Dive Club 🤿

Mar 11 2025 117 ep. 42 mins 15

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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

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Christophe Tauziet - Plaid’s culture of craft, tips for CRIT, and lessons from early Facebook

Mar 07 2025 55 mins

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 outHow to f

Aashman Goghari - Tackling complex design challenges at Palantir

Mar 01 2025 59 mins

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 o

Thiago Costa - Cultivating taste as a designer

Feb 20 2025 58 mins

If you asked me “who has the best taste in design right now?” one of the first people I’d mention is Thiago Costa.His product Fey is in the S-tier of design and I’ve studied his visual techniques for many years.Finally, after over a 12 months of pestering he agreed to share his secrets in a interview 🙌We go deep into:Mastering the finer details of craftPutting AI at the

Ammaar Reshi - Unlocking AI’s creative potential

Feb 14 2025 54 mins

Today we get to hear from Ammaar Reshi who is the Head of Design at ElevenLabs—the AI audio platform that has come up multiple times in past episodes.So a big focus of this conversation is learning what it's like designing an AI-native product. We go deep into topics like:The backstory of Ammaar’s viral AI experimentsPredictions for the future of voice as an interfaceWhat it’

Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers

Feb 06 2025 49 mins

This week's episode is with Chris Abad who has led design teams at companies like Google, Square and Dropbox so needless to say he's given a lot of design presentations over his 20+ year career.So this conversation is a deep dive into storytelling and everything you can do as a designer to effectively share your vision and persuade stakeholders.He shares every step of his process i

Anthony Menecola - Insights from a staff designer at Shopify

Jan 31 2025 44 mins

This week's episode is with Anthony Menecola who is a longtime staff product designer at Shopify so we’re going to do a deep dive into ways you can make a bigger impact at your company as an IC.One of the big themes of this episode is Anthony’s journey becoming more technical and contributing to the Shopify code base so if you’re interested in building your ideas I think you�

Balint Orosz - What it takes to design an award-winning product

Jan 24 2025 52 mins

What does it take to create a product worthy of winning Mac app of the year?I interviewed the founder of Craft Docs, Balint Orosz, to find out…So this episode is a deep dive into how they work and what it takes to achieve this level of design excellence, including:What Balint looks for in systems thinkersCraft’s plan to differentiate with personalizationWhat it looks like for d

Catt Small - How to influence and lead as a staff designer

Jan 17 2025 52 mins

How do the best staff designers influence and lead as individual contributors?I interviewed Catt Small to answer that question and it turned into one of the most practical episodes yet. She pulls from her 14+ years of experience designing products like Etsy, Asana, and Soundcloud to share techniques you can use to level up your influence and scale your impact as an IC.Some highligh

Tyler Angert - The rise of spontaneous software

Jan 08 2025 48 mins

This week’s episode is with Tyler Angert who was the first design hire at Replit. So we get a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like designing for a hyper growth startup. However in early 2024, Tyler left to pursue a startup of his own, so a good chunk of this discussion focuses on his vision for Patina and the future of “spontaneous software”.Some highlights:Why the came

Mike and Chara Smith - Designing for the love of the game

Jan 03 2025 57 mins

I’ve followed Mike Smith ever since he designed the Perplexity brand identity and quickly realized he’s one of the most creative designers I’ve ever seen. Turns out his wife Chara is a positioning mastermind too so it makes sense why Smith & Diction is one of the hottest agencies in the game today.So this week’s episode is a deep dive into brand strategy and what it tak