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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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Gabe Valdivia - How to Thrive as an Independent Designer
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Aug 29, 2025 |
Behind the scenes of the Inflight startup pitch💡
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Aug 27, 2025 |
Dan Winer - How to become more strategic and advance your career
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Aug 22, 2025 |
Andy Zhang - From early Figma to design engineer at Windsurf
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Aug 15, 2025 |
Vitaly Friedman - Beyond Chat: What's Next for AI Design Patterns
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Aug 08, 2025 |
From Uber to Apple to new design founder 💡
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Aug 06, 2025 |
Pietro Schirano - AI just gave designers a promotion
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Aug 01, 2025 |
Why AI has changed prototyping forever
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Jul 25, 2025 |
How product design works at Raycast 💡
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Jul 23, 2025 |
Gunnar Gray - Designing Perplexity, shaders, and voice interfaces
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Jul 18, 2025 |
Ryo Lu - Designing the future of Cursor
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Jul 11, 2025 |
Julian Lehr - How storytelling works at Linear
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Jul 02, 2025 |
Emmet Connolly - Transitioning into the next era of design
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Jun 27, 2025 |
My playbook for vibe coding💡
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Jun 25, 2025 |
Dustin Senos - Designing Dia (the AI-native web browser)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
The Ultimate Raycast Deep Dive (craft, AI, hype, & more)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
Behind the scenes of my design founder journey
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Jun 11, 2025 |
Darrin Henein - The new bar for design excellence at Shopify
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Jun 06, 2025 |
Vibe designing with Subframe
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Jun 04, 2025 |
Ioana Teleanu - The right (and wrong) ways to design AI into your product
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May 30, 2025 |
Jesse Kulp - Designing the Future of AI at Google
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May 23, 2025 |
Stephen Haney - Paper's vision for the future of design tooling
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May 16, 2025 |
The untapped opportunity for design tools💡
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May 13, 2025 |
Zach Leach - Principles for designing a great AI product
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May 09, 2025 |
The new era of design leadership💡
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May 06, 2025 |
Mig Reyes - Harsh truths that designers need to hear
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May 02, 2025 |
How experienced designers drive alignment💡
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Apr 29, 2025 |
Kyle Turman - Designing Claude and collaborating with AI
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Apr 25, 2025 |
The window of opportunity for designers
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Apr 22, 2025 |
Tuhin Kumar - From Airbnb to Apple to designing with AI
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Apr 19, 2025 |
The strategy I’m stealing from Granola💡
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Apr 15, 2025 |
Jack Brody - Designing Snapchat and the future of music
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Apr 11, 2025 |
6 tips to make your portfolio stand out💡
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Apr 09, 2025 |
Nad Chishtie - A new way to design and build with AI
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Apr 04, 2025 |
Designing on expert mode
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Apr 01, 2025 |
Sam Stephenson - The journey of designing an AI product
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Mar 28, 2025 |
How Ramp and Plaid create a culture of craft💡
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Mar 25, 2025 |
Ellis Hamburger - Storytelling for today’s top startups
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Mar 21, 2025 |
The challenge of designing AI products💡
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Mar 18, 2025 |
Alejandro Matamala Ortiz - Designing the future of AI video
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Mar 14, 2025 |
How to pitch your designs like a pro💡
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Mar 11, 2025 |
Christophe Tauziet - Plaid’s culture of craft, tips for CRIT, and lessons from early Facebook
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Mar 07, 2025 |
2 ways to make your design ideas compelling💡
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Mar 04, 2025 |
Aashman Goghari - Tackling complex design challenges at Palantir
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Mar 01, 2025 |
4 brand strategy tips from Smith & Diction 💡
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Feb 25, 2025 |
Thiago Costa - Cultivating taste as a designer
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Feb 21, 2025 |
Ammaar Reshi - Unlocking AI’s creative potential
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Feb 14, 2025 |
Design “handoff” is changing forever 💡
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Feb 11, 2025 |
Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers
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Feb 07, 2025 |
How to be great at systems thinking 💡
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Feb 04, 2025 |
Anthony Menecola - Insights from a staff designer at Shopify
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Jan 31, 2025 |
Making big ideas happen with design 💡
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Jan 28, 2025 |
Balint Orosz - What it takes to design an award-winning product
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Jan 24, 2025 |
How to increase your influence as a designer 💡
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Jan 21, 2025 |
Catt Small - How to influence and lead as a staff designer
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Jan 17, 2025 |
How to get hired by the best teams 💡
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Jan 14, 2025 |
Tyler Angert - The rise of spontaneous software
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Jan 08, 2025 |
You’re an AI product designer now 💡
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Jan 06, 2025 |
Mike and Chara Smith - Designing for the love of the game
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Jan 03, 2025 |
Thinking like an engineer is a super power for designers 💡
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Dec 30, 2024 |
Pranathi Peri - Designing v0 from Vercel
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Dec 27, 2024 |
What true obsession with craft looks like 💡
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Dec 23, 2024 |
Sam Peitz - The intersection of art and product
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Dec 18, 2024 |
Don’t trust the design process 💡
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Dec 16, 2024 |
Andrei Herasimchuk - The 1st designer at Adobe
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Dec 11, 2024 |
Become a 10x startup designer 💡
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Dec 09, 2024 |
Diego Zaks - Designing the fastest growing startup ever
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Dec 04, 2024 |
Attacking ambiguity with design💡
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Dec 02, 2024 |
Phi Hoang - Creativity, Midjourney, and the future of brand design
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Nov 27, 2024 |
Storytelling masterclass for designers 💡
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Nov 25, 2024 |
Joey Banks - Designing your career path
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Nov 20, 2024 |
Time to rethink design systems 💡
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Nov 18, 2024 |
Dessn - The missing tool for product designers
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Nov 13, 2024 |
7 mental models for designing AI products💡
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Nov 11, 2024 |
Meng To - How to build your ideas with AI
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Nov 06, 2024 |
How Airbnb is bringing soul back to their design 💡
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Nov 04, 2024 |
Soleio - The rise of designers who ship
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Oct 30, 2024 |
Joel Lewenstein - Pursuing ambitious design ideas
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Oct 23, 2024 |
Teo Connor - How Airbnb innovates with design
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Oct 16, 2024 |
Dan Moreno - Challenging the status quo as a designer
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Oct 09, 2024 |
Jason Yuan - Going beyond craft to design with soul
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Oct 02, 2024 |
Mariana Castilho - Evolving from designer to builder
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Sep 25, 2024 |
Janum Trivedi - What makes a software product feel great
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Sep 18, 2024 |
Ben Blumenrose - Investing in the next wave of design founders
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Sep 12, 2024 |
Henry Modisett - Designing a unicorn AI startup from nothing
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Sep 04, 2024 |
Ryan Scott - Making strategic impact as a designer
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Aug 29, 2024 |
Oliur - Grow your personal brand and get noticed as a designer
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Aug 28, 2024 |
Maheen Sohail - Navigating ambiguity in AI design
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Aug 22, 2024 |
George Kedenburg - Pushing past the pixels
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Aug 15, 2024 |
Colin Dunn - What it takes to design a breakthrough AI product
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Aug 07, 2024 |
Nate Parrott - Going from engineer to founding designer of Arc
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Aug 01, 2024 |
Dan LaCivita - A glimpse of the future of design tooling
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Jul 24, 2024 |
Gavin Nelson - Prototyping, interaction design, and learning SwiftUI
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Jul 18, 2024 |
Vincent van der Meuelen - The story of Figma’s big AI pivot
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Jul 11, 2024 |
Jordan Singer - The future of AI in Figma
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Jul 05, 2024 |
Kathy Zheng - How to make the jump to staff designer
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Jun 26, 2024 |
Alex Cornell - Mastering the art of influence
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Jun 20, 2024 |
Maggie Appleton - Becoming an AI-native designer
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Jun 12, 2024 |
Ian Wharton - The secret to great storytelling
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Jun 06, 2024 |
Amy Lima - How to turn a layoff into a dream job
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Jun 04, 2024 |
Julius Tarng - Dissolving the line between design and engineering
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May 30, 2024 |
Raphael Schaad - Designing a startup from 0 to acquisition
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May 23, 2024 |
Alex Schleifer - How design at Airbnb creates a culture of craft at scale
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May 16, 2024 |
Noam Segal - Tools and tactics for modern user research
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May 09, 2024 |
Helen Tran - Designing with a founder mindset
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May 01, 2024 |
Hunter Hammonds - Positioning pt. 2: How to scale to $1M+
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Nick Pattison - Positioning pt. 1: How to make $15k/week
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Dennis Müller - Designing with soul
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Apr 18, 2024 |
Vercel’s Glenn Hitchcock & John Pham - Design engineering deep dive
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Michael Wandelmaier - Envisioning the art of the possible
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Adam Mura - How to design and build websites faster with AI
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Apr 03, 2024 |
Rich Arnold - Becoming a creative problem solver
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Brad Frost - The new frontier of design systems
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Mar 21, 2024 |
Gabe Valdivia - Storytelling, freelancing, and designing 0 to 1
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Mar 14, 2024 |
Andy Allen - What’s wrong with software design today
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Jenny Wen - The art of designing for delight
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Feb 29, 2024 |
8 key takeaways from season 4
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Soleio - What makes a truly great software designer
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Bonus Episode: Helen Zhou - How designers can get the most out of AI tools
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Feb 13, 2024 |
Kevin Wong - How design works at Webflow
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Feb 08, 2024 |
Ryo Lu - Systems thinking for product designers
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Molly Hellmuth - Building design systems with variables in Figma
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Derek Briggs - Creating a culture of craft
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Jan 18, 2024 |
Tommy Geoco - How designers can bring their ideas to life
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Kevin Twohy - How to build an independent design practice
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Lauren LoPrete - Inside design systems at Dropbox and Cash App
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Kate Syuma - Designing with a growth mindset
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Dec 27, 2023 |
Soren Iverson - Training your creative muscles
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Dec 21, 2023 |
Kathryn Gonzalez - Defining the visual language for DoorDash
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Figma prototyping masterclass (from the team who designed it)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
Marco Cornacchia - The man who broke design Twitter
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Nov 30, 2023 |
How to level up as an IC (feat. Steph Engle, Maheen Sohail & Brian Lovin)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
James McDonald - Staying ahead of web design trends
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Nov 09, 2023 |
Brian Lovin - Confessions of a two-time design founder
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Nov 02, 2023 |
David Hoang - How to prepare for design in 2025
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Erik Kennedy - Landing page techniques used by the pros
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Oct 19, 2023 |
How Loom design went 0 to 1 on their new AI product
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Oct 12, 2023 |
Perry Wang - How to land your dream role as a Junior Designer
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Oct 05, 2023 |
5 things I learned in Season 2
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Adrien Griveau - Lessons from the founding designer at Linear
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Sep 21, 2023 |
Yuan Wang - Leading high-stakes design presentations
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Sep 14, 2023 |
Grace Walker - How to avoid drowning in your first year freelancing
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Dan Mall - What designers get wrong about design systems
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Aug 31, 2023 |
Anthony Hobday - Mastering the pillars of great visual design
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Aug 23, 2023 |
Grace Ling - Standing out in today's job market
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Aug 17, 2023 |
Luis Ouriach - Strategies for using variables in Figma
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Aug 10, 2023 |
Steph Golik - Going from designer to founder
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Jul 27, 2023 |
Fons Mans - How to design brands and visuals that stand out
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Jul 20, 2023 |
Charli Marie - Lessons in career growth and creativity
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May 25, 2023 |
Bonnie Kate Wolf - Growing a freelance business as an icon designer
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May 25, 2023 |
Femke - Product strategy and selling your ideas
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May 18, 2023 |
Dan Hollick - Framer, AI, and designing for Jay-Z
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May 18, 2023 |
Mia Blume - Increasing your influence as a designer
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May 11, 2023 |
Fonz Morris - How to drive business impact
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May 11, 2023 |
Jorn van Dijk — Framer + AI's impact on Design
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May 04, 2023 |
Steph Engle — Storytelling + design presentations
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May 04, 2023 |
Joey Banks — Design systems + Figma strategies
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May 04, 2023 |