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navigating change as a designer

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Ridd
September 23, 2026

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.

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

Watch on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇

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That Crisp Interface Is Going To Date

Clean UI used to be a selling point. Now that look is a single prompt away, so we gotta dig deeper as designers to stand out.

It's one of the reasons I keep sharing Geoff Teehan's rows.gg (which we talk about in today’s episode). That’s the opposite of minimalism in many ways… but it’s dope.

How we built Interfere’s new website

I've been noticing a trend where designers are skipping static images on their landing pages and building out fully interactive demos instead.

This case study walks through how Interfere built theirs (and why the approach is so compelling) 👀

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3 things I saved this week

1️⃣ Shrey Gupta’s personal website

A trend I'm loving right now is personal sites built around vertical columns. Shrey's transitions are pretty impressive and the sound design is a nice touch too 🎧

2️⃣ infinite faq

If you somehow missed this viral pattern… definitely take a look because you're about to be seeing it everywhere. Amazing how you can still design something that makes a million people go “oh duh that’s brilliant”.

3️⃣ Horizontal scroll transition

I find the visual language on the new blink.trade site quite fresh and the scroll transitions are well executed too

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- Ridd

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