Deep Dives 🤿 Podcast
1) Sara Vienna - Taste, Meaning, and How to Stand Out in an AI world
What does it take to make people feel something with design...?This week's guest is kind of an expert on the question. Sara Vienna (https://x.com/sravienna?lang=en) , the Chief Design Officer at Metal...Show More
2) Gabe Valdivia - How to Thrive as an Independent Designer
I think we're entering a world where the market for fractional design is about to explode…So this week's episode is with one of my favorite people in the industry, Gabe Valdivia.We're going to explore...Show More
3) Dan Winer - How to become more strategic and advance your career
My guest this week, [Dan Winer](https://valdelama.com/), has literally built a course around teaching designers how to increase their influence.We discuss what Dan looks for when he is hiring at Kit a...Show More
4) Andy Zhang - From early Figma to design engineer at Windsurf
This week's episode is with Andy Zhang who was the lead design engineer at Windsurf. So we're going to shine a light on all of the ways you can make an impact as a design engineer including:Owning mor...Show More
5) Vitaly Friedman - Beyond Chat: What's Next for AI Design Patterns
I’d bet real money that you have been on Smashing Magazine at some point in the last 18 years…Good news is, this week I got to interview the founder, Vitaly Friedman, who is also one of the leading th...Show More
6) Pietro Schirano - AI just gave designers a promotion
This week’s episode is with Pietro Schirano who is the founder of the new design tool MagicPath and one of the true forward thinkers on AI. We go deep into the future of prototyping, design workflows,...Show More
7) Why AI has changed prototyping forever
This week I got an inside look at Figma Make while talking to Holly and Nikolas all about the future of prototyping…We get into real world use cases for different kinds of prototypes and how our workf...Show More
8) Gunnar Gray - Designing Perplexity, shaders, and voice interfaces
This week, Gunnar Gray (Product Design Lead at Perplexity) breaks down what it takes to design AI-native experiences.He shares lessons from building Perplexity’s voice mode and explains how prototypin...Show More
9) Ryo Lu - Designing the future of Cursor
Cursor is easily one of the most impactful companies in all of tech…And this week's episode is with their Head of Design, Ryo Lu.You might've heard of Ryo in this episode back when we talked about ear...Show More
10) Julian Lehr - How storytelling works at Linear
This week's episode is with Julian Lehr who is the storytelling lead at LinearSo we're going to step out of the pixels for this conversation and focus more on how you can get people excited about what...Show More