Dive Club 🤿

Ryan Stephen (https://x.com/Ryan__Stephen) is a product designer at Microsoft, but the reason I wanted to interview him is because he's the man behind some of my favorite design experiments on Twitter.
So in this episode Ryan gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his creative process, the tools in his stack, and how he approaches effective storytelling in design.
Some highlights:
- How Ryan sparks creativity
- The power of putting your work on Twitter
- How Ryan thinks about investing in his career
- Ryan’s mental model for fidelity and prototyping
- The lessons Ryan’s learned about effective storytelling
- The tools and techniques Ryan uses to make ideas feel real
- + a lot more

Today's episode is with Hannah Hearth who recently became the Head of Product Design at Vercel. We talk about all of the changes that are happening in our industry and what it all means for designers. Everything from how AI tools are changing the practice of design to how this impact the way we think about our career paths.
Some highlights:
Hannah’s #1 trait for great designers
The most underrated storytelling tactic
Doing more with less while not burning out
Examples of how AI is changing the design process
How design orgs should think about adopting AI tools
How much coding is happening on the Vercel design team
Preserving craft and design thinking with collapsed timelines
a lot more

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Today’s episode is with Karl Koch (https://x.com/_kejk?lang=en) and it’s filled with practical tips for new design engineers looking to push past what AI gives you out of the box.
We go deep into:
- Adopting the design engineering mindset
- What the job market looks like for design engineers
- The difference between frontend and design engineers
- Specific language to create better interaction design
- The details Karl is sweating in his role at Duck Duck Go
- + a lot more

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This episode is a deep dive into Rive—the engine powering experiences like Spotify Wrapped, next-gen car dashboards, and so much more.
After hearing Luigi and Guido Rosso’s vision for the future of interactive software, I’m convinced it will be a big deal for designers 👀

One of the biggest parts of my design practice is knowing which tool to reach for when coding with AI.
There are a lot of options and they’re changing every week 😅
So in this episode, I break down:
1. The mental model I use to think about different types of AI coding workflows
2. How that model guides which tools I actually reach for day to day
3. The new AI coding product I’m completely hooked on right now

- Tools listed:
- Lovable (https://lovable.dev/)
- Figma Make (https://www.figma.com/make/)
- Dessn (https://www.dessn.ai/)
- Conductor (https://www.conductor.build/)
- Warp (https://www.warp.dev/)
- Inflight (https://www.inflight.co)