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Dive Club 🤿

Ridd

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Frequency: 1 episode/13d. Total Eps: 215

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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🇨🇦 Canada - design
20/08/2026
#50
🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
20/08/2026
#83
🇺🇸 USA - design
20/08/2026
#31
🇨🇦 Canada - design
19/08/2026
#33
🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
19/08/2026
#79
🇺🇸 USA - design
19/08/2026
#31
🇨🇦 Canada - design
18/08/2026
#14
🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
18/08/2026
#71
🇺🇸 USA - design
18/08/2026
#69
🇫🇷 France - design
18/08/2026
#94

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http://dive.club
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https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/henry-modisett
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https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/alex-cornell
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianspalter/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/obrienchristian/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmiecampbell/
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http://twitter.com/joindiveclub
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https://twitter.com/glennui
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https://twitter.com/JohnPhamous
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Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a designer

Season 7 · Episode 69

Thursday, August 29, 2024 • Duration 01:06:54

This week's episode is with Ryan Scott who was an early designer at Doordash and then spent years as a design lead at Airbnb. Nowadays Ryan teaches hundreds of designers ranging from seniors to VPs how to make a bigger impact at your company.

This episode is jam-packed with insights about:

What it’s like presenting at Airbnb CRIT
Ways to unlock your credibility as a designer
How to mitigate risk when presenting your ideas
What it takes to speak the language of the business
Types of “PM-y” questions that designers should be asking
How Ryan led a massive redesign of the Airbnb booking flow
The right (and wrong) way to make a case for investing in UX debt
How to talk about your work in a way that resonates with non-designers
a lot more

Get $100 off of Ryan’s course “Describing the ROI of design”
Ryan’s case study on redesigning the Airbnb checkout flow
Past interview with Alex Schleifer (Chief Design Officer at Airbnb)

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Oliur - Grow your personal brand and get noticed as a designer

Season 7 · Episode 68

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 • Duration 58:00

Investing in my personal brand has been the best investment I’ve ever made in my career. So I wanted to find the perfect designer to give a personal branding masterclass and I think it’s Oliur.

He’s built a massive audience across YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. and he shares his hard-earned knowledge in this episode:

Oliur’s keys to growing on social media
Different ways to create leverage in your career
How he (accidentally) landed a billion-dollar client
How you can get more confident putting yourself out there
Specific ways to build meaningful connections with other designers
What designers need to know to get better at marketing themselves
a lot more

Oliur cites James McDonald as an example of someone sharing their work
Oliur’s iPhone presets and high income streams videos
We talk about his friend Ali Abdaal (YouTuber, Podcaster, NYT bestseller)
Jason Levin’s iMessage screenshot of Travis Scott performing
I referenced Jack Butcher’s “this is pointless” graph
Dan Petty’s “That Marker Pack”
The old Audience Building course on Maven (RIP)
Turkish designer Oguz (Oliur talked about the power of his aesthetic)
Gabe Valdivia’s new app Almanac that he built with Cursor

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Kathy Zheng - How to make the jump to staff designer

Season 6 · Episode 59

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 • Duration 49:22

This week’s episode is with Kathy Zheng who is currently the Head of design at a Web3 protocol called Optimism. But before that she was the first designer at Patreon and went on to spend over 6 years at Github.

So the goal of this conversation is to look at how Kathy grew as a designer while at Github and identify the specific milestones on her journey to reaching senior and eventually staff designer.

We get into the weeds about:

How the role of staff and senior designers differ
The traits shared by the best designers at Github
How to give your ideas a chance to become memes
How to avoid conversational spinout on your project
How to identify opportunities using systems thinking
How Kathy is growing as a design leader at Optimism
Specific techniques for storytelling and presenting ideas

Some of the people mentioned in this episode:

Max Schoening (former Head of design at Github)
Brian Lovin (bookmarking repo project)
Kat Fikui (coworker at Github whose .readme we mentioned)
Connor Sears (old manager at Github)
Jack Conte (Cofounder of Patreon)

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Alex Cornell - Mastering the art of influence

Season 6 · Episode 58

Thursday, June 20, 2024 • Duration 54:32

When you think about storytelling in design... Alex Cornell is often the person that comes to mind. And that's a big reason why he's one of the most requested guests on the show. So this episode is a deep dive into the finer details of communication. We talk about:

The story behind his startup Cocoon
How Alex leverages his background in video
Alex’s precision and obsession with language
Why Alex left linear to work on generative AI at Meta
Why getting buy-in for your ideas is kind of like a math proof
Behind-the-scenes of the wild videos Alex made at Facebook
Lessons learned designing the Substack and Linear mobile apps
The mental models Alex uses to construct compelling narratives
a lot more

Alex’s startup Cocoon
Alex’s famous Chevron vs. 3 Dot video from Facebook
Alex’s favorite monospace font is Jet Brains and his favorite serif font is Tiempos
Klim is Alex’s favorite type foundry
We discussed the dual-panel approach in the Amie mobile app

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Maggie Appleton - Becoming an AI-native designer

Season 6 · Episode 57

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 • Duration 52:53

This week’s episode with Maggie Appleton is a deep dive into designing for AI products and LLMs. Maggie shares about her experience as the first designer at Elicit (an AI assistant for research papers) and all of the unique challenges surrounding helping users interface with LLMs.
We also go deep into:
- How Maggie’s grown as a frontend developer
- Why Maggie feels like she’s in a short-run limbo
- Strategies for improving your technical literacy
- How writing online has impacted Maggie’s career
- The AI-native tools that Maggie is drawing inspiration from
- How advancements in AI will redefine her role as a designer
- How Maggie’s new understanding of LLMs is shaping the way she designs
- Why Maggie is more interested in the cognitive applications of AI rather than generative AI

Maggie is currently leading design at Elicit (they’re hiring)
“How Trello is different” is where Joel Spolsky explains the differences between horizontal and vertical software
OpenAI’s introduction of ChatGPT-4o
We talked about the product tldraw
The expanding dark forest and generative AI: Maggie’s talk about the possible futures of flooding the web with AI-generated content
Episode with Soleio where he talks about looking for “time to proficiency” in design candidates

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Ian Wharton - The secret to great storytelling

Season 6 · Episode 56

Thursday, June 6, 2024 • Duration 52:53

Remember how Michael Wandelmeier told us Metalab hired a storytelling coach? Well that coach is Ian Wharton. He’s an Apple Design Award winner, CEO of Aide Health, and he teaches storytelling techniques to teams like Dyson, BBC, Huge, etc.

So this episode breaks down the key storytelling concepts that he shares in his course Sell the Idea. We talk about the importance of the inciting incident, how to empower others to share your ideas, and a lot more…

But he also presents some compelling ideas about why designers are the most suited people to start companies that solve societal level challenges. All you need is a bias toward action. So if you’ve been considering starting your own thing, there’s a lot we can learn from Ian’s journey as a design founder.

Ian’s course Sell the Idea (use the code RIDD at checkout for 30% off)
Ian’s personal website
Ian’s business Aide Health
Mackinnon and Saunders (the stop motion company Ian worked with)

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Amy Lima - How to turn a layoff into a dream job

Season 6 · Episode 55

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 • Duration 52:29

~6 months ago Amy Lima was laid off and has been preparing for this episode ever since. So in this interview she gives us an inside look at her process for landing a dream role at Duolingo. If you’re looking for your next role then this conversation is quite the playbook. She has the job hunt process down to a science.

Some topics covered:

Avoiding burnout amidst the chaos
How Amy negotiated her Duolingo offer
Amy’s advice to proactively prepare for a layoff
The ways Amy iterated on her portfolio presentation
How Amy’s career coach shaped her interview strategy
Some hard lessons learned during her job hunt process
How Amy measured everything in her application process
a lot more

Show notes:

Amy’s layoff announcement post
Career Compass
Charlotte Burns (Amy’s job hunt coach)
Levels (transparency database + salary negotiation tools)
Amy’s job announcement post

Sponsors:

Framer: How I build websites
Jitter: How I animate my designs
Raycast: How I do everything on my computer

Julius Tarng - Dissolving the line between design and engineering

Season 6 · Episode 54

Thursday, May 30, 2024 • Duration 50:02

Julius Tarng is the ultimate generalist designer.
- He started the design tools team at Facebook where he made a massive impact on products like Origami.
- He then freelanced as a design engineer for companies like Felt, Anthropic, and even prototyped some of the early AI features for the Arc browser.
- Now he’s in his first-ever engineering role at Linear.
So this conversation is a deep dive into what it looks like for designers to approach their work with an engineering mindset. We talk about Julius’s deep background in prototyping, how he collaborates with designers at Linear. And we also get into why the current state of design engineering is a missed opportunity.
If you’re looking to grow as a software designer then you’ll love this episode.

Show notes:

Julius’s twitter
Felt — a better way to work with maps
Daniel Smith (Linear designer that Julius pairs with)
Origami (Facebook’s prototyping tool)
Brandon Walkin (ex: Facebook, Apple, now at OpenAI) who made the adaptive pointer for iPad.
What are GPUs and Shaders? (Julius’s tutorial video)

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Raphael Schaad - Designing a startup from 0 to acquisition

Season 6 · Episode 53

Thursday, May 23, 2024 • Duration 48:09

When it comes to design founder stories, Raphael Schaad’s is one of the best. So this episode is the first-ever telling of how Raphael designed and built Cron (which became Notion Calendar). We talk about:

Sketching on paper vs. sketching in code
Why shipping quality software is like camping
How Raphael identified the MVP of the problem
What it was like building Cron in YC during COVID
Why you should design dialogues as first-class citizens
Why Raphael didn’t invest much in the Cron landing page
The differences between a design toolkit and a design system
a lot more lessons from a successful first-time design founder

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Alex Schleifer - How design at Airbnb creates a culture of craft at scale

Season 6 · Episode 52

Thursday, May 16, 2024 • Duration 47:59

Alex Schleifer was the long-time Chief Design Officer at Airbnb where he grew the team from ~35 to over 600 people. So this conversation is an inside look at what makes design at Airbnb so special. We discuss:

How to create a culture of decisiveness
Why great design leaders are like chefs
How to succeed in executive CRITs at Airbnb
How designers should prepare for an AI future
What it means to operate with a “first team” mindset
What it takes to achieve Airbnb’s level of craft at scale
Which elements of the Airbnb culture you can instill for your team
a lot more

Alex’s Twitter and Linkedin

Alex’s “People vs. Algorithms” podcast

Mentioned Airbnb alumni:

Katie Dill (Head of Design at Stripe)
Ethan Eismann (SVP Design at Slack)
Karri Saarinen (CEO at Linear)

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