Ryd (Rid)
Founder, Dive Club. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Michael Riddering is a product designer and educator recognized for creating Dive Club and the Figma Academy course, as well as formerly serving as founding designer at Maven. He hosts the Dive Club podcast exploring design craft and co-founded the design feedback tool Inflight.
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Everything Ryd (Rid) said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Riddering: The modern web is built entirely on Tailwind CSS
“Everything's built on Tailwind. Like the modern web uses Tailwind. You can't really get away with it.”
Riddering: Vercel's v0 outputs feel tame and templated compared to Figma
“Like everything that V zero is going to give you is going to feel tame, slightly templated. Figma is the way to like push visual ideas and really figure out what you want to make.”
Riddering: High-fidelity design and code workflows will inevitably merge
“This idea of having high fidelity design and high fidelity code be separate, that does not feel like it's going to exist in the long run to me.”
Riddering: Figma components are early-stage speed hacks, not enterprise systems
“And a lot of people associate the word component with like design systems and Polaris and enterprise and yada, yada, but actually like components as really hacky speed mechanisms in Figma are amazing. I use them all the time. Because my goal is like, I never w…”
Riddering: Good design is primarily about out-iterating everyone else
“If you want to be a good designer, it's like actually just about trying more things than everyone else. And so the faster that you can try things, the better that you're going to be, because you just kind of got to get through all of the slop.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ryd's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder, Dive Club | 1 | 6 | — | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |