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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.
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I use Granola every single day and it’s quickly become a beloved product in the tech community. But it was a winding journey to get there… So in this episode their co-founder and designer, Sam Stephenson, gives a behind-the-scenes of what it was like going 0 → 1 with Granola: How to navigate the idea maze for an AI product What Sam has learned about prompt engineering What it takes to succeed as an early stage startup designer How they arrived at Granola’s breakthrough interaction pattern A glimpse of Granola’s future product roadmap and teams strategy The piece of advice that reshaped how they think about onboarding a lot more ⭐ Granola is offering 3 months free for you and anyone on your team(!!) using this link They’re also hiring a founding designer Sam mentions Soleio who was their first investor Daniel Kahneman is the psychologist Sam mentions The Science of Managing our Digital Stuff David Lee is the YC Partner who gave them onboarding advice If you liked this episode then you’ll enjoy the interview with Colin Dunn (co-founder and designer of Visual Electric)
What do Raycast, Daylight, Amo, The Browser Co, and Mainframe all have in common? They all hired Ellis Hamburger to help tell their story. So this episode is a bit different... We're going to get away from the pixels and go deep into how you can use language to tell a compelling story about your product. Some highlights: How to tell a story that people care about Lessons from the Language team at Snapchat Breaking down specific copywriting strategies Questions to help you figure out your product’s story What we can learn from the CEOs of Snapchat vs. Browser Co. How to make your product onboarding unforgettable a lot more Ellis talks about the Browser Company’s “Peek” video Jordan Singer’s Mainframe website Daylight computer website Ellis mentions the 222 onboarding The Permanent website (”design is how its made”) Ellis quotes the Build book Amo’s “Where did our friends go?” manifesto Raycast’s “Why” page and Focus mode
This week’s episode is with Alejandro Matamala Ortiz, the cofounder and Chief Design Officer at Runway—one of the leading generative AI companies in the world today. The way they work is incredibly unique. So a big focus of this interview is digging into how AI is shifting the way products get built and what it all means for designers: How the lines are blurring between roles How AI flips the order of building new features What it means to “carve” AI products vs. build them How Alejandro believes the role of design will change Why the embed frontend engineers on the design team Where the film and video industry might be headed next a lot more
This week’s episode is with Christophe Tauziet who is the Head of Design at Plaid—one of today’s leading fintech companies. We go deep into the ways he’s building a culture of craft and the rituals they’ve evolved to consistently sweat the details. There are a lot of practical processes and ideas in this episode. Some highlights: Keys to a great async video share out How to foster a winning CRIT environment Why Christophe implemented “polish reviews” Ways to foster collaboration within a design org Practical advice for giving better design feedback How Christophe changed what he looks for in design candidates a lot more Brian Lovin’s article “Teams should work with the garage door up”
Palantir is one of the most powerful products in existence today. It provides critical government and enterprise infrastructure from the factory floors to the front lines. You can literally build your own Airbnb on top of their development platform. But with great power comes lots of complexity… So in this week’s episode, Design Lead Aashman Goghari gives us a behind-the-scenes of what it’s like designing products at Palantir. Becoming better at “problem decomposition” Two patterns for handling complex interfaces How to think through systems like a developer How data models can impact your design process Designing new user experiences for “Ferrari products” How to collaborate more effectively with backend engineers Finding the balance between edge cases and the golden path a lot more Aashman mentions the Concepts app for sketching on iPad Palantir is currently hiring designers You can follow Aashman on Twitter