Dive Club 🤿

This week's episode is with Ed Bayes and we're doing a deep dive into how designers at OpenAI prototype the future of Codex/ChatGPT Work.
Some highlights:
- How prototyping at OpenAI has shifted recently
- The design challenges of bringing Codex into ChatGPT
- How Ed thinks about the spectrum of dynamic interfaces
- How Codex thought about their information architecture bets
- Why Ed structures design teams around personas not features
- The traits of the designers making the biggest impact at OpenAI
- + a lot more

The Bitter Lesson (http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html) — ML essay he referenced on scaffolding and model releases

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 12 years old)
So he’s going to share his journey in design and what it was like
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

Grok Bot has been going viral the last two weeks so this week's episode is a behind-the-scenes of the design journey with John Bai (who was the first NYC design hire at Cursor).
He screen-shares a ton of agent interaction pattern ideas as well as his unused concepts for the Grok Bot onboarding flow.
Some highlights:
- The prototype that led to the Grok Bot mascot
- Why John realized chat was still the right UX for AI
- How John uses agents to streamline his Figma work
- Comparing John's onboarding concepts for Grok Bot
- Why John still starts his design explorations in Figma
- What it took to turn AI agents into a consumer product
- Why no two designers at Cursor have the same tools/process
- + a lot more

Ridd mentioned Colin Dunn’s episode ("informed simplicity")

This week's episode is with Patrick Morgan and we're doing a deep dive into the prototyping environment he built for Sublime Security.
What started as an attempt to organize his team’s prototypes ended up becoming a new type of AI design tool. It's a great example of how designers can level up the team by building thoughtful internal tools.
Some highlights:
How Patrick hacks low-fidelity styles with AI
Patrick’s vision for agent-native design handoff
How Patrick built a canvas to organize prototypes
The design principles that guide how the agent prototypes
How Patrick built a system to port over production frontend
How the brand team uses Design Studio to build internal tools
a lot more

This week's episode is with Kyle Zantos who is officially the first person to make three appearances on Dive Club 🫢
Seems like AI totally transforms the design process every few months so Kyle and I play a little ping pong and share some of the workflows that we've been having success with lately.
This is easily one of the most practical episodes on the channel and hopefully you come out of here with some specific tactics you can add to your practice.
Some highlights:
- 5 use cases for designing with HTML docs
- How you can build a UX writing environment
- My new Supercut MCP workflow for prompting
- How Kyle explores with node-based workflows
- Strategies for brainstorming UX ideas with Fable
- How to decide when to invest in a personal design tool
- + a lot more

- Terminal Graph app (by Caden Williams, Internet Development Studio, Pike Place, Seattle) -https://terminalgraph.com/
- Supercut MCP - https://supercut.ai/agents
- Emil Kowalski - https://emilkowal.ski/
- Jakob Krehel - https://x.com/jakubkrehel
- Jhey Tompkins - https://x.com/jh3yy?lang=en