Dive Club 🤿

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

Did you know Claude Design started off as a side project from one person?
That's what this week's episode with Nate Parrott is all about. He shares the origin story along with a ton of examples of how he's using Claude Design in his own workflow.
Some highlights:
- Nate’s tips for getting the most out of Claude Design
- Storytelling and communication tactics for designers
- How Nate views the landscape for design tooling today
- How “weatherman mode” turned into a killer voice mode
- How Claude Design went from side project to launch in ~3 months
- Examples of how Anthropic designers build artifacts across mediums
- + a lot more

Claude Design (Anthropic) - https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs

Charlie Deets (https://x.com/charliedeets) has designed Safari, Arc, and now Dia…
Needless to say he knows a thing or two about designing browsers 😅
So in this week’s episode Charlie shares the principles that guide his design practice and takes us on a tour of some of the finer craft details inside Dia.
Some highlights:
- Charlie’s tips for presenting design work
- How to protect your special sauce as a designer
- What makes Apple’s decision-making culture unique
- The differences between designing at Apple vs. The Browser Co.
- Why Charlie is spending more time in Figma and less time prototyping with AI
- + a lot more

- Nate Parrott episode on Dive Club (first design hire at the Browser Company): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/nate-parrott
- Gabriel Valdivia episode on Dive Club: https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/gabe-valdivia-2