Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-nat...

Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designer

Dive Club 🤿 by Ridd
E156
Mar 19, 2026
52:57

Episode notes

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 time with AI.

Some highlights:

- Behind the scenes of Kris’s Epilogue app

- How to create custom skills with Claude Code

- How to start building personal systems with AI

- How Kris taught Claude to be a metal shader expert

- Building internal tools and workflows with AI at Stripe

- + a lot more

Keywords

design
product design
ux design
ui design