Dylan Field

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2025 by Dylan Field · across every show →

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Jun 16, 2025
Assertion Supported
Dylan Field appeared on the Today Show before deciding what Figma was
“The actual, like, first or second day of doing the fellowship, starting to work with Evan, I flew out to New York with my mom to be on the Today Show, and I had no idea what we're doing yet, because we hadn't barely started.”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 24:50 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Microsoft threatened to drop Figma unless it started charging for its product
“One of their design leaders came to our office and spent some real time with me, and he I think was sussing out, like, is, are they serious or not? And at the end, he goes, you know, your tool is free. I said, I know, I, we gotta make some improvements, I thin…”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 50:39 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025
Disclosure
Field: Figma's first prototype was browser-based real-time face swapping
“The first thing we looked at was to the face swapping. So basically, you know, I got your face, I got my face, how can I take your face and swap it onto my face? Kind of a cool party trick. But with something called Poisson blending, which Evan found a way to …”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 26:20 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025
Assertion Supported
Facebook acquired entire design agencies to grow its internal team
“You know, Facebook was acquiring entire design agencies to try to make their design team bigger.”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 31:06 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Insight
Field: Internal product development should be collaborative, not based on agency-style grand reveals
“A lot of designers at that point were coming from an agency culture where, you know, you go explore, you come up with a few solutions for the client, you present, you know, three solutions. And then you have a grand reveal of, like, here's the big, amazing thi…”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 44:16 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025
Disclosure
Field: Figma spent a week building a meme generator in 2012
“At some point later on, we literally create a meme creator. That was the darkest week of Figma.”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 27:09 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Field: Figma currently employs approximately 1,600 people
“That's where we are now, yeah.”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:06:15 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025 neutral
What-if
Starting Figma a few years earlier was impossible without WebGL
“I mean, if we had started this a few years earlier, we wouldn't have had WebGL.”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:12:10 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Field: Good design will become an even bigger software differentiator
“I think what becomes differentiator is design. It's craft. It's how it works. It's brand. And as we look at the future, that's what I believe will still be the differentiator for software. It's going to be that craft. And I think that the value of design of go…”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:07:53 Figma: Dylan Field
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