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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Figma comes up
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:22 Bryant Chou It can not only just connect to your code base, but it connects to Figma, connects to all of your analytics tools, CRM, spreadsheets.
How Stripe Built Their New Website · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:05 Aaron Epstein You know, it's, it seems like it's not just, um, pushing pixels and frames in Figma.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:23 Aaron Levie So over the years, you know, companies like Slack, Figma, certainly others have sort of said, you know, we're going to prioritize great design, even if, I mean, Figma had to because of its demographic, but we're going to prioritize great… 2 times in the scene
The Sales Playbook For Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:44 Tom Blomfield Perhaps you've got some Figma mockups or really just an idea, barely any code written at all.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:27 unnamed speaker How many people, um, have used Figma before?
- ▶ 0:47 unnamed speaker So we'll hear the Figma story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 unnamed speaker And now take us back to, uh, maybe a 19 year old Dylan, uh, getting started with the, the kernel of the idea that eventually became Figma, but it wasn't a straight line getting there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Dylan Field Uh, if we had stopped six months in and that was our point where we made a call, Figma would not be here today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 unnamed speaker You know, do all the twists and turns, and the thing that eventually became what Figma is today.
- ▶ 6:11 unnamed speaker Once you kind of came up with, uh, the idea for Figma, how did you get your first users? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:23 Dylan Field That was something that I, now looking back, have learned, and when a team at Figma comes to me with a epic roadmap that they think is perfection, the first question I always ask is, how do we slim that down?
- ▶ 11:10 Dylan Field Here's my 12 page doc on all the things that I want you to do for Figma.
- ▶ 14:32 Dylan Field At Figma, we see it up close every day.
- ▶ 16:49 Dylan Field If you look historically at the products we've launched for Figma, the pattern is we notice behavior happening in Figma design. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:49 Dylan Field If you look historically at the products we've launched for Figma, the pattern is we notice behavior happening in Figma design. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Dylan Field We take it out of figma design and make it its own product, and therefore figma design is able to be what figma design wants to be, a product design tool, and you know, whether it's fig jam or whiteboarding brainstorming tool, the first… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:32 Dylan Field And then Make, uh, we're so excited about Make. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 unnamed speaker And, and I'm also curious, um, maybe how that process has changed, like how your own development process has changed within Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:18 unnamed speaker Yeah, so a lot of people in this audience here, and I know you've done this internally, you know, at Figma and building your own models.
- ▶ 27:36 unnamed speaker I'm curious, what are some of the most interesting ways you guys are using AI internally at Figma?
- ▶ 30:34 unnamed speaker I'm curious, um, what was the most fun period in the history of building Figma for you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 unnamed speaker What do you think Figma should, uh, move toward being more open and developer friendly to catch up with the trend of many software engineers become product engineers in the future and more and more solo entrepreneurs using CursoAI to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:30 Dylan Field Uh, with make, we're trying to enable that, uh, in a way that's visual first rather than code first.
- ▶ 33:29 Charlie Fearborn So it's cool to hear about the game's roots of Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 unnamed speaker I mean, using Figma for slides for classes before you guys dropped slides made it easier.
- ▶ 36:04 unnamed speaker I mean, using Figma for slides for classes before you guys dropped slides made it easier.
- ▶ 37:55 unnamed speaker Um, so I guess my question is just how is Figma navigating like ethical challenges of AI and design and like incorporating AI into the products that you are, you have available?
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:27 Tom Blomfield Many product managers and designers are actually going straight to implementation of a new idea in code, rather than designing mockups in something like Figma, just because it's so quick.
What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:30 Raphael Schaad For some people, this may kind of be, you know, uh, maybe taking a photo of the sketch and putting it in Figma and starting to kind of like, you know, wireframing it out or directly kind of more pixel perfect designs.
Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:39 Garry Tan We have Dylan Field, the co-founder and CEO of Figma, which millions of people in the world use for collaborative design.
- ▶ 1:04 Dylan Field Ever since we started Figma, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:14 Dylan Field And, you know, for Figma, one of our values as a company is play. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:46 Dylan Field I might have some selection bias, because like, you know, obviously people are excited to talk to me, uh, as an angel or my capacity at Figma.
- ▶ 13:21 Garry Tan Let's take a step back, and I mean, I love your story of starting Figma. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:06 Dylan Field And then, uh, thankfully we had made that call and, uh, it still took quite a while, you know, a year and a half, two years before we got to the point where we had people using it outside of Figma.
- ▶ 19:00 Dylan Field I think in reality, you know, if you looked at the seed pitch for Figma in June, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 Dylan Field It's like, how do you go from idea or brainstorming, diagramming, and fig jam to, you know, famous slides where you align to going to design where you're trying things and prototyping to gain development, shipping to production. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Dylan Field There was clearly table stakes, and when I look back at the first people that used Figma for real design work, they were minimalist, because they liked how few features we had. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:10 Dylan Field Um, and then, um, one of our early users that tried out Figma, um, I remember he tweeted at the time, like, kind of making fun of us, but in a nice way, and said, oh, we're gonna do a design party, and, like, invited everybody to a Figma… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:23 Dylan Field I brought a bottle of wine with me because the text editing experience and flow in Figma was so slow, and just writing things out took a long time, so I knew we'd have to, like, drink some wine to get to the user study.
- ▶ 29:13 Dylan Field Before we even launched the closed beta, we were dogfooding Figma internally, and we knew from just using it ourselves every day to design Figma, very meta, what we needed to do just to make a better design tools for us. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:01 Garry Tan Can I ask you about, like, I guess design culture inside Figma and how you developed it? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:48 Dylan Field Which we still have more work to do on approachability. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Dylan Field Figma Slides is a great example.
- ▶ 35:20 Garry Tan So, Figma, you know, in this moment, like, what are you most excited about, and where does it go from here? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:58 Garry Tan Obviously, Figma came up in a moment when LLMs and CodeGen were not happening yet.
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:15 Katie Dill And that, I'm sure, you know, maybe in the Figma file was like, great, we're gonna do this and it's gonna be fine.
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
Critiquing Startup Websites With Webflow CEO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:38 Vlad Magdalin Product designers saying, Hey, I have this new update in Figma.