Dive Club 🤿

This week's episode is with Kyle Zantos who is officially the first person to make three appearances on Dive Club 🫢
Seems like AI totally transforms the design process every few months so Kyle and I play a little ping pong and share some of the workflows that we've been having success with lately.
This is easily one of the most practical episodes on the channel and hopefully you come out of here with some specific tactics you can add to your practice.
Some highlights:
- 5 use cases for designing with HTML docs
- How you can build a UX writing environment
- My new Supercut MCP workflow for prompting
- How Kyle explores with node-based workflows
- Strategies for brainstorming UX ideas with Fable
- How to decide when to invest in a personal design tool
- + a lot more

- Terminal Graph app (by Caden Williams, Internet Development Studio, Pike Place, Seattle) -https://terminalgraph.com/
- Supercut MCP - https://supercut.ai/agents
- Emil Kowalski - https://emilkowal.ski/
- Jakob Krehel - https://x.com/jakubkrehel
- Jhey Tompkins - https://x.com/jh3yy?lang=en

Did you know Claude Design started off as a side project from one person?
That's what this week's episode with Nate Parrott is all about. He shares the origin story along with a ton of examples of how he's using Claude Design in his own workflow.
Some highlights:
- Nate’s tips for getting the most out of Claude Design
- Storytelling and communication tactics for designers
- How Nate views the landscape for design tooling today
- How “weatherman mode” turned into a killer voice mode
- How Claude Design went from side project to launch in ~3 months
- Examples of how Anthropic designers build artifacts across mediums
- + a lot more

Claude Design (Anthropic) - https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs

Charlie Deets (https://x.com/charliedeets) has designed Safari, Arc, and now Dia…
Needless to say he knows a thing or two about designing browsers 😅
So in this week’s episode Charlie shares the principles that guide his design practice and takes us on a tour of some of the finer craft details inside Dia.
Some highlights:
- Charlie’s tips for presenting design work
- How to protect your special sauce as a designer
- What makes Apple’s decision-making culture unique
- The differences between designing at Apple vs. The Browser Co.
- Why Charlie is spending more time in Figma and less time prototyping with AI
- + a lot more

- Nate Parrott episode on Dive Club (first design hire at the Browser Company): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/nate-parrott
- Gabriel Valdivia episode on Dive Club: https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/gabe-valdivia-2

Pablo Stanley (https://www.pablostanley.com/) has built as many creative tools as anyone in our industry.
So in this episode he gives us a behind-the-scenes of his latest creations (including how he prototyped the all-new design mode in Vercel's v0).
We go deep into:
- The two types of design builders at Vercel
- Pablo's approach to prototyping the new v0
- Behind the scenes of Pablo's custom design tools
- What historic artists teach us about AI and creativity
- How Pablo gets people excited about his ideas with Loom
- The moment Pablo realized “I don’t design like this anymore”

- Efecto: Pablo’s design tool with shaders, ASCII effects, and AI agents on the canvas (https://efecto.app/)
- hilos: Pablo’s team chat that ships code (https://hilos.sh/)

Jason Yuan (https://x.com/jasonyuan) has one of the most fascinating minds in design so naturally I like to keep tabs on what he is creating 😎
This episode is a deep dive into Jason Yuan’s creative process for Hivemind (his new social intelligence product).
He screenshares dozens of unused concepts, novel art directions, brand identities, and everything in between.
Some highlights:
- The journey of designing Dot
- Why Jason doesn’t believe in user research
- The surprising sources Jason uses for design inspo
- building a system to generate infinite branded images
- How Jason thinks about art direction and world building
- + a lot more