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
Sam Peitz - The intersection of art and product
Andrei Herasimchuk - The 1st designer at Adobe
Diego Zaks - Designing the fastest growing startup ever
Phi Hoang - Creativity, Midjourney, and the future of brand design
Joey Banks - Designing your career path
Dessn - The missing tool for product designers
Meng To - How to build your ideas with AI
Soleio - The rise of designers who ship
Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas
Teo Connor - How Airbnb innovates with design
Dan Moreno - Challenging the status quo as a designer
Jason Yuan - Going beyond craft to design with soul
Mariana Castilho - Evolving from designer to builder
Janum Trivedi - What makes a software product feel great
Ben Blumenrose - Investing in the next wave of design founders
Henry Modisett - Designing a unicorn AI startup from nothing
Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a designer
Oliur - Grow your personal brand and get noticed as a designer
Maheen Sohail - Navigating ambiguity in AI design
George Kedenburg - Pushing past the pixels
Colin Dunn - What it takes to design a breakthrough AI product
Nate Parrott - Going from engineer to founding designer of Arc
Dan LaCivita - A glimpse of the future of design tooling
Gavin Nelson - Prototyping, interaction design, and learning SwiftUI
Vincent van der Meuelen - The story of Figma’s big AI pivot
Jordan Singer - The future of AI in Figma
Kathy Zheng - How to make the jump to staff designer
Alex Cornell - Mastering the art of influence
Maggie Appleton - Becoming an AI-native designer
Ian Wharton - The secret to great storytelling
Amy Lima - How to turn a layoff into a dream job
Julius Tarng - Dissolving the line between design and engineering
Raphael Schaad - Designing a startup from 0 to acquisition
Alex Schleifer - How design at Airbnb creates a culture of craft at scale
Noam Segal - Tools and tactics for modern user research
Helen Tran - Designing with a founder mindset
Hunter Hammonds - Positioning pt. 2: How to scale to $1M+
Nick Pattison - Positioning pt. 1: How to make $15k/week
Dennis Müller - Designing with soul
Vercel’s Glenn Hitchcock & John Pham - Design engineering deep dive
Michael Wandelmaier - Envisioning the art of the possible
Adam Mura - How to design and build websites faster with AI
Rich Arnold - Becoming a creative problem solver
Brad Frost - The new frontier of design systems
Gabe Valdivia - Storytelling, freelancing, and designing 0 to 1
Andy Allen - What’s wrong with software design today
Jenny Wen - The art of designing for delight
Soleio - What makes a truly great software designer
Kevin Wong - How design works at Webflow
Ryo Lu - Systems thinking for product designers
Molly Hellmuth - Building design systems with variables in Figma
Derek Briggs - Creating a culture of craft
Tommy Geoco - How designers can bring their ideas to life
Kevin Twohy - How to build an independent design practice
Lauren LoPrete - Inside design systems at Dropbox and Cash App
Kate Syuma - Designing with a growth mindset
Soren Iverson - Training your creative muscles
Kathryn Gonzalez - Defining the visual language for DoorDash
Figma prototyping masterclass (from the team who designed it)
Marco Cornacchia - The man who broke design Twitter
How to level up as an IC (feat. Steph Engle, Maheen Sohail & Brian Lovin)
James McDonald - Staying ahead of web design trends
Brian Lovin - Confessions of a two-time design founder
David Hoang - How to prepare for design in 2025
Erik Kennedy - Landing page techniques used by the pros
How Loom design went 0 to 1 on their new AI product
Perry Wang - How to land your dream role as a Junior Designer
Adrien Griveau - Lessons from the founding designer at Linear
Yuan Wang - Leading high-stakes design presentations
Grace Walker - How to avoid drowning in your first year freelancing
Dan Mall - What designers get wrong about design systems
Anthony Hobday - Mastering the pillars of great visual design
Grace Ling - Standing out in today's job market
Luis Ouriach - Strategies for using variables in Figma
Steph Golik - Going from designer to founder
Fons Mans - How to design brands and visuals that stand out
Charli Marie - Lessons in career growth and creativity
Bonnie Kate Wolf - Growing a freelance business as an icon designer
Dan Hollick - Framer, AI, and designing for Jay-Z
Femke - Product strategy and selling your ideas
Mia Blume - Increasing your influence as a designer
Fonz Morris - How to drive business impact
Jorn van Dijk — Framer + AI's impact on Design
Steph Engle — Storytelling + design presentations
Joey Banks — Design systems + Figma strategies
Don’t trust the design process 💡
Become a 10x startup designer 💡
Attacking ambiguity with design
Storytelling masterclass for designers 💡
Time to rethink design systems 💡
7 mental models for designing AI products 💡
How Airbnb is bringing soul back to their design 💡
8 key takeaways from season 4
Bonus Episode: Helen Zhou - How designers can get the most out of AI tools
