- Dive Club
- Posts
- 🤿 owning the frontend
Andy Madrick is the perfect example of what it looks like to own the frontend as a designer in 2026.
So this episode is a deep dive into how he works at Notion:
How he owns the last mile in code
How he uses visual explainers as prompts
When he uses Figma vs. jumps straight into code
How he empowers the content team to make edits to his prototypes
+ a lot more
We even get a behind-the-scenes of how he designed one of Notion’s most visible interfaces 👀
👥 FEATURED RESOURCE
big Inflight update
Now that we’re all building with AI, feedback has become the bottleneck.
But today’s Inflight update fixes that.
NowNoNow you can get structured feedback on your prototypes which automatically loops back into Claude/Codex as next steps.
I just posted a ~60s demo on Twitter and Linkedin.
If you wanted to take a minute to support it would sure mean a lot :)
🔗 FEATURED RESOURCES
Want to see my design workflow?
 | Every time I tweet about my workflow people ask for me to turn it into an episode. Instead, I’m going to host a 1 hour live workshop with Kyle Zantos where I give a full behind-the-scenes of how I build with AI. If you’re interested in owning the frontend as a designer I think it’ll be a good time. Oh and it’s free :) |
AI in Design Report 2026
 | Remember Ben from DesignerFund? Well his team put together a fascinating report on the state of AI design today. The answers come from over 900 designers at startups, enterprises, and agencies who work across disciplines like product design, brand design, research, and design engineering 👇 |
🤝 WITH GRANOLA
As a designer I’m always talking to people… team meetings, design CRIT, user interviews.
So it’s super important to capture the ideas and feedback I’m getting.
That’s why I never ever ever ever have a conversation about design without running Granola in the background.
So when the meeting ends, Granola enhances the notes I’ve written and I can even ask questions or get tailored summaries from the call.
It’s like a super-powered notes app that actually understands your meetings and it has quickly become a staple tool in my design practice.
Every designer should be using this 😎 Get a free month with code DIVECLUB 👇
🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE
2 things I saved this week
1️⃣ White-outlined icons
This is pretty quickly becoming my favorite icon style… almost sticker-like 👌
2️⃣ Petra labs hero section
Remember Soren Iverson? His agency Iverson just released a banger of a new website. I love the hero section specifically.
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