Dive Club 🤿

This week we are going behind the scenes of Config 2026 with Loredana Crisan (Figma’s Chief Design Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanacrisan/
We talk about Figma’s vision for AI, why design is having “an identity crisis and a renaissance at the same time,” and what it means to use AI to express what’s already in your head (not outsource creativity to it).
It’s a clarifying conversation about taste, tools, and the future of design 👇
Some highlights:
- Designing systems not screens
- Loredana’s mental model for AI as a tool
- Building your own tools and mini apps in Figma
- What Figma is learning in their own UX research
- What types of designers Figma is hiring right now
- + a lot more

What does it look like when a designer with zero technical background commits to shipping something real?
That’s what this week’s episode with Brett Williams is all about.
He gives us a behind-the-scenes of his journey building Gather including:
Brett’s process for iterating on a design
Brett’s new prototyping.md skill workflow
How Brett maintains control while building with AI
Brett’s strategy for adding sound design to Gather
When Brett relies on Figma vs. explores directly in code
a lot more

This week's episode is with Ron Goldin who has led design at Google, Shopify, UberEats, and in my opinion... he's the perfect example of what it looks like to thrive as a design leader in an AI world.
So this week’s episode is a deep dive into his journey as a builder and it’s full of stories:
Redesigning the Shopify checkout
Ron’s unique research tactics for UberEats
Building MTCHMKR from scratch in Lovable
Navigating the job market as a design leader
a lot more

A couple of weeks ago I recorded my first ever episode in front of a live audience (at Ramp HQ in NYC) 🗽
So today I’m excited to share the panel discussion recording with 3 incredible guests:
Meaghan Choi who is the design lead for Claude Code and Cowork
Dan Shipper who is the CEO of Every and one of my favorite thinkers when it comes to AI
And Bradley Ziffer who is a design engineer at Ramp
It’s a deep dive into AI design workflows at Anthropic, Ramp, and Every and I think you’ll enjoy it :)

The event was hosted by Double Diamond and Ramp

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Andy Madrick ( https://x.com/andymadrick ) is rethinking what it means to be a designer in 2026.
While at Notion, he’s developed a workflow where he prototypes directly in code, ships frontend PRs, and uses AI tools like Cursor to own the final polish of user interfaces.
In this episode we get a look into how he keeps all these things in motion and still designs with insane attention to detail.
Some highlights:
Building one of Notion’s most visible UIs
Why recreating interactions teaches you craft
Owning the last 5-20% of frontend polish work
The “jelly bean factory” problem with AI output
When to start in Figma vs. jumping straight to code
How Andy creates prototypes that content teams can edit
a lot more