Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studio

Remember when the Carl Rivera club/deep-dives/carl-rivera) told us about his vision to create the new Shopify Product Design Studio? Well in this episode I got to sit down with [Marvin 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

com/Jaytel - Brian Collins - legendary designer who worked on the Collins website redesign com/ - Carl Rivera - Shopify’s Chief Design Officer (referenced previous Dive Club episode) club/deep-dives/carl-rivera - Design Fluid Interfaces video from Apple’s Human Interface team (2019) com/videos/play/wwdc2019/808/) - Claude Code - AI coding tool by Anthropic ai/login - Artifact - internal Shopify tool for showcasing design work com/posts/jaytel_this-was-meant-to-stay-inside-shopify-but-activity-[redacted card]-oqiU/ Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿 🌐 club 🐦 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

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