Figma

“We did in record time from the start of the project to shipping a beta. I mean, it was like six to eight months and I thought it was really fast.”

“Original vision was to eliminate the gap between imagination and reality. And back in August, 2012, 20 13 timeframe when I tried pitching people that they were pretty confused and thought it was very vague. We had a lot of Challenges recruiting people. And so…”

“That's a really important part of that Asian process is this feeling of safety of play. And if you can make people feel more at home even through silly things sometimes like stickers or emoji reactions or waving your cursor around and high-fiving people. Curso…”

“So I think that we get these new glimpses at interaction patterns that are really cool. And the natural inclination is to extrapolate and say they're going to be useful for everything. And I think that they have like sort of their role and it doesn't mean that…”

“When do you want like sort of an LM versus diffusion model solution for something and design is maybe you can define it as like art applied to problem solving. there's many different definitions of design. but I love that one. It's one that I've been thinkin…”

“And I'll be honest, like right now in these few months, we are sprinting fucking hard, not as much of a moment of play. It will return. Like we have so much to create, so much to innovate on.”

“What we can do to better serve developers, which are almost a third of our users.”

“Figma was never meant to just be a design tool. And the more that we can expand out as a platform the more we can think about that entire value chain of how software is created everything from that first idea, but also through to alignment, to, Not just design…”

“When they, their first pitch for Figma, Was not like a design tool. They didn't have a design tool. They had a demo, like a WebGL demo of a three D ball dropping. And the pitch was what browsers have gotten powerful enough to do meaningful three D graphics…”

“And I think that the interfaces will get more sophisticated. But also even if they don't, I suspect that it's just like any new media type when it's introduced, it's not like the old media types go away, right? Just because you have TikTok doesn't mean that yo…”