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Today was a career highlight. It is an absolute privilege to introduce Figma Slides, Figma's newest product, to the world 💥 We launched Figma Slides this morning at Config, Figma's annual conference, after a year’s long effort to reimagine presentations and visual storytelling. Debuting this labor of love to thousands of designers during our opening keynote was a true pinch-me moment. I first pitched what we internally dubbed 'Flides' as an internal hackathon project in Fall 2022. What started as a scrappy prototype is now a tool that channels the power of Figma in a form that helps you tell your stories. Built for both professional designers and their collaborators in product, marketing, research, and beyond, Figma Slides enables anyone to craft a powerful story. Figma Slides is free to use while in beta! Try it out today 🎉 Thank you to the absolute dream team behind this product - it is an honor to work with you ❤️ Keeyen Yeo Alice Ching Karl Jiang Jonathan Kaufman Noah Finer Laura Pang Katie J. Silas Tsui Jessica Wang Delong Fu Duong Vu Joshua Korn Willy Wu Chang Liu Christa Simon Susan Su Michelle Huang Jung Chang Aaron Tesfai Linda Zhang Alex Bettadapur Augustus Griffin Adam Barrus Natasha T. Conor Woods Jerry Wu Catherine Hwu Peter Damrongpiriyapong Cynthia Jia Greta Huang Alexander C. Chris Bevan Chinmay Maheshwari Jeffrey Tousignant Jillian Latimer Ryan Reid Jakub Swiadek Khalil Cader Wendy Lu Ben Steinberg Soundharya Muthukrishnan Xuewei Ouyang Song Xie and many more.

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This past Thursday, I had the great honor of interviewing Dylan Field (CEO and co-founder of Figma) live on stage at Figma Config. This was the first ever live recording of this podcast, and was so much fun. If you watch the interview on YouTube you can see the epic stage they built for us to recreate my podcast studio 👏🔥 In our conversation, we dig into: 🔸 Building your intuition and product taste 🔸 The importance of keeping things simple 🔸 The future of product management 🔸 Stories from Figma's early days 🔸 Dylan’s journey as a leader 🔸 The future of design tools and AI 🔸 Much more Listen now 👇 - YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gfTw9ckp - Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gmbvNig7 - Apple: https://lnkd.in/gJquvTDx Some key takeaways: 1. Figma took 3.5yrs to launch their initial product, and despite their success, Dylan said this was “Way too long. Don’t do that.” Dylan recommends following common advice to ship and get feedback quickly. He adds that there are three things that you get to pick two of: Quality, features, deadline. 2. Intuition should play a significant role in product development, but it should be viewed as a hypothesis generator rather than the final word. Treat them like ideas. Discuss and test them with data. Then, refine them into solid plans that everyone agrees on. This way, you can make better decisions and move ahead confidently. 3. The best product managers deliver outcomes and “bring everyone along with them”. They put everyone in a shared headspace around what they’re doing, and they create an environment where people are happy after hitting milestones. Product management falls down when it’s too focussed on process, at the expense of focus on the problems a team is solving. 4. Aim for a “minimally awesome product” when launching new features or products. This means balancing feature completeness with a high enough quality to meet user expectations.

AI promises to reinvigorate the way we design and build, but how we realize that potential is still an open question. By answering a series of prompts, leaders in this rapidly evolving field take stock of where we stand, what the limits are, and where we’re bound to grow. Welcome to The Prompt.

Thanks for bringing the vibes to SF. Next up, #ConfigAPAC Everything that happened at Config → https://lnkd.in/efwiw3tC Watch all the sessions → https://lnkd.in/e4vGTuxg Huge thanks to you and to our sponsors for building #Config2024 with us: Material Design (Google), Coda, Ditto, dscout, Freepik, Locofy.ai, Rangle.io, Anima, Atlassian, Frontify, GitHub, Great Question, LottieFiles, Maze, Notion, One North, UserTesting

Building new products can be tricky. A glimpse into how Figma Slides (fka Flides) came to life

We’re wrapping up #Config2024. Each year, my appreciation for Figma’s community — both inside and outside of our company — continues to grow. As our Config speakers Karla Cole and Nashilu Mouen Makoua said earlier today, “it starts with people” and Config is such a powerful example of that. This year, so many pieces of Config centered our people: - The inclusion of so many Figmates: we had Figmates from across the world join us IRL at Config to see each other, meet (and re-connect!) with members of our community. As a global and distributed company, these opportunities to physically gather and enjoy each other feels extra special. - The expansion of Config Commons in Yerba Buena: I’m so thrilled to see us use amazing public spaces like Yerba Buena as the backdrop for our community events and was wonderful to see downtown San Francisco come to life with Config. - The epic Confits (+ the Con-nails): our community is the most stylish. Full stop. I especially loved the wildly beautiful and thematic nail art that lit up Moscone. Everyone’s colors, patterns, and of course, confidence — it’s inspired me to be even bolder. Can’t wait to see you all at Config 2025! Thank you so much for being the best part of this experience.

Folks—we saw each other in the file and now we get to see each other at #Config2024. I can't believe this moment is finally here. Over the next two days, we'll bring together 12K+ people to connect, share ideas, and most importantly, have fun. Our community has grown so much, with so many freelancers, agencies, and companies working in Figma on a daily basis. I am so grateful that I get to work on a product that started with designers and touches more and more people every day. https://figma.bot/3L16iML One rollout I’m really excited about: Figma Slides! For all my marketer, strategist, product manager friends, we know you were hacking Figma to create your own version of decks. Figma Slides come with multiplayer ability, live interactions, and of course…speaker notes.I hope you try it and let me know what you think. As you know, we couldn’t do it without you: https://lnkd.in/gb2CsJ5Q

Design is more important than ever. In a world where AI will be able to output fully-functioning interfaces from a simple prompt, craft will differentiate great products from obvious solutions. I hope that the features launching today at #Config2024 will support that end-to-end process and unblock creativity so teams can go from idea to product. Let’s go through some of our launches: - New product: Figma Slides! You’ve been asking for speaker notes so we are giving you that and more. We’re gradually rolling this out so please try it and let us know what you think. - Figma AI: Our approach to bringing AI to the Figma editor is to address real pain points that stand in the way of your craft. Today, you’ll see a lot of AI features that do monotonous tasks for you and help you stay in the flow (Rename Layers and Make Prototype). Some are still MVP, but others are immediately useful. For example, Make Design helps you get to your first idea faster with a first draft and Visual Search finds similar designs already existing in your team. - UI3: We don’t take UI changes lightly. We put a lot of thought into making UI3 in Figma feel familiar while also reducing bloat and making it easier to use. We know that it may take some time to adjust to these changes, so we’re slowly rolling them out to users, starting today. You are welcome to turn this redesign off as we improve UI3 with your feedback. Eventually we will migrate all users to UI3. - Dev Mode: Since the launch, teams have marked over 4 million designs as ready for dev! We’re now introducing Ready for Dev View, Focus View, and new statuses. - Also available today, Code Connect is out of beta with new improvements like surfacing connected code snippets in the component playground, a new tool to streamline setup, and support for React, React Native, iOS, Android (with more to come!). Thank you to everyone who showed up for Config IRL and virtually! Lots more on what we’ve built and what we’re building here: https://lnkd.in/eRavMsr4

Giving you speaker notes isn’t enough we need to give you Figma Slides too → Polls and voting to keep decisions in your deck → Interactive prototypes bring your designs to life → Co-presenting so you never say "next slide" again → Speaker notes (finally) https://lnkd.in/e3t7NVhN #Config2024