Michael Riddering

@ridd
Designer @ Maven // Creator @ Figma Academy

Figma Wizard

Course Creator

Product Design

Teacher

Startup Enthusiast

Design Systems

Product Strategy

Content Creator

Mentor

Amateur Home Designer

Visual Designer

Founding designer @ Maven.com
Creator @ dive.club
Teacher @ figma.academy

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I'm open to

speaking at events,

speaking on podcasts,

partnering on side projects,

guest lecturing,

and speaking on twitter spaces.

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Resume

Apr 2021 - Present

Founding designer, Maven

Jul 2021 - Present

Creator, Figma Academy

Links

"Design Tactics" — monthly series of practical strategies for product designers

Figma Academy — Advanced product design course

Portfolio

Summer enrollment for Figma Academy is OPEN 🎉 Join 2000+ designers from top teams like Netflix, Pinterest, Shopify, Zillow and learn advanced design tactics directly in Figma. Enroll Today and I'll...

I spent over a month working on the official "Strategies for Components Properties" lesson for Figma Academy ✌️ Here's a free preview — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaQbI0fLyGA Individual enroll...

I recently launched the "Designer Talent Network" 🎉 It's a hand-selected group of some of the most skilled designers on the interwebs (all levels from junior to director). I'll be promoting the net...

Product Design

Created a walkthrough of how to build a scalable form system in Figma 👇 Check it out in the Figma community

Maven

We released the new Maven brand! Over the last few months, I collaborated with Fuzzco to bring the new Maven brand to life 🎉 They crushed it and I'm really happy with where we landed.

Today we released a major feature for our Maven instructors—an all-new landing page builder for creators to promote their courses! Here's a link walking you through the process

Figma Academy

Launched Figma Academy to the public 🎉 Another 1,000 designers joined during the month of January (including teams from Shopify, Amazon, Grubhub, and many more products I've looked up to for years ...

Released the Figma Academy beta program! For one week, I opened up enrollment to designers everywhere and I am overwhelmed with the response. • 500+ designers joined • Representing companies like G...