Vincent van der Meulen

Design Engineer, Figma · 1 appearance on the record.

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Vincent van der Meulen is a design engineer at Figma working on AI-powered workflows and features. Previously, he built AI design tools at Diagram before its acquisition by Figma, and held roles at Uber and Meta.

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Figma Designer: AI Will Collapse Design and Engineering Roles Within 5 Years

“Yeah, five years from now, nobody of course knows, but I do think some level of role collapse is going to happen, which is super exciting. So designers will be able to create, software engineers will be able to create designs and all of these roles are going t…”

Vincent van der Meulen Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 45:26 Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp

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Figma Engineers Reskill in AI Organically Through Personal Side Projects

“What we'll see is that a lot of these people reskill automatically because they're so passionate about AI and are just constantly building side projects in their own time. We don't even need to do the reskilling, reskilling.”

Vincent van der Meulen Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 38:36 Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp

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Figma Designer: AI Features Only Ship After Passing Perfect Output Evals

“So for every feature that we built, we set up these little tests. Where we have the expected perfect outputs and we compare, we then compare that expected perfect outputs to the AI outputs. And we do that for every change. And only when the expected outputs is…”

Vincent van der Meulen Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 16:40 Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp

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Figma Evaluates AI Search by Rendering Results Directly Onto the Canvas

“So for instance, for our search feature, we would have the AI search model, just spit out all the search results on the Figma infinite canvas. And then we could go in with a Figma plugin to actually rate those search results as good or bad. And we would do tha…”

Vincent van der Meulen Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 30:04 Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp

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Figma Has Approximately 200 AI Plugins in Its Ecosystem

“We have something like 200 AI Figma plugins right now.”

Vincent van der Meulen Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 34:49 Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp	Jan 10, 2025	8m

Vincent van der Meulen

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