A quick summary of @mwichary's #Config2024 talk.

For those of you who have tried Figma Slides, how’s it feel so far? What’s rad, what’s sad? What might you like to see next? We know there’s plenty left to do, but would love to hear what’s top of mind for y’all 🛝

Zander Whitehurst Flides wouldn’t be real without a world class team who cares about the details. S/O to the best design crew I get to work with khalil Jakub Świadek Mihika Kapoor Willy Wu Christa Simon ry jenny wen Ryhan Nicholas Jitkoff kylie Joel Miller Natasha Tenggoro

One lil big thing: The Flides team *heavily* biases towards "build it and see how it feels." When you spend less time in the hypothetical and more in the interactive, vibes are muchhhh more positive, generative, and motivating.

heyyyy it me do i know what im talking about? nope, but that's kinda the point. give my #config2024 talk a watch and lmk if it helps you feel slightly less anxious—i'll count that as a win. youtube.com/watch?v=SXdoII…

An update on the Figma AI Make Designs feature: After learning about an issue with the underlying design system we made for it, we disabled the feature to fix the issue and review what we could have done better. Here is our retro: figma.com/blog/inside-fi…

Hi! I am... once again, hiring. This time, for a design manager for the User Growth pillar Figma. What's unique about this role? ↓ 1. Scaling across a growing portfolio of products 2. Thoughtful approach to growth 3. Owning Figma Community

demo-ed this at config and now it’s finally out! twas fun working on this alongside the goats julia ry 💖

"I've launched the concept of a product"

I'm biased but Figma Visual search still saves me hours every day and you should try it!

why is deep linking so broken i've literally never wanted to open the app store after tapping on something

the blue vanilla tootsies dont get nearly enough love imo

The casualness with which people are scheduling meetings for next week as if we're not going to be in a fugue state for multiple days just trying to survive is alarming to me.

👋 i’d love to do a speaking opportunity or two in 2025… but i always find out about these *after* they happen. lmk if you’re organizing anything coming up and looking for speakers!

OAuth was a mistake

i'm hiring PMs at Figma! on the lookout for a scrappy 0-1 PM with strong design chops to lead product for all of figjam 👀 if you're interested in building a product that redefines the future of collaboration & taking FigJam to new heights, apply below + tag folks who'd be a

This place made me, and I'm *so* proud to say I got to make a little of it.

Designers, developers, PMs, ops folks, researchers, marketers. Tell me all of your feelings and thoughts regarding the Figma file browser experience. I'm talking navigating between files, searching, organizing your projects — all that jazz 🎷📁👀 Really have at it!

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