Dive Club 🤿

Dive Club 🤿

Where designers never stop learning đź’Ş

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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Joey Banks - Designing your career path

Joey Banks - Designing your career path

A little over a year ago, Joey Banks and I were DM’ing each other in Slack about leaving our W-2 jobs and going independent.So this week’s episode is a reflection on his journey working for himself an...

20 Marras 202452min

Time to rethink design systems đź’ˇ

Time to rethink design systems đź’ˇ

The pendulum has swung too far with design systems. Somehow they’ve become synonymous with scale. But I believe they’re the perfect first step for startups. So this episode looks at stories from Perpl...

18 Marras 20248min

Dessn - The missing tool for product designers

Dessn - The missing tool for product designers

After writing a viral article called “The Missing Tool” I was fortunate to meet Gab and Nim who are the co-founders of a startup called Dessn.Dessn is a new way to ship design changes without having t...

13 Marras 202448min

7 mental models for designing AI productsđź’ˇ

7 mental models for designing AI productsđź’ˇ

Over the last few months, I’ve interviewed the people designing cutting edge AI products like Perplexity, Claude, Dot, Humane, Visual Electric, and more…During that time I’ve created a running list of...

11 Marras 202413min

Meng To - How to build your ideas with AI

Meng To - How to build your ideas with AI

One of the most impressive things I’ve seen a designer make all year is Meng To’s Dreamcut.It’s the perfect example of what it looks like to transition from traditional designer to builder 💪 So if yo...

6 Marras 202451min

How Airbnb is bringing soul back to their design đź’ˇ

How Airbnb is bringing soul back to their design đź’ˇ

Airbnb is making 3 big design investments to bring soul back to the app. So this episode pulls from interviews with their VP of Design, Teo Connor, and prototyping specialist Janum Trivedi. Learn why ...

4 Marras 20249min

Soleio - The rise of designers who ship

Soleio - The rise of designers who ship

As soon as I finished our original interview, I knew I had to have Soleio on as the first repeat guest. He led early design efforts at Facebook and Dropbox. Now he invests in design-driven startups li...

30 Loka 20241h 2min

Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas

Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas

This week’s episode is with Joel Lewenstein who is the Head of Product Design at Anthropic where he works on cutting edge AI products like Claude. After 80+ episodes, I can honestly say this one’s “ju...

23 Loka 202450min