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1. Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopify

   3 november 2026 · 51 min

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   This week's episode is with Derek Briggs and we're doing a deep dive into how he's raising the bar for craft as a principal designer at Shopify. Lees meer

   Some highlights:

   - Scaling impact as a principal IC at Shopify

   - Creating systems for greatness to happen

   - Sweating the details on the shop.com carousel

   - The custom easing system Derek built for Shopify

   - Building custom data pipelines to uncover opportunities

   - Why Derek thinks design engineer is the most important role today

   - + a lot more

2. James McDonald - Building Beautiful Websites with Claude

   28 oktober 2026 · 45 min

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   James McDonald is one of my favorite visual designers on the planet… but recently he took on his first ever contract where he’s responsible for both designing AND building his ideas from scratch. Lees meer

   So I used it as an excuse to get him back on the show to learn his tactics for creating stunning web designs with Claude.

   It’s a ton of screen-sharing and a heck of a behind-the-scenes into his process.

   Some highlights:

   - When James reaches for Figma vs. Claude

   - How James builds custom mini design tools

   - How James finds visual motifs to build around

   - James's strategies for animating designs with AI

   - How James explored the visual language for Onlook

   - + a lot more

3. Kyle Barber - Designing Inflight (the raw behind-the-scenes)

   20 oktober 2026 · 59 min

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   This week's episode is a behind-the-scenes of the Inflight design journey. So I invited my co-founder Kyle Barber (designer at Tinder, Facebook, and Airchat) to share what it's actually like designing a startup today. Lees meer

   Inflight Pitch Episode (the SPC pitch we mention in the fundraising section)

4. Myles Palmer - Building Custom AI Tools at Metalab

   15 oktober 2026 · 56 min

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   I’ve seen a lot of custom AI tools on this show… Lees meer

   But this week’s episode with Myles Palmer (Design Director at Metalab) might take the cake.

   Myles is the perfect archetype for what it looks like to be curious as a builder today and in this episode he gives us the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the internal tooling system he built at Metalab.

5. Rhiannon Bell - How Google designs for AI at scale

   6 oktober 2026 · 50 min

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   This week's episode is with Rhiannon Bell (VP of UX for Google Search) and we're doing a deep dive into what it takes to design for AI at the scale of Google. Lees meer

   Some highlights:

   - The design decisions that unlocked AI Mode

   - What it takes to design at the scale of Google

   - Designing dynamic component systems for AI

   - How AI is shaping the practice of design at Google

   - What we can learn from the top designers at Google

   - What skills are becoming more valuable for designers

   - + a lot more

6. Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job market

   29 september 2026 · 51 min

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   This week's episode is with Danny Martinez and we're doing the ultimate deep dive into design hiring and what's happening in today's job market. Danny has the perfect vantage point as the CEO of Decimals—the platform that powers everything I do with the Dive Talent Network. So this episodes is about as practical as it gets. Lees meer

   - What companies want in a “design engineer”

   - The biggest green and red flags from hiring managers

   - How the best teams are iterating on the hiring process

   - Examples of portfolios getting hired in the talent network

   - Why brand design is the most difficult design role to hire for

   - How to attract the most in-demand designers as a hiring manager

   - The interaction design example hiring managers keep highlighting

   - + a lot more

7. Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designer

   23 september 2026 · 52 min

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   This week's episode is with Geoff Teehan—co-founder of the legendary design agency Teehan+Lax, longtime design leader at Facebook, and now Chief Design Officer at Lightspark. Lees meer

   Some highlights:

   How Geoff has navigated multiple cycles of change

   What the “parking spot” phase of software looks like

   Why Geoff plans to only hire 4 designers at Lightspark

   The design backstory behind Geoff’s viral Dialed game

   How Geoff brings consumer principles into enterprise design

   ＋ a lot more

8. Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise design

   15 september 2026 · 49 min

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   This week's episode is with Nev Flynn and we're doing a deep dive into how he's bringing artful expression into enterprise design as the Head of Design at ElevenLabs. Lees meer

   Some highlights:

   Inside look at ElevenLabs internal brand tools

   Why Nev is prioritizing specialists over generalists

   What Nev looks for when evaluating a design portfolio

   How they built a shader orb system for 40 million voices

   What happens when non-designers are designing with AI

   How the team is making their design system agent-native

   a lot more

9. Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAI

   9 september 2026 · 48 min

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   This week's episode is with Ed Bayes and we're doing a deep dive into how designers at OpenAI prototype the future of Codex/ChatGPT Work. Lees meer

   Some highlights:

   - How prototyping at OpenAI has shifted recently

   - The design challenges of bringing Codex into ChatGPT

   - How Ed thinks about the spectrum of dynamic interfaces

   - How Codex thought about their information architecture bets

   - Why Ed structures design teams around personas not features

   - The traits of the designers making the biggest impact at OpenAI

   - + a lot more

   The Bitter Lesson (http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html) — ML essay he referenced on scaffolding and model releases

10. Evil Rabbit - The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercel

    2 september 2026 · 52 min

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    This week’s episode is with Evil Rabbit who is the founding designer at Vercel and an iconic figure in the design community. Lees meer

    He shares his design journey (which started with his first job in Argentina at 12 years old)

    So he’s going to share his journey in design and what it was like

    Some highlights:

    - What it takes to design an iconic brand identity

    - How Vercel’s new Creative Studio team operates

    - How he landed his first design job at 12 years old in Argentina

    - Why Vercel is shifting from designing assets to building tools

    - What he learned from working directly with Guillermo (Vercel CEO)

    - + a lot more

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