

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
Episodes


Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designer

Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise design

Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAI

Evil Rabbit - The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercel

John Bai - The Grok Bot design journey

Patrick Morgan - Building a custom prototyping playground

Kyle Zantos - Our AI design workflows have changed (again)

Nate Parrott - How a Side Project Became Claude Design
Claude Design serves as a transformative tool for rapid prototyping and visual communication, enabling designers to bridge the gap between static concepts and interactive software. By leveraging AI to generate HTML-based artifacts, designers can iterate on layouts, color schemes, and animations at the speed of thought,...

Charlie Deets - Designing the internet computer
Designers must transcend basic execution by focusing on simplicity, clarity, and intentionality to distinguish good products from great ones. In an era where AI and advanced tools democratize technical implementation, a designer’s unique value lies in their ability to distill complex workflows into intuitive, user-cent...

Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world
The integration of AI agents into design workflows is fundamentally shifting the creative process from manual execution to strategic orchestration. Designers now face an existential tension: while AI tools like V0 and custom agents drastically accelerate productivity and enable complex technical exploration, they risk ...

Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"
Building AI products requires a shift from reactive feature-adding to the distillation of human truth. Jason Yuan’s creative process for Hivemind centers on finding the most true and simple expression of an idea, moving away from market-driven demand for personal assistants toward a collective, truth-seeking intelligen...

Meaghan Choi - Designing Claude Code (and what's coming next)
Designing for AI-driven products like Claude Code requires a fundamental shift from traditional pixel-perfect execution to shaping mental models and product strategy. Meaghan Choi, design lead for Claude Code at Anthropic, highlights how AI agents like "Claude Tag" transform workflows by acting as a shared, proactive o...

Meng To - Codex superpowers for designers
Designers must evolve beyond chasing baseline AI trends—such as purple gradients and generic fonts—to avoid producing "AI slop." Maintaining a competitive edge requires deep personal knowledge, leveraging local files, and utilizing specific frameworks like design.md to guide AI models. Meng To, a designer and builder, ...

Loredana Crisan - Figma's big bets for the future of AI design
AI serves as a powerful instrument for expanding creative imagination, yet the responsibility for infusing "soul" and human intuition into design remains firmly with the creator. As design evolves from crafting static screens to building complex, non-deterministic systems, professionals must cultivate technical range a...

Brett Williams - How a Visual Designer Became a Builder
Building software as a non-technical designer is now accessible through AI, transforming the development process from a daunting technical hurdle into a creative, iterative journey. Brett Williams, a veteran visual designer, demonstrates this shift by building a polished Mac app, Gather, using Claude to bridge the gap ...

Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leader
Design leadership in the era of artificial intelligence requires a shift toward "vibe coding" and hands-on product building. By leveraging AI tools like Cursor and Lovable, designers can rapidly prototype and validate ideas, effectively bypassing traditional, slow-moving development cycles. Empathy remains the bedrock ...

How Anthropic, Every, & Ramp design with AI
Design and engineering workflows are undergoing a fundamental shift as AI tools enable designers to interact directly with production codebases. This transformation requires moving beyond traditional silos, allowing designers to influence products by shipping code while simultaneously offloading routine tasks to AI. Tr...

Andy Madrick - Why AI changed design handoff forever
AI is fundamentally reshaping design workflows by enabling designers to move beyond static Figma mockups into production-ready code. By leveraging LLMs and coding tools like Cursor, designers can now scaffold features, iterate on animations, and handle front-end tasks, effectively bridging the gap between design and en...

Tommy Geoco - The state of the design industry right now
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