Ryd (Rid)

Founder, Dive Club · 1 appearance on the record.

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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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Opinion

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.”

Ryd (Rid) Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 16:48 Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!

Opinion

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.”

Ryd (Rid) Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 36:05 Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!

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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.”

Ryd (Rid) Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 38:26 Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!

Insight

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…”

Ryd (Rid) Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 2:47 Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!

Insight

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.”

Ryd (Rid) Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 12:48 Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!

Insight

Riddering: Designers should avoid bloated libraries of Figma plugins

“Figma out of the box has actually gotten pretty good. I don't think that you should stress out about having to build this repertoire of like 20 different plugins.”

Ryd (Rid) Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 32:44 Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!	Nov 22, 2024	30m

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