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• 2 ways to make your design ideas compelling💡

  You can have the greatest design concepts in the world, but none of that matters if they don't make it into production.So this episode is all about how to create an aura of inevitability around your ideas.It features stories from early Facebook, Webflow, and Figma 👇Vincent van der Meulen (Design engineer at Figma)Soleio pt. 1 / pt. 2 (second designer at Facebook)Kevin Wong (Head of product at Webflow)

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• Aashman Goghari - Tackling complex design challenges at Palantir

  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 interfacesHow to think through systems like a developerHow data models can impact your design processDesigning new user experiences for “Ferrari products”How to collaborate more effectively with backend engineersFinding the balance between edge cases and the golden patha lot moreAashman mentions the Concepts app for sketching on iPadPalantir is currently hiring designersYou can follow Aashman on Twitter

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• 4 brand strategy tips from Smith & Diction💡

  When comes to brand design, Mike and Cara from Smith & Diction are pretty much top of the game (you might recognize them as the ones who did the brand identity for Perplexity).During our interview, it didn't take me long to realize that these two have more hacks and mental models for creativity than just about anyone I’ve met.So here are a few of my favorites.Watch the full episode with Smith & Diction here: https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/smith-diction

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• Thiago Costa - Cultivating taste as a designer

  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 heart of the new Fey 2.0Where Thiago draws inspiration outside of UIWhat it looks like to have a “heightened awareness”How Thiago evolved the Fey aesthetic from 1.0 to 2.0Specific visual techniques for making your UI more lifelikea lot moreCaravaggio is the painter who Thiago calls the “master of light”The Local Project interior design channel on YouTube

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• Ammaar Reshi - Unlocking AI’s creative potential

  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’s like collaborating with an research teamHow he’s designing novel interaction patterns for AIWhat Ammaar looks for when hiring startup designersWhat it’s like designing at multiple hyper growth startupsa lot moreThread of all Ammaar’s AI experiments (including the viral book and podcast app)Ammaar mentioned chatting with Nate Parrott from the Browser CompanyAmmaar mentions the Rabbit hardware productAmmaar mentions collaborating with his friend Pietro

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