Dive Club 🤿

Flora Guo, a design engineer and founding design engineer at Paradigm known for her public design experiments and work at Vercel. She talks about building AI-first product workflows, using AI as a patient learning partner, experiments with tools like Variant and Paper, and how sharing playful projects and proactive outreach shaped her career.

Kris Puckett, a design leader at Stripe formerly at Dropbox and Mercury, who built the Epilogue reading app. He discusses building AI-native workflows, using Claude Cloud Code to prototype and create custom skills, teaching models niche expertise like metal shaders, and turning permissionless side projects into internal tools and career momentum.

Josh Puckett, product designer and founder of Interfacecraft with nearly two decades at Wealthfront and Dropbox. He talks about making onboarding feel special with a playable library card, crafting tactile, fidgetable interactions, building parametric playgrounds for generative graphics, and using storyboards plus AI to prototype rich, curious interfaces.

Luis Ouriach, a designer advocate at Figma who writes about agentic design systems. He explores how AI is reshaping design systems, when to automate and what to document, and how new integrations let designers push prototypes to the browser. Short takes on cross-functional rituals, starting anywhere as a maker, and the lowered cost to ship niche products.

Cameron Worboys, Head of Product Design at Cash App who builds AI-native design orgs, discusses flattening teams for speed and keeping minimal process. He explains how designers ship code, the three designer archetypes, and making systems that allow bespoke, emotionally resonant product moments. He urges AI fluency, craft, and creative leadership as keys for modern design.

Katie Dill, Head of Design at Stripe, leads the company’s design practice and shapes product experiences. She walks through the new stripe.com choices, from wave motifs to data visuals. Katie discusses ProtoDash and rapid AI-driven prototypes. She talks about how design practice is evolving, hiring signals for modern designers, and where craft should concentrate in an AI era.

Julien Martin, a product and design leader who led design at Zenly and Snapchat and co-founded Amo. He walks through Amo’s visual atom and animated avatar motif. He talks playful map-era DNA, micro-interactions that elevate feel, and how small multi-disciplinary teams and side projects shape modern hiring and design culture.

Tommy Smith, a design engineer and product designer known for Chrono, walks through making a side project the centerpiece of a portfolio. He discusses mastering micro-interactions, using Rive for motion experiments, claiming the design engineer title, and building Figma-to-code pipelines. Short videos, custom icons, and a minimalist, interaction-first portfolio shape his growth and career direction.

Ryan Stephen, a Microsoft product designer known for playful design experiments and viral prototypes, shares his creative playbook. He talks about making spatial ideas feel real, blending filmmaking and code, and prototyping in Blender and Swift. He explains his ideation habits, tooling choices, and why sharing work publicly accelerates learning and opportunity.

Hannah Hearth, Head of Product Design at Vercel and design leader focused on systems and AI, talks about how AI is reshaping design practice and career paths. She covers hands-on leadership, doing more with less without burning out, adopting AI thoughtfully, shorter sprints and earlier prototypes, and why design systems and storytelling matter now more than ever.