Dive Club
Two designers start a company while AI changes design
with Kyle Barber, 59 min
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- Guest
- Kyle Barber
- Published
- Length
- 59 min
- Views when added
- 4,791
- Channel subscribers
- 69,500
Chapters from YouTube
- This is a design podcast where the host, Ridd, interviews his own co-founder, Kyle Barber, about their startup.
- Inflight is a tool for getting feedback on design work. So this is the host talking about his own product.
- Both are designers. Ridd taught Figma, the main design app, and Kyle was the only designer at Airchat.
- Designers used to live in Figma. In about a year many moved to code with AI, and Inflight's plans kept breaking.
- They think they've built at least 10 products so far, and narrowing down to code is what finally helped.
- Ridd also talks about his Christian faith, which he says is an unfamiliar turn for his show.
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Inflight began as Kyle's way to collect feedback on his own designs.
The two designers split the work, and AI let each do far more.
Their bets on how designers would work kept getting overtaken.
Trying to serve every designer spread a small team too thin.
Dropping everything except code finally made the product simple.
Both founders say the lowest points went beyond the product.
Ridd's faith and the founders' trust in each other got them through.
Now that people use the product, they have to build the business.
If you only watch 14 min
Best if you're a designer thinking about starting something of your own.
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