Designing with soul - Dennis Müller (Dive Club S5 | E9)

This episode is the ultimate design founder story. Dennis shares all of the ups and downs along his journey to build Amie-a new productivity tool that captures your emails, calendar, and to-dos in a single beautiful product. Some of the highlights:
- Where Dennis draws inspiration
- The traits Dennis looked for in early hires
- What Dennis looks for in design candidates
- The backstory behind Amie’s viral website launch
- How Dennis balances his intuition with product feedback
- How Dennis thinks about innovating vs. capitalizing on familiarity
- Things 3 app - culturedcode.com/things/
- Stefan - / _animify the Amie design engineer
- Devin - www.cognition-labs.com/introd... coder
- Brian Chesky interview - www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/br... on Lenny’s Podcast
- The Amo app - amo.co/
- Dennis’s custom Amie pants - pbs.twimg.com/media/GEoOIsjW0...
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:37 Why Dennis started Amie
3:01 Amie's launch and the next phase of the company
9:30 When to innovate vs. when to capitalize on familiarity
13:56 Designing from vibes vs. designing from research
17:09 Balancing taste/intuition with user feedback
21:30 What traits Dennis looked for in early hires
23:24 Dennis's leadership piholosophy
25:19 How Dennis collaborates with Amie's design engineer
27:40 How Dennis thinks about the right level of investment in craft
32:03 The backstory of the Amie website
36:45 How Dennis evaluates designers
39:51 Where the best designers draw inspiration
44:20 Looking into the future of Amy
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[@formlos]

Awesome interview with great insights. Thank you!

[@zarcosk8]

really enjoyed the interview! Really makes me want to try Amie 💖

[@joindiveclub]

You should!

[@axl8603]

Interesting interview. I tried Amie yet it wasn't sticky to me as it felt a little too clunky to me in terms of ux. I reopened it as I watched this interview and then I got reminded why I also dropped it: The auto updated that results in an empty screen without any info on what is happening is quite a bad design choice. I ran into it several times and always thought my mac crashed.