Steph Golik, an early design leader at Cruise, discusses how designers can transition to entrepreneurship and raise venture funding. Highlights include the advantages of designers in entrepreneurship, the role of design in startups, their journey to becoming a founder, investing in selling for fundraising and customers, their background in transportation architecture, de-risking their startup Huddle, and a new course for designers wanting to start their own companies.

Fons Mans, the designer of the Dive brand, discusses his branding process and strategies for creating standout visuals. Topics include brand manifestos, mood boards, structuring Figma files, light mode vs dark mode, designing for new platforms, and recreating work to improve visual skills.

Charli Marie, Creative Director at ConvertKit, discusses insights about brand and marketing strategy, data storytelling, and career growth. Topics include advocating for a promotion, contributing to company strategy, balancing creativity and data-driven decision making, the importance of understanding HTML and CSS for designers, typography in design, and finding the right balance between creativity and systemizing in marketing design.

Bonnie Kate Wolf, an experienced and well-respected icon designer, shares her journey to success, including stories from designing the Netflix icon library. She discusses pricing tactics, client process, and the importance of consistency in icon design. The podcast also explores starting small with icon sets and the power of Figma in transforming the design process.

Topics discussed include storytelling in product strategy, collaborating with PMs, handling pushback in design, selling ideas, transitioning into a management role, personal growth as a leader at GASO, challenges of facilitating meetings as a designer, continuous learning, opinionated software, building a design team, and the impact of AI on design.

In this episode, Dan shares his insights on using Framer from his experience as an early adopter. He also discusses his approach to learning to code while building his own product and shares some tips for others looking to do the same. And obviously, we couldn't call it a Deep Dive without chatting a bit about the impact of AI as well as learning how Jay-Z used to influence the product roadmap at TIDAL 👀

Mia Blume, former design leader at Square and Pinterest, shares insights on increasing your influence as a designer. Topics include strategies for design critiques, challenging the status quo, collaboration between design and engineering, and working on projects at startups. They also discuss processes and organizational design strategies for small design teams.

Fonz Morris, Designer at Netflix and lifelong learner, gives a masterclass on growth design and designing at Netflix. They discuss their role as a flex designer, the challenges faced by product managers at Netflix, identifying leading indicators, improving skills, transitioning from UI/UX to growth design, asking the right questions for business insights, transitioning to design manager, and the importance of user research and experimentation in growth design.

In this episode, Jorn shares the full Framer story starting with his journey as an early designer at Facebook. He also provides insights into Framer’s 9-year overnight success story and a sneak peek of their plans moving forward. We also jam on the potential impact of AI on design—just wait until you hear Jorn's take on the future of design systems ✌️.

The podcast explores effective strategies for presenting your work, nailing your next design interview, and mastering storytelling tactics. It also discusses the importance of recognizing and tackling problems in mature companies, transitioning from Facebook to a startup, effective communication in design, negotiating job offers, and a product design interview course.