Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In last week’s episode (youtu.be/sbQCYmnNHVY?feature=shared&t=2938), the Head of Design at The Browser Company shared a totally new way to think about your portfolio.
He says one of the most valuable things you can demonstrate today is the ability to solve real problems with code (no matter how small).
I’m literally doing this with a side project right now and I’ve learned a lot so I decided to share my new playbook for vibe coding 👇
Teo Connor (VP of Design at Airbnb): dive.club/deep-dives/air-bnb
Alex Schleifer (former Chief Design Offer at Airbnb): dive.club/deep-dives/alex-schleifer
Janum Trivedi (prototyping specialist at Airbnb): dive.club/deep-dives/janum-trivedi
Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿
🌐 dive.club
🐦 twitter.com/joindiveclub
Now you can join advanced courses taught by the top designers to help you take a huge leap forward in your career 💪
In last week’s episode (youtu.be/sbQCYmnNHVY?feature=shared&t=2938), the Head of Design at The Browser Company shared a totally new way to think about your portfolio.
He says one of the most valuable things you can demonstrate today is the ability to solve real problems with code (no matter how small).
I’m literally doing this with a side project right now and I’ve learned a lot so I decided to share my new playbook for vibe coding 👇
Teo Connor (VP of Design at Airbnb): dive.club/deep-dives/air-bnb
Alex Schleifer (former Chief Design Offer at Airbnb): dive.club/deep-dives/alex-schleifer
Janum Trivedi (prototyping specialist at Airbnb): dive.club/deep-dives/janum-trivedi
Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿
🌐 dive.club
🐦 twitter.com/joindiveclub
Now you can join advanced courses taught by the top designers to help you take a huge leap forward in your career 💪

. So were going to shine a light on all of the ways you can make an impact as a design engineer including:
- Owning more of the frontend polish
- Thinking through design patterns and packaging features
- Bridging the gap between technical features and intuitive UX
- Saying “no” to features to preserve the simplicity of the system
He also shares some great stories and advice including:
- What it was like working as an intern at Figma with less than 10 people
- How designers can start to get more comfortable with code
- How he taps into his experience as a PM at Uber while selecting the right design process
- + a *lot* more
- Rasmus Andersson (https://x.com/rsms) - Designer/engineer at Figma, mentor to Andy
- Kevin Hou (https://x.com/kevinhou22?lang=en) - Lead product engineering at Windsurf, Andy’s basketball teammate who helped him get the job
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:10 Andys internship at Figma
10:35 Finding a role as a generalist
16:22 Moving needles with design patterns
21:24 Systems thinking in a world thats changing so fast
23:20 Andys creative process as a design engineer
26:38 Andys process for working on new features
31:03 What happens when there are so many new workflows
34:34 How much coding Andy is doing
40:26 How Andy wants to position his career moving forward
42:16 Andys favorite part about the Windsurf culture
43:57 Advice for people interested in design engineering
Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿
🌐 dive.club
🐦 twitter.com/joindiveclub
Now you can join advanced courses taught by the top designers to help you take a huge leap forward in your career 💪 Andy Zhang - From early Figma to design engineer at Windsurf](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m3CWTCdoYpg/mqdefault.jpg)








