After a year of working at figmadesign (my first full-time job), it's worth introspecting about what I learned in that year digitalfreepen.com/2018/09/29/fig…

The quality and quantity of figmadesign plugins released has so far blown my mind. Especially considering that we gave beta users barely 1 1/2 months to write their plugin. And it's not even their full-time job! Amazing folks.

#smartanimate is I've been working on for the past few months along with the rest of the awesome prototyping team figmadesign! A lot went into this, so I want to talk a little bit about why I find this work satisfying from both a visceral and a cognitive perspective.

Collaborative editing is increasingly important in productivity tools these days, and I'm glad to have had the chance to learn about the techniques used to implement it in Figma, as well as the practicalities of having to support such a feature!

It's not easy to scale a real-time collaborative design tool to millions of users. Our Director of Engineering shares how we're evolving our infrastructure, from redesigning the client-server interaction to placing proxies across the globe: figma.com/blog/under-the…

Intermediation v.s. interposition The former is where the middleman facilitates a sale that might not have happen otherwise. This is good for the economy. The latter takes a cut off a sale that would have happened anyway. Price-gouging of masks/supplies is the latter.

An example of white privilege. You keep saying “it’s horrible that an innocent black man was killed, but destroying property has to stop”. Try saying “It’s horrible that property is being destroyed but killing innocent black men has to stop” Priorities. Make sense?

We're looking for a product designer to help us build the figma editor. It's a great role for "an engineer with strong design skills or a designer who was once an engineer". Come work on a great product with great people. jobs.lever.co/figma/491848e6… Lots of other roles too

I've been reading Matt Levine for years. He gives by FAR the most accurate takes on any finance-related news.

It's fashionable to attribute everything to censorship these days, but that is precisely when we should be careful about making assumptions. Most things have more mundane explanations. Otherwise, real censorship of important matters will get lost in the noise.

This guy gets it. No comment on the acquisition aspect but the technical challenges of bringing multiplayer to a legacy app is why I personally had never been concerned about Adobe outcompeting us directly, which is normally every startup’s fear.