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....
Christophe Tauziet - Plaid’s culture of craft, tips for CRIT, and lessons from early Facebook
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 foster a winning CRIT environmentWhy Christophe implemented “polish reviews”Ways to foster collaboration within a design orgPractical advice for giving better design feedbackHow Christophe changed what he looks for in design candidatesa lot moreBrian Lovin’s article “Teams should work with the garage door up”
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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
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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