No Priors Ep. 55 | With Figma CEO Dylan Field

Figma has had a banner year and the formidable team isn’t slowing down-even after regulatory issues blocked the merger with Adobe. Today on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Dylan Field the CEO and founder of Figma, the design collaboration tool that is closing the gap between imagination and reality. They discuss what’s next for an independent Figma, how AI can augment design and speed up the iteration loop, and how Figma is expanding beyond design with products that help the entire product team’s workflow.
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Show Notes:
0:00 Introduction
2:01 No more Adobe acquisition
4:20 What’s next for Figma
7:16 FigJam, digital collaboration, and expanding beyond design
10:50 Figma DevMode
13:06 Incorporating AI at Figma
15:03 How AI will change design
19:19 Creativity augmentation and the iterative loop
22:44 Automating repetitive design tasks
25:35 The future of AI UI
29:44 Investing philosophy
31:28 Leadership evolution

[@arah7727]

Man I remember using Figma back in the day when it was just getting started. They've come so far!

[@jeffhall2231]

Damn Dylan seems like such a chill CEO. ✌👍👍

[@markgaleana1086]

Ngl I zoned out for parts of this but Dylan seems like he knows his stuff. Figma definitely one to watch 👀

[@jeffreymoore8638]

Figma really be coming for the entire design/dev workflow tho

[@robertjames5601]

Figma is so dope, been using it for years! Let's see what they do with AI 🔥

[@offerxs7284]

The FigJam features look mad useful for my remote team's brainstorms. Cursor chat and them emojis/?! We finna be productive as hell 😂

[@ashikurrahman8187]

As a UI/UX designer, I'm so hyped to see what Figma does with AI image gen....Let's see....Thnx and subbed!

[@kyleaustin2728]

Adobe has that locked-in. But a model to generate real code from Figma designs....... we need that.

[@jamesguiraud7582]

I don't even know what half these features are. Ty

[@nineedu948]

Wow!👌👌

[@glenjackson3453]

TLDR; Figma bouta be the cooler, better, AI-powered version of Adobe 💥💥💥

[@asciidiego]

nice.

[@kyleaustin2728]

Regulators are doing too much.