Dive Club LIVE NYC: A Guide to the First Live Taping at Ramp HQ
Dive Club LIVE brings the design podcast to Ramp HQ in Flatiron for its first live NYC taping, with Anthropic and Every in conversation.
Dive Club LIVE brings one of the most influential design podcasts of the last two years to a NYC stage for the first time. Co-hosted by Double Diamond and Ramp, the live taping lands at Ramp's Flatiron headquarters this May, pairing Dive Club host Michael Riddering with Anthropic's Meaghan Choi and Every's Dan Shipper for a panel and recorded fireside chat.
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Why Dive Club LIVE matters for NYC's design community
The event sits at the intersection of three communities that are reshaping how product designers work in 2026: Ridd's craft-and-tools-focused Dive Club podcast audience, Double Diamond's NYC salon series for designers building with AI, and Ramp's design-forward fintech orbit. Bringing them together at a live taping creates the kind of room where the conversation goes deeper than a typical panel — it's a recorded episode of one of the most-listened design podcasts, with the audience as part of the recording.
Double Diamond has spent the past year hosting intimate live conversations with figures including Jenny Wen at Anthropic, Carl Rivera at Shopify, and Ethan Proia at FLORA. Dive Club LIVE is the most ambitious edition of the series to date, and the first to combine the Double Diamond format with a Dive Club episode taping. For designers and design engineers actively integrating Claude, Cursor, Figma's MCP server, and other AI-native tools into their workflows, the lineup is unusually well-aligned with the questions they're already asking.
The host: Ridd and the rise of design-craft media
Michael Riddering — known across design Twitter as Ridd — is the founder of Figma Academy and a founding designer at Maven. His Dive Club podcast and weekly newsletter have become a reference point for how senior designers actually approach craft in the AI era — covering everything from Figma plugin mastery to using Claude Code as a design collaborator.
Hosting Dive Club LIVE in NYC is a natural extension of the show's ethos: surface the working practices of the best designers and let the audience hear how they think out loud. The on-stage format runs as a live recording, meaning the conversation will be shared with the full Dive Club listenership after the event.
On the panel: Anthropic's Meaghan Choi and Every's Dan Shipper
Meaghan Choi is a Product Designer at Anthropic, where she leads design for Claude Code and Cowork. She came to Anthropic from Cloudflare and Meta, and her recent work has emphasized the blending of design and engineering — Choi has described spending "an equal amount of time in Claude Code as she does in Figma" and shipping frontend code as part of her design role. She brings a working-practitioner view of what an AI-native design workflow actually looks like inside one of the companies building the tools.
Dan Shipper is co-founder and CEO of Every, the AI-native media-and-software company that publishes the AI & I podcast and ships multiple products from a fifteen-person team. Every has become a model for how a small group of writers and operators can build AI-first software without traditional engineering scale. Shipper brings the founder-and-builder lens to the conversation — what changes when an entire company organizes around AI tooling.
A third panelist will be announced in the lead-up to the event, with the reveal scheduled by the organizers ahead of the taping.
Format: a live podcast taping at Ramp HQ
The event runs as a hybrid between a live podcast recording and a designed evening. Doors open at 6 PM for arrivals, drinks, and networking. Short presentations from working designers and builders kick off at 7 PM, followed by a brief intermission. The fireside chat — the recorded centerpiece — begins at 7:55 PM, with Ridd interviewing the panel in podcast format. Wrap and final mingling run from 8:30 PM, and an afterparty at a nearby venue follows from 9 PM until late.
Ramp HQ at 28 West 23rd Street offers an open Floor 2 layout that the company has used for design-forward programming over the past year. The Flatiron location puts the venue a short walk from the 23rd Street stop on the F, M, N, R, and W lines.
Schedule for the night
- 6:00 PM — Doors open. Drinks and arrivals.
- 7:00 PM — Presentations from designers and builders.
- 7:45 PM — Short break.
- 7:55 PM — Fireside chat with Ridd and the panel.
- 8:30 PM — Wrap and continued mingling.
- 9:00 PM – Late — Afterparty at a nearby venue (location announced via the Luma listing).
How to attend
Dive Club LIVE is RSVP-gated via the Luma listing. Applications are reviewed by the Double Diamond team, and approved attendees receive the full address, exact date, and afterparty details. Capacity is limited.
For attendees who prefer to listen later, the conversation will be released as an episode of the Dive Club podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts after the taping.
Plan your night
Dive Club LIVE is a small-room, high-context evening for designers and builders working at the intersection of craft and AI. With Ridd hosting and Anthropic, Every, and Ramp all represented in the room, the conversation is unusually well-positioned to surface what's actually working — and what's about to.
