Figma is a design and product development platform—where teams come together to turn ideas into the world’s best digital products and experiences. Today, we’re announcing the pricing of Figma’s initial public offering of 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock … Read more
I first encountered Figma in 2013, when Dylan Field demoed an early prototype to me at O’Reilly’s Foo Camp. I remember the pen tool feeling surprisingly elegant, but I missed the bigger picture: the radical implications of a design tool … Read more
Figma, Inc. (“Figma”) today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Figma has applied to … Read more
I’m noticing a trend throughout my interviews… Designers who can code spend more time sketching and less time in Figma. “I spend way more time sketching stuff out on a notebook than I do in Figma. I can make a … Read more
All other AI features—including Visual Search and tools to rename layers and translate text—are still available in limited beta. At Config 2024, we announced Make Designs, a Figma AI feature that allows you to spin up a first draft of … Read more
1. You can now add status labels to components, instances, and frames in addition to sections on the canvas—making it even easier to share assets for development without having to totally reorganize your file. Add status labels to components, instances, frames, … Read more
Hey folks, welcome to the digest! Today’s issue is about a pain point developers encounter when shipping desktop-class apps to the browser. File editors and database apps Most desktop applications are what I call file editors. By file editor, I … Read more
Believe it or not, Dylan Field tells me over Zoom this week, when he started Figma he was only thinking about one thing: making cool design tools. In was 2012, and Field and co-founder Evan Wallace had the idea of … Read more
Figma’s first conference, Config 2020. On June 25, 2013, Dylan Field, one of my favorite interns from LinkedIn dropped by Wealthfront headquarters in Palo Alto to catch up and get some advice about his new startup, Figma. At the time, … Read more
It’s the day after the news broke out that Adobe has acquired Figma. The amount of memes flooding Twitter and Slack channels has been quite something. And while I cannot speak for everyone, I think a substantial number of designers … Read more