In 2022, Marco Cornacchia was coming off of a failed startup and started working on his new portfolio. Little did he know this project would land him a role as the founding designer at Diagram, lay the foundation for design Twitter’s most viral website, and spawn a talk at Webflow’s conference 🤯

In this episode, Marco shares how he (accidentally) created a new trend of animated bento grids. And we also get a behind the scenes of what it was like being the founding designer of Diagram and ultimately getting acquired by Figma. If you’re interested in designing at a startup then you’ll love this episode ✌️

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[00:00:00] Welcome to Deep Dives with Marco Cornacchio

[00:01:14] Process of releasing the new Diagram website

[00:04:00] Working toward brand transformation

[00:05:32] Nailing down the overarching creative direction

[00:08:40] Testing specific design details

[00:11:23] Deciding on what to create within Figma

[00:13:05] Leading with your work

[00:17:12] Working at Diagram

[00:21:34] What the daily design role at Diagram looked like

[00:25:31] Dominant breakthorugh use cases in AI for designers

[00:27:00] the evolution of Marco's roles from a startup founding designer

[00:29:41] Collaboration in design when there are multiple designers on the team

[00:36:40] Growing and refining the design skillset

[00:43:55] Ways to grow as a designer today