Dive Club 🤿

Stephen [https://x.com/sdothaney] previously co-founded Modulz which created Radix UI, now used by Vercel, Linear, and Jetsi. Now he’s the founder of the most influential design tool on the market — Paper [https://paper.design/]. In this episode, Stephen gives us a look at how Paper is fundamentally changing the speed of traditional design flows. Some highlights: * How to drive alignment as a company * How Stephen cultivates empathy in designers * How Stephen views the traditional design role * How Paper is paving the way for modern design tools * How Paper is bringing creativity back to design tools through shaders * a lot more * David Hoang Strategy is Compressing article [https://www.proofofconcept.pub/p/strategy-is-compressing] * Stephen posted on DeviantArt in early days * Created Radix UI at Modulz [https://modulz.app/] * Paper’s Liquid logo release on Twitter [https://x.com/sdothaney/status/1892286294107013506]

A year ago, it felt like AI-generated UI was about to have its moment. But now the landscape looks a LOT different than what people expected. So this episode answers the question "what's next?" Because there's still an untapped opportunity that I believe will become very real soon... * Kyle Turman (Designer at Anthropic) https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/kyle-turman [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/kyle-turman] * Nad Chishtie (1st designer at Lovable) https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/nad-chishtie [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/nad-chishtie] * Zach Leach (Head of Design at Gamma) https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/zach-leach [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/zach-leach] * Jordan Singer (AI at Figma) https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/jordan-singer [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/jordan-singer] * Pranathi Peri (Product designer at Vercel) https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/pranathi-peri [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/pranathi-peri] * Alex Schleifer (Former Chief Design Officer at Airbnb) https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/alex-schleifer [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/alex-schleifer]

This week, Zach Leach [https://x.com/thisiszach?lang=en] (Head of Design at Gamma [https://gamma.app/]) gives a behind-the-scenes of what it’s like designing one of the hottest AI products in the world today. He shares a ton of techniques and lessons learned from working with LLMs—including some ways to make AI fun again :) And we also learn what makes design at Gamma a bit unorthodox in all the best ways. Some highlights: * What makes Gamma a team of “AI Pioneers” * How Gamma designers prototype ideas in code * How Zach has iterated on interaction patterns for AI * How to think about AI functionality at the system level * How Zach imagines his design role in the coming years * What Zach has learned about designing AI-powered flows * a lot more ** * The core team came over together from Optimizely [https://www.optimizely.com/insights/web-experimentation-demo/?gad_campaignid=1058248030&gbraid=0AAAAADLnnGMwS0-hVmCuwjGpJCGgtZ6de] * We talked about prototyping in Bolt [https://bolt.new/] and Lovable [https://lovable.dev/]

The more I study today's top design teams, the more clear it’s becoming that we're entering the era of a new type of design leader— one with taste and the skills necessary to uphold craft. So this episode studies this new archetype of leader by highlighting clips from design leaders at Airbnb, Ramp, Duolingo, and more… * Alex Schleifer [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/alex-schleifer] (Former Chief Design Officer at Airbnb) * Mig Reyes [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/mig-reyes] (VP of Product Experience at Duolingo) * Derek Briggs [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/derek-briggs] (Design + Code at Hypermode) * Teo Connor [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/air-bnb] (VP of Design at Airbnb) * Diego Zaks [https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/diego-zaks] (VP of Design at Ramp)

Mig Reyes is the VP of Product Experience at Duolingo (and a design director at Instagram before that). In this episode he shared a behind-the-scenes of how design operates at Duolingo (as well as some harsh truths designers need to hear). * Common portfolio review mistakes * How communication skills build influence * Mig’s strategy behind hiring junior designers * How to succeed in executive product reviews * Mig’s mandate to raise the design bar at Duolingo * How Mig revamped design management at Duolingo * Why Duolingo changed from “UX” to “Product Experience” * a lot more * Jacob Nielsen (commented on LinkedIn post) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobnielsenphd?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app] * Brett Westervelt (VP of Design at Instagram) [https://x.com/westervelt?lang=en] * Ryan Sims (Chief Design Officer at Duolingo) [https://x.com/simmy?lang=en] * Luis (CEO of Duolingo) [https://x.com/LuisvonAhn] * Companies mentioned: Instagram, Airbnb, Coinbase, Meta, OpenAI, Figma