14

    Ammaar Reshi - Unlocking AI’s creative potential

    Today we get to hear from Ammaar Reshi who is the Head of Design at ElevenLabs—the AI audio platform that has come up multiple times in past episodes. So a big focus of this conversation is learning what it's like designing an AI-native product. We go deep into topics like: The backstory of Ammaar’s viral AI experimentsPredictions for the future of voice as an interfaceWhat it’s like collaborating with an research teamHow he’s designing novel interaction patterns for AIWhat Ammaar looks for when hiring startup designersWhat it’s like designing at multiple hyper growth startupsa lot more Thread of all Ammaar’s AI experiments (including the viral book and podcast app)Ammaar mentioned chatting with Nate Parrott from the Browser CompanyAmmaar mentions the Rabbit hardware productAmmaar mentions collaborating with his friend Pietro

    54 min
  4. Design “handoff” is changing forever 💡

    FEB 11

    Design “handoff” is changing forever 💡

    How do designers from today’s top teams collaborate with engineers? After many interviews I'm starting to notice a trend… The highest functioning product teams throw away a lot of code and it’s a good model for what the new “handoff” process will look like. So this video highlights how it works at teams like Figma, Vercel, Perplexity, Airbnb, and more. Jenny Wen (OG designer of Figjam now at Anthropic)Teo Connor (VP of Design at Airbnb)John Pham (former design engineer at Vercel)Vincent van der Meulen (design engineer at Figma)Balint Orosz (cofounder of Craft Docs)Derek Briggs (Design + Code at Hypermode)Anthony Menecola (Staff designer at Shopify)Ammaar Reshi (Head of Design at ElevenLabs — episode coming soon)

    11 min
  5. Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers

    FEB 7

    Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers

    This week's episode is with Chris Abad who has led design teams at companies like Google, Square and Dropbox so needless to say he's given a lot of design presentations over his 20+ year career. So this conversation is a deep dive into storytelling and everything you can do as a designer to effectively share your vision and persuade stakeholders. He shares every step of his process including a ton of practical tactics like: Strategies for designing a great deckHow to set up Q&A for success with executivesHis new secret weapon software tool for storytellingStrategies for navigating pushback from stakeholdersHow to frame the “Peak Moment” of your presentationHow he coaches designers to leverage storytelling in their portfolioa lot more⭐ Don’t forget you can also save $100 on Chris’s Design Storytelling course using the code DIVECLUB Chris mentions the importance of the Story10x bookIA Presenter is the new tool Chris uses for presentationsRidd uses SuperWhisper for transcriptions

    50 min
  6. How to be great at systems thinking 💡

    FEB 4

    How to be great at systems thinking 💡

    Systems thinking is often mentioned as the #1 trait teams are looking for in designers. But what does it look like to be great at it? This episode answers that question by highlighting stories from Notion, Anthropic, and more 👇

    10 min
  7. Anthony Menecola - Insights from a staff designer at Shopify

    JAN 31

    Anthony Menecola - Insights from a staff designer at Shopify

    This week's episode is with Anthony Menecola who is a longtime staff product designer at Shopify so we’re going to do a deep dive into ways you can make a bigger impact at your company as an IC. One of the big themes of this episode is Anthony’s journey becoming more technical and contributing to the Shopify code base so if you’re interested in building your ideas I think you’ll get a lot out of this one. We also talk about: The archetypes of staff designers at ShopifyWhat it takes to create an impactful proposalWays to build strategic relationships at ShopifyHow to strategically circulate your design ideasThe art of sharing effective async video updatesHow Anthony identifies future-facing ideas to explorea lot more Anthony’s website and TwitterThe Shop app

    44 min
  8. Making big ideas happen with design 💡

    JAN 28

    Making big ideas happen with design 💡

    When I say high stakes design project, what comes to mind? How about Ryan Scott redesigning the Airbnb checkout flow right before a  $3.5 billion IPO? Now THAT is a big time project… So this episode is all about tactics you can use to make big ideas happen at your company (even as an IC). And if you want to go even deeper you can use these links to get $100 off Ryan Scott’s top rated Maven courses 👇 1️⃣ Describing the ROI of Design (https://join.dive.club/ryan-scott-roi-course) 2️⃣ PM Masterclass for Designers (https://join.dive.club/ryan-pm-masterclass-course) Ryan Scott (design lead at Airbnb + DoorDash)Tyler Angert (1st designer at Replit and founder of Patina Systems)

    11 min
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About

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
    113
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dive
  • Show Website
    Dive Club 🤿

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