Dive Club 🤿

Pablo Stanley (https://www.pablostanley.com/) has built as many creative tools as anyone in our industry.

We're live (barely)

Today’s episode captures the messy creative process perhaps better than any of the ~300 before it…

It kinda feels like how design operates at Anthropic is consistently 3-6 months ahead of the rest of the industry.

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.

This week we are going behind the scenes of Config 2026 with Loredana Creeshan (Figma’s Chief Design Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanacrisan/

What does it look like when a designer with zero technical background commits to shipping something real?

This is a recording of a live session with me (https://x.com/ridd_design) and Kyle Zantos (https://www.kylezantos.com/) where I walk through my AI workflow and how I own the frontend as a designer.

Flora Guo (https://x.com/floguo) has one of the more impressive career trajectories of anyone I've interviewed on this show.

Today's episode is with Luis Ouriach (https://x.com/disco_lu) whose role as a designer advocate at Figma means he's constantly helping teams navigate this rapidly changing landscape... especially when it comes to design systems.

During Dive Club Live in NYC we got to hear from Claude Code’s lead designer, Meaghan Choi. She shared a demo of how the team at Anthropic uses Claude Code and there are a lot of practical takeaways 👀

Imagine going from IC to leading the Wealthsimple design team in a few short years…

Today's episode is with Kris Puckett (https://x.com/krispuckett) who has led design at Mercury, Dropbox, and now as a design manager at Stripe.

A couple of weeks ago I recorded my first ever episode in front of a live audience (at Ramp HQ in NYC) 🗽

⭐️ Check out Andy’s course - Craft at Speed https://join.dive.club/maven-aff-andy-madrick

Capital, early Cash App, and most recently, X, all have one designer in common — Brandon Jacoby (https://x.com/JacobyBrandon).

When it comes to tools and workflows, Brian Lovin (https://x.com/brian_lovin) is someone I pay *very* close attention to.

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.

If you're like me you gotta be curious... what's it like designing at OpenAI?

Over the last few months, Tommy Geoco (https://x.com/designertom) has went on site to study today’s top design teams (Vercel, Perplexity, Metalab, Ramp, etc.).

How do the best designers shape strategy at companies like Shopify?

Rafa Conde (https://x.com/rafahari) is a design engineer at Retro and one of the most creative designers I know. I still remember where I was when I first saw the video on his personal site (https://rafa.design/) 😂

Remember when the Carl Rivera (https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/carl-rivera) told us about his vision to create the new Shopify Product Design Studio?

What does it look like to demonstrate uncommon care in the way you design and build an interface?