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Show Notes
Live from Config, this episode with Jordan Singer follows his journey from the Diagram acquisition all the way to Figma’s 2024 AI release. We go deep into:
- What didn’t ship at Config and why
- How they navigated the early idea maze
- How the role of designer will be impacted by AI
- What it will be like designing dynamic interfaces
- What makes Jordan’s new role at Figma so unique
- Why renaming layers was such a big internal debate
- Why the sparkle icon will become the new floppy disk
- The surprising pivot that led to Jordan’s favorite AI feature
- How Jordan prototypes by hacking on top of the Figma code base
- The old Diagram website
- Figma’s new AI landing page
- Figma’s blog post introducing AI
- Figma’s 2024 Config Keynote