Polly D’Arcy - Going from IC to VP of Design at Wealthsimple

Polly D’Arcy - Going from IC to VP of Design at Wealthsimple

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


That was Polly D’arcy’s (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pollydarcy/) journey and today’s episode covers everything she’s learned along the way. We go deep into design leadership, craft, hiring, and a lot more.

Some highlights:

- Why Polly hires specialists over generalists

- Tactics to nail your next portfolio presentation

- What it looks like to lean into the moment with AI

- How Polly defines design quality at WealthSimple

- Polly’s go-to interview question to evaluate designers

- How AI is changing team composition and design roles

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Brandon Jacoby - Seeing Taste vs. Creating Taste as a designer

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Brian Lovin - How to level up with AI as a designer

Brian Lovin - How to level up with AI as a designer

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Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI

Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI

If you're like me you gotta be curious... what's it like designing at OpenAI?So I’m excited to share today’s episode with you :)It’s a deep dive with OpenAI’s Head of Product Design, Ian Silber (https...

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Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studio

Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studio

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?Well in this episode I got to sit down with Marvin...

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Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AI

Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AI

Flora Guo (https://x.com/floguo) has one of the more impressive career trajectories of anyone I've interviewed on this show.She's currently the founding design engineer at Paradigm. But before that Gu...

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Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designer

Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designer

Today's episode is with Kris Puckett who has led design at Mercury, Dropbox, and now as a design manager at Stripe.His journey is the perfect example of what it looks like to lean into this moment in ...

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Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon care

Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon care

What does it look like to demonstrate uncommon care in the way you design and build an interface?Josh Puckett has has spent nearly two decades designing products like Wealthfront, Dropbox and helping ...

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