Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studio

Remember when the Carl Rivera (https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/carl...) told us about his vision to create the new Shopify Product Design Studio? Well in this episode I got to sit down with [Marvin Schwaibold](https://x.com/MSchwaibold) from Molly studio who Shopify recently acquired to bring that vision to life. We go deep into creativity, Marvin's journey with Molly, how he's building his ideas with AI, and a lot more. Some highlights: How to become a well of creative ideas How AI unlocks how designers work at Shopify What design differentiation looks like at Shopify What Marvin has learned diving into Claude Code How designers at Shopify create and leverage internal tools Behind-the-scenes of redesigning the famous Collins website + a lot more Jaytel - Marvin’s design partner from Molly studio https://x.com/Jaytel Brian Collins - legendary designer who worked on the Collins website redesign https://wearecollins.com/ Carl Rivera - Shopify’s Chief Design Officer (referenced previous Dive Club episode) https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/carl... Design Fluid Interfaces video from Apple’s Human Interface team (2019) [https://developer.apple.com/br/videos...](https://developer.apple.com/videos/pl...) Claude Code - AI coding tool by Anthropic https://claude.ai/login Artifact - internal Shopify tool for showcasing design work   / jaytel_this-was-meant-to-stay-inside-shopi...   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 💪 Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:06 Marvin's design journey 7:31 Starting Molly Studio 9:27 Collaborating with Collins 14:41 How the Product Design Studio works at Shopify 17:54 How the Studio and product teams collaborate 22:03 The importance of motion and animation 23:48 Launching the new Shopify.design 29:32 The impact of working alongside Toby and Carl at Shopify 32:40 How AI unlocks designers at Shopify 37:39 Marvin's journey learning coding tools 46:24 Becoming a well of ideas 51:33 Design differentiation at Shopify