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
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 158
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Sara Vienna - Taste, Meaning, and How to Stand Out in an AI world
What does it take to make people feel something with design...?
This week's guest is kind of an expert on the question.
Sara Vienna (https://x.com/sravienna?lang=en) , the Chief Design Officer at Meta…
Gabe Valdivia - How to Thrive as an Independent Designer
I think we're entering a world where the market for fractional design is about to explode…
So this week's episode is with one of my favorite people in the industry, Gabe Valdivia.
We're going to explor…
Behind the scenes of the Inflight startup pitch💡
Too much of designing a startup happens behind closed doors
So I want to work with the garage door open while building Inflight (https://www.inflight.co/) as much as possible.
You already saw a bunch o…
Dan Winer - How to become more strategic and advance your career
What does it look like to advance your career in the age of AI?
That’s what this week’s episode with Dan Winer (Director of Product Design at Kit) is all about.
He shares insights from his top-rated …
Andy Zhang - From early Figma to design engineer at Windsurf
This week's episode is with Andy Zhang who was the lead design engineer at Windsurf. So we're going to shine a light on all of the ways you can make an impact as a design engineer including:
- Owning mo…
Vitaly Friedman - Beyond Chat: What's Next for AI Design Patterns
I’d bet real money that you have been on Smashing Magazine at some point in the last 18 years…
Good news is, this week I got to interview the founder, Vitaly Friedman, who is also one of the leading t…
From Uber to Apple to new design founder 💡
If I told you someone had a background as a senior designer at companies like Uber, Dropbox, Apple, and Patreon then you'd be pretty impressed, right?
Same.
But Adam Noffsinger walked away from all of …
Pietro Schirano - AI just gave designers a promotion
This week’s episode is with Pietro Schirano who is the founder of the new design tool MagicPath and one of the true forward thinkers on AI. We go deep into the future of prototyping, design workflows…
Why AI has changed prototyping forever
This week I got an inside look at Figma Make while talking to Holly and Nikolas all about the future of prototyping…
We get into real world use cases for different kinds of prototypes and how our work…
How product design works at Raycast 💡
Last month we did the ultimate Raycast Deep Dive, but there's a lot in there… so this week I want to highlight just the segment from the product design team.
We go deep into how they collaborate, why …
Gunnar Gray - Designing Perplexity, shaders, and voice interfaces
This week, Gunnar Gray (Product Design Lead at Perplexity) dives into the art of designing AI-native experiences.
He shares lessons from shaping Voice Mode and how prototyping with AI is changing the …
Ryo Lu - Designing the future of Cursor
Cursor is easily one of the most impactful companies in all of tech…
And this week's episode is with their Head of Design, Ryo Lu.
You might've heard of Ryo in this episode back when we talked about ea…
Julian Lehr - How storytelling works at Linear
This week's episode is with Julian Lehr who is the storytelling lead at Linear
So we're going to step out of the pixels for this conversation and focus more on how you can get people excited about wha…
Emmet Connolly - Transitioning into the next era of design
You probably know Intercom… but did you know they recently incubated a new startup called Fin that has already surpassed the core business?
They’ve pulled off a massive transition to an AI-native prod…
My playbook for vibe coding💡
In last week’s episode, the Head of Design at The Browser Company shared a totally new way to think about your portfolio.
He says one of the most valuable things you can demonstrate today is the abili…
Dustin Senos - Designing Dia (the AI-native web browser)
Dia from The Browser Company has completely taken over the internet. We’re finally seeing what an AI-native browser can be and it’s pretty exciting :)
So this episode is a behind-the-scenes with their…
The Ultimate Raycast Deep Dive (craft, AI, hype, & more)
This week’s episode is a first of its kind because we’re doing the ultimate deep dive into one of my favorite products: Raycast
We’ll here from the founders, design team, and even the hype team and go…
Behind the scenes of my design founder journey
The last two weeks with Inflight have been the most exhilarating of my entire career…
So I want to use Dive Club  to provide unprecedented levels of access to life as a design founder.
I’m talking abou…
Darrin Henein - The new bar for design excellence at Shopify
This week's episode is with Darrin Henein who is the VP of Design at Shopify. We talk about how they create a culture of excellence and how AI is influencing the way they practice the design.
Some hig…
Vibe designing with Subframe
There’s a new design tool called Subframe that’s officially caught my eye 👀
So I asked their co-founder Filip Skrzesinksi to give us a demo and talk through their vision.
I found some of their AI inter…