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🤿 black void

designing creative tools (v0, hilos, and more)

Ridd
July 21, 2026

Pablo Stanley 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”

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

👥 FEATURED RESOURCE

Talent network updates

In the past week, listeners have been hired at companies like Superpower, Lovable, and Moment. Insane, right?

And we’re just getting started…

I’m currently promoting designers to companies like:

Conductor (my tool of choice)
Iverson (the meme lord himself)
Legora (opening new NYC office)
Railway (rocketship we use at Inflight)
Primary (Nick Pattison’s branding studio)
+ a lot more

If you’re quietly open to new opportunities take 30 second and drop your info here so companies can apply to chat with you ✌️

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCES

Rows demo

My friend sent me this demo over the weekend and it’s incredible. I highly recommend spending a couple minutes clicking around to feel the interactions (make sure your sound is up too!). Then after you’re done, bask in the beauty that is this copywriting.

Make sure the fire is still alive

ICYMI Cursor took over design Twitter after Jenny, Manuel, and Tyler announced they were joining. Which naturally had people asking about Ryo Lu… well, I think his recent post is worth a read.

Career advice for designers

Dive Club OGs remember Anthony Hobday.

He just shared a great article full of practical career advice for designers. My favorite part is where he gives 10 ways to look impressive without having impressive projects or jobs on your resume.

🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE

3 things I saved this week

1️⃣ New heyclicky website

I love everything about this vibe. We need more aqua buttons in the world 👌

See it live →

2️⃣ Nice button hover state

Luis Ouriach shared the new Griffin website on Twitter the other day and it’s really well done. My favorite part is definitely the button hover state though.

See it live →