🤿 death of a design engineer

When I say high stakes design project, what comes to mind?

How about Ryan Scott redesigning the Airbnb checkout flow right before a  $3.5 billion IPO? Now THAT is a big time project…

So this episode is all about tactics you can use to make big ideas happen at your company (even as an IC) 👇

🤝 WITH GENWAY

So this new product called Genway has totally changed the way I do research.

It uses AI-powered interviewers to help you get rich, qualitative data at basically an infinite scale.

You can even interview people while they use your Figma prototypes! Just tell their AI what you’re hoping to test and it will have a dynamic conversation with each person (it asks some pretty killer follow-up questions too).

The best part is they’re offering 2 months free for Dive Club listeners 💙 And their new self-serve onboarding means you can get started right away.

PS. You even get 10 credits to recruit participants from their panel!

Check it out👇

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Building a portfolio page using v0

Over the last few weeks I’ve been going through an AI coding bootcamp alongside other non-engineers.

It’s been pretty incredible not gonna lie…

So I asked the instructors if they could put together a lesson specifically for the Dive community and they agreed!

So here’s a step-by-step tutorial to help you build your ideas with v0 👇

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Death of a design engineer

Remember when John Pham said design engineering is just a temporary role?

His prediction might already be coming true…

Sahil Lavingia (the founder of Gumroad) recently wrote a post titled “Death of the Design Engineer”. It felt important so I asked him if I could share it with you as an article and he agreed.

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Oguz’s daily finds

You might’ve noticed that I'm regularly featuring Oguz in the weekly inspiration juice.

It's because he has some of the best taste of any designer I follow on Twitter.

Anyway… last week he announced his new Daily Finds project which is a curated set of design inspiration. So this is definitely a link you'll want to bookmark moving forward 👇

🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE

3 things I saved this week

1️⃣ Patrick Morgan’s newsletter imagery

This art direction is incredible and I'm definitely going to use it as a source of inspiration for future Visual Electric experiments (friendly reminder you can get a free month with the code DIVECLUB).

Check it out →

2️⃣ Modal with nested container

I've saved a heck of a lot of modal designs. And I don't think I've seen one quite like this before.

I really like how the content exists in a nested container and the CTAs and headers exist in negative space. Most of the time I see the opposite approach. But this works really well and I'll probably copy it in the future.

Check it out →

3️⃣ Hover to highlight feature video

While researching for last week's episode, I found myself saving a lot of design details on the new Craft website.

This feature card pattern was one of my favorites. It's so simple, but feels really good to interact with.

And showcasing the UI with real people interacting with the mockups adds a nice human touch (reminds me of the Linear mobile page)

Check it out →

Meet the Dive partners 

I made a list of my favorite products and asked them to come on as sponsors of the newsletter/podcast. They said yes 🥹

The #1 way to support Dive Club is to check them out👇

Dessn → How I ship like a design engineer

Framer​ → How I build my websites

Genway → How I do research

Jitter​ → How I animate my designs

Play → How I design mobile apps

Raycast ​ → How I do most things on my computer

Visual Electric → How I generate imagery

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