Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Lovable ( join.dive.club/lovable-content ) has quickly become the go-to way I build my ideas with AI and this week we get to hear from their first designer Nad Chishtie ( https://x.com/nadonomy ).
We go deep into what it takes to succeed as a founding designer and all of the ways AI is shaping modern product teams.
Some highlights:
- Nad’s tips for collaborating creatively with AI tools
- How designers can be enablers instead of bottlenecks
- How Nad balances Figma with new AI tools like Lovable
- Why Lovable built and deleted a Figma-like layers panel
- What it’s like at the fastest growing startup in European history
- + a *lot* more
Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿
- Nad mentions one of his favorite AI tools Granola (join.dive.club/granola-content)
- I talked about Unicorn Studio (https://www.unicorn.studio/)
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:59 Experimenting with LLMs
3:12 Discovering GPT Engineer
4:32 Technical Background and Design Philosophy
7:20 Life as the Sole Designer at a Fast-Growing Startup
8:26 Designing for High Velocity and Quality
10:33 Advice for founding designers
12:02 Advice for Aspiring Startup Designers
15:56 Exploring the new Visual Editing feature
24:27 The Future of Design Tooling
28:09 Understanding MCP for designers
31:31 Balancing Technicality and Accessibility
32:40 Promoting Flow and Clock Speed
40:45 The Future of Design and AI Integration
46:25 Encouraging Experimentation and Learning
48:56 Building a High-Agency Team
🌐 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 💪
Lovable ( join.dive.club/lovable-content ) has quickly become the go-to way I build my ideas with AI and this week we get to hear from their first designer Nad Chishtie ( https://x.com/nadonomy ).
We go deep into what it takes to succeed as a founding designer and all of the ways AI is shaping modern product teams.
Some highlights:
- Nad’s tips for collaborating creatively with AI tools
- How designers can be enablers instead of bottlenecks
- How Nad balances Figma with new AI tools like Lovable
- Why Lovable built and deleted a Figma-like layers panel
- What it’s like at the fastest growing startup in European history
- + a *lot* more
Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿
- Nad mentions one of his favorite AI tools Granola (join.dive.club/granola-content)
- I talked about Unicorn Studio (https://www.unicorn.studio/)
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:59 Experimenting with LLMs
3:12 Discovering GPT Engineer
4:32 Technical Background and Design Philosophy
7:20 Life as the Sole Designer at a Fast-Growing Startup
8:26 Designing for High Velocity and Quality
10:33 Advice for founding designers
12:02 Advice for Aspiring Startup Designers
15:56 Exploring the new Visual Editing feature
24:27 The Future of Design Tooling
28:09 Understanding MCP for designers
31:31 Balancing Technicality and Accessibility
32:40 Promoting Flow and Clock Speed
40:45 The Future of Design and AI Integration
46:25 Encouraging Experimentation and Learning
48:56 Building a High-Agency Team
🌐 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 💪
