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Find your people, find your footing

A FIGMA NEWSLETTER

HOW PRODUCTS TAKE SHAPE—AND SHAPE OUR WORLD

On the long road from idea to reality, finding your footing means finding your people. Progress often hinges on an unexpected email, a tough-love mentor, or a late-night conversation that snaps everything into place. Without community, we’d all be stuck at square one. As our annual Config conference approaches, we’re amplifying the creators, builders, and thinkers shaping our journey—some of whom you’ll find on the agenda. Whether IRL or through a URL, we invite you to make a connection.

As a self-professed Figma fan, product manager Charmaine Lee isn’t afraid to roll up her sleeves and jump in the file. Building Lens Studio at Snap AR, she believes this all-hands-on-deck approach is what makes a creator tool feel like magic. Here are her rules for product building that are anything but by the book.

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Speaking of experiences that feel like magic, how do you define craft and beauty? How do you measure quality at all—nevermind its impact? In this conversation, Katie Dill, Head of Design at Stripe; Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO of Linear; and Yukhi Yamashita, Chief Product Officer at Figma, describe the indescribable.

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When former product designer Nicole Boettcher started crafting quilts, she reached for the tool she knew best: Figma. We visited her Brooklyn studio to see how she designs and plans each piece in the file. “Designers like to joke that our job is moving rectangles, so in some ways my life has not changed very much,” jokes Nicole, who’s joining the virtual program at Config.

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How will AI change our tools and workflows, and what does that mean for us as designers and builders? David Hoang, former Vice President of Marketing and Design at Replit, visited the New York office to talk shop about navigating change. His advice? Stick together. “There’s a feeling of being in a cohort; a balance of accountability and fun,” he says. “That’s going to be what continues the motivation to learn.”

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