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 designers at Google- What skills...

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 flags from hiring managers- How the best teams are iterating on the hiring process- Examples of portfolios getting hired...

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 changeWhat the “parking spot” phase of software looks likeWhy Geoff plans to only hire 4 designers at LightsparkThe design backstory behind Geoff’s viral Dialed gameHow Geoff brings consumer principles into enterprise design＋ a lot more

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 toolsWhy Nev is prioritizing specialists over generalistsWhat Nev looks for when evaluating a design portfolioHow they built a shader orb system for 40 million voicesWhat happens when non-designers are designing with AIHow the team is making their design system agent-nativea lot more

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 design teams around personas not features- The traits of the designers making the biggest impact at OpenAI<...

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- How he landed his first design job at 12 years old in Argent...

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 the right UX for AI- How John uses agents to streamline his Figma work<...

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 with AIPatrick’s vision for agent-native design handoffHow Patrick built a canvas to organize prototypesThe design principles that guide how the agent prototypesHow Patrick built a system to p...

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 with some specific tactics you can add to your practice.Some highlights:- 5 use cases for designing with HTML doc...

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 landscape for design tooling today- How “weatherman mode” turned into a killer voice mode...

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 sauce as a designer- What makes Apple’s decision-making culture unique- The differences...

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 design tools- What historic artists teach us about AI and creativity- How Pablo gets...

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 journey of designing Dot- Why Jason doesn’t believe in user research- The surprising sources Jason uses for design inspo...

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…Some highlights:- Designing experiences that don’t have UIs- How Meaghan collaborates with Claude Tag...

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 highlights:Why Meng built his own local Notion toolWhy Meng writes 0% of his own...

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 about taste, tools, and the future of design 👇Some highlights:- Designing systems not screens- Loredana’s mental model for...

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 designBrett’s new prototyping.md skill workflowHow Brett maintains control while building with AIBrett’s strategy for adding sound design to GatherWhen Brett relies on Figma vs. explores directly in codea lot more

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 checkoutRon’s unique research tactics for UberEatsBuilding MTCHMKR from scratch in LovableNavigating the job market as a design leadera lot more