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🤿 fingerprints

insights from the Browser Company's founding designer 👀

Ridd
August 01, 2024

We’ve put consistency on a pedestal.

After all, this is the key to usability, efficiency, learnability… right?

Right??

Well after interviewing the founding designer of the Browser Company, one thing is clear…

The team designing Arc is doing things differently (and it’s working).

Here’s what makes their approach so unique 👇

QUICK POP QUIZ...

What do Shopify, Mercury, and GrubHub have in common?

All 3 of them keep coming back to me to enroll more of their designers in Figma Academy.

Because it goes beyond the basic features and teaches you advanced tactics that you can use to become more valuable to your team.

We have weekly live sessions where we get into the weeds of systems strategies, speed workflows, advanced prototyping, etc.

And I even give personalized feedback on all of your work throughout the program 💯

So if you want to take your craft to the next level I have a special offer for the Dive community (use DIVECLUB) 👇

📺 THIS WEEK’S EPISODE

Insights from the founding designer of the Browser Company

Arc is easily one of my favorite products of the last 5 years which is why I’m so excited about this interview with their founding designer, Nate Parrott.

It’s an inside look at what makes design at the Browser Company so unique. We jam about:

How Nate went from engineer at Snap to the Browser Co.
Why design at Arc prioritizes fingerprints > consistency
How Nate collaborates with engineers on Arc
The story behind Arc Search’s hook feature
The Browser Co’s culture of prototyping
How Nate balances intuition and data
+ a lot more…

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

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCE

Depth and shadow tutorial

Oğuz recently posted a tutorial and Figma file showing how he creates depth effects in Figma.

He’s been one of my favorite visual designers for a long time now and this is a rare look under the hood.

If you’re looking for ways to add that extra bit of polish to your UI then this is the resource for you 👇

TOGETHER WITH RAYCAST

How Charlie Deets uses Raycast

One of the designers working on Arc that I really look up to is Charlie Deets (you might recognize him from his work on Safari or the “swipe to reply” interaction in Whatsapp).

Like me, Charlie is a die hard Raycast user and he made a great ~4 min walkthrough of how he gets the most out of the product 👇

🤿 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👇

Jitter → How I animate my designs

Framer → How I build my websites

Maven→ How I invest in my career

Raycast→ How I do pretty much everything on my computer

🧠 Ideas you might've missed

We need more vitamin products

Time to move from "problem focused" to "benefit focused"

5 steps for prototyping with variables in Figma

A simple process to making prototyping with variables easy

📺 Episodes you might've missed

A glimpse of what's next for design tooling
Dan LaCivita (Co-Founder of Play)

Defining the visual language for DoorDash
Kathryn Gonzalez (First Designer at DoorDash)

Becoming a creative problem solver
Rich Arnold (Design leader at Vine, IG & Coinbase)

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