Dive Club 🤿 Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise design
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Sep 15, 2026 
Nev Flynn, Head of Design at ElevenLabs, explores how artful expression can thrive in enterprise design. He discusses specialist talent, visualizing 40 million AI voices with shader orbs, and building agent-native design systems. They also delve into internal brand tools, emerging brand systems engineers, portfolio evaluation, and designing interfaces for entirely new AI capabilities.
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ElevenLabs Builds Sonic Branding From Thousands Of Sounds
- ElevenLabs developed sonic branding as thousands of individually composed sound elements rather than generic background music.
- The sound shifts by audience, from expressive consumer-facing Eleven Music to more enterprise-oriented Eleven Agents.
How ElevenLabs Turned 40 Million Voices Into Orbs
- ElevenLabs visualized 40 million voices by translating voice embeddings into unique real-time WebGL orb shaders.
- Pitch controls darkness while expressiveness controls visual detail, helping viewers intuitively associate appearance with sound.
Creative Systems Need Technical And Artistic Iteration
- The orb system combined creative iteration with serious engineering, including shader layering, audio reactivity, caching, and performance optimization.
- Internal playgrounds let designers tune parameters, test the entire voice library, and correct unwanted visual distributions before launch.