Dive Club 🤿

Escha Vera - Designing Perplexity’s Comet and Using AI Like an Artist


Listen Later

Imagine it’s your first day as a designer at Perplexity... and the VP of Design hands you the keys for their all-new AI browser, [Comet](https://www.perplexity.ai/comet).

That’s the story for [Escha Vera](https://x.com/eschadiol).

So this week’s episode is a deep dive into her design process and what it looks like to use AI like an artist.

- How she designed Comet onboarding experience

- Creating generative invite codes using multiple AI tools

- How she created the Perplexity design system from scratch

- How she productized AI without leading with chat interfaces or prompts

- What are her principles for designing AI experiences that prioritize usability

- + a lot more

- [Soleio](https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/soleio-2) sent the intro to [Henry Modisett](https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/henry-modisett)

- She worked at [Descript](https://x.com/descriptapp) before joining [Perplexity](https://x.com/perplexity_ai)

- Previously worked on [Daylight Computer](https://x.com/daylightco) and Motif

- Collaborating with [Phi Hong](https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/phi-hoang) on branding at Perplexity

- Uses [Suno](https://suno.com/home?wpsrc=Google%20AdWords&wpcid=22042553892&wpscid=173890219393&wpcrid=726251362516&wpkwid=kwd-2827037661&wpkwn=suno&wpkmatch=e&wpsnetn=g&gad_campaignid=22042553892&gbraid=0AAAAA9pWpduFan7icL90FczgyQploCsYi) for music generation and remixing

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Dive Club 🤿By Ridd

  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9

4.9

30 ratings


More shows like Dive Club 🤿

View all
a16z Podcast by Andreessen Horowitz

a16z Podcast

1,088 Listeners

Decoder with Nilay Patel by The Verge

Decoder with Nilay Patel

3,142 Listeners

Y Combinator Startup Podcast by Y Combinator

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

228 Listeners

Design Better by The Curiosity Department, sponsored by Wix Studio

Design Better

322 Listeners

NN/g UX Podcast by Nielsen Norman Group

NN/g UX Podcast

107 Listeners

Hard Fork by The New York Times

Hard Fork

5,476 Listeners

Product Thinking by Melissa Perri

Product Thinking

147 Listeners

The Startup Ideas Podcast by Greg Isenberg

The Startup Ideas Podcast

203 Listeners

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups by Conviction

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

133 Listeners

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast by swyx + Alessio

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

96 Listeners

The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis by Nathaniel Whittemore

The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

557 Listeners

AI and I by Dan Shipper

AI and I

37 Listeners

AI + a16z by a16z

AI + a16z

33 Listeners

Lightcone Podcast by Y Combinator

Lightcone Podcast

19 Listeners

OpenAI Podcast by OpenAI

OpenAI Podcast

54 Listeners