🤿 popcorn time

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Ridd
September 02, 2026

This week’s episode is with Evil Rabbit who is the founding designer at Vercel and an iconic figure in the design community.

He shares his design journey (which started with his first job in Argentina at 9 years old) and how he built the Vercel brand.

Some highlights:

  • What it takes to design an iconic brand identity

  • How Vercel’s new Creative Studio team operates

  • How he landed his first design job at 12 years old in Argentina

  • Why Vercel is shifting from designing assets to building tools

  • What he learned from working directly with Guillermo (Vercel CEO)

  • + a lot more

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

📣 FEATURED RESOURCE

The rise of HTML

soooo I've been interviewing a ton of designers/teams lately for Inflight and let me tell ya...

HTML prototypes are becoming very popular 📈

I use them all day long for quick prototypes but the problem is sharing them + getting feedback is super awkward.

That’s why we’re making HTML a huge part of the all-new Inflight:

⇢ upload an HTML
⇢ get a shareable link
⇢ allow pinned comments + video

This feature pretty much changed my workflow overnight so I’m excited to see what you think 👇

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCES

HTML state machines

Remember Anthony Menecola?

He shared one of my favorite use cases for HTML prototypes which is building little state machines to control my prototypes.

Hopefully this sparks some ideas for your own work :) Oh and Owner is hiring in the talent network if you want to join him ✌️

UI Skills Playbook

This website is a whole page of practical design-engineering lessons (best practices for skeletons, pressed states, typography, etc.). Definitely worth a bookmark.

Procedural UI sound generator

So I’ve been building sound board tools to nail down the sound.md file for Inflight and came across this very cool resource from Mick.

Will be sharing what I built on Thursday’s Dive Radio if you want to learn more (you can add to calendar here). I’ve never done anything like this before and it’s a blast :)

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🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE

3 things I saved this week

1️⃣ Composer interaction

I’ve seen a lot of composer designs but nothing quite like this from Ayush before 👌

2️⃣ That’s gonna leave a mark

Remember Matt Sellers? My man drops banger after banger on Twitter. I probably watched this 25 times.

3️⃣ Supercut testimonials section

I really like the grid approach on the new Supercut website (especially the testimonials layout)

📻 DIVE RADIO

How to engineer a brand universe

Tune in to Dive Radio tomorrow at 4pmEST/1PST!

We’ll be sharing some special sneak peeks of how the best teams are building internal brand tools 👀

Just wait til you see what Metalab has cooked up…

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- Ridd

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