Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field

Vicente jokes that they have an internal “wrapper-death countdown” which keeps track of the number of days the company survived since the last time it was “pronounced dead.” Here are his thoughts on how startups can be successful in a market where the capabilities of frontier models continues to expand: • Do one thing really well. Vicente takes the

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In the early days of Figma, we talked with practically every designer we knew. In search of more feedback, we turned to Twitter which I realized we could use to determine the most influential designers. After getting the data, I further filtered the list to people that were personally inspirational to me. Then I cold emailed / found introductions t... See more

If you look at every technological shift or platform shift so far, it’s resulted in more things to design. You got the printing press, and then you have to figure out what you put on a page. More recently, mobile. You would think, “Okay. Less pixels, less designers.” But no, that’s when we saw the biggest explosion of designers.

—Dylan Field, Figma