Kalyani Tupkary

I lead and manage the design team behind FigJam at Figma. I designed and brought FigJam to market, built out our early career hiring program, and hosted Config, our annual user conference.

I’m a weird, block-shaped designer. I’m good at taking a lot of disparate information and turning it into something that people just get.

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Put another way, who stands outside for hours, gazing at a starflower instead of a Samsung Galaxy? When you’re stalking a hawkweed at daybreak, time is an afterthought.

Like so many botanical concepts, the flower clock originated with the Swedish ur-taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, in his 1751 treatise “Philosophia Botanica.” Based on field observations, he divided flowers into three categories. The meteorici open and close with the weather. The tropici follow the changing hours of daylight. And the aequinoctales,

a tension of intellect and intuition.