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UI3's been out for almost a week—thank you to everyone that's written in feedback and suggestions.
After our talk last week, I wanted to share a few more snippets from some of the FigJam files we made along the way.
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So many exciting announcements from
#config2023
today—Dev mode! Variables! Prototyping! Auto layout!
There's one more update that I hope surprises and delights like the short before a Pixar feature...
An update to
@figma
's font picker! (Yes, finally! 🥳)
Let's take a tour. 👀
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An expert sees edges that to a novice look like empty space not worth perceiving.
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🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰🇳🇴🇮🇹🇪🇸🌎
We've added 8 more layouts (UK, SE, FI, DK, NO, IT, ES, LATAM) so more folks can work faster in
@Figma
.
It's been fun to dig into ⌨️ quirks with
@mwichary
@dorothchen
@SulaYang1
+ Rachel Miller!
Sign up here if you'd like to beta test:
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it's my last day at
@JustworksHR
😢
6 years is a really long time esp in startup land.
Have a lot to process and many folks to thank but in particular appreciative of
@millabearwolf
for taking a chance on me,
@m_e_i_s_e_l
for pulling me in, and
@ioates
for building Justworks
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“The user is not like me”—this mantra from
@cmuhcii
reminds me to always build from our users’ needs.
Here’s a conversation with amazing colleagues
@dorothchen
, Rachel and David about what we’ve learned from the accessibility community and what’s ahead!
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😍 amazing work
@ahelmbolt
@damiencorrell
@SulaYang1
and everyone else on this gorgeous page.
And a huge shout out to
@LinzhiQ
@mollymerp
@mwichary
@imryanreid
Amanda Yeh, Delong Fu (who I don't think are on twitter) for building this out in
@figma
!
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Q for the designers out there—what parts of figma feel untamed? Hard to control? Unhinged?
Where do you wish you had more precision?
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parasite/squid game getting to rage against the machine level irony of who is enjoying it w/o taking in the core message
Me: I wonder how many South Korean movies/shows that are parables for how capitalism kills us that we have to watch before we all finally just collectively burn it down or maybe die from trying to live
My mgr: ok… I was moreso curious how your work week was going
Me: exactly
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No more wondering "what does that font look like?"
See previews of all the fonts available to you in Figma including your team's shared fonts,
@googlefonts
, and yes, even fonts on your machine!
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Great players are developed not just drafted.
Great employees are developed not just hired.
Rather than focusing on flaws, focus on strengths and building confidence to contribute. Sometimes the flaws transform into competence or more.
paraphrasing
@coachthorpe
@TrueHoop
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It’s the end of the year and we’re about to enter a new decade, so let’s play a game to help along some reflection.
1 like = 1 lesson learned in 2019
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Pls give ❤️ and 🌺 to these folks (and many more) who actually put these little big updates together:
@mollymerp
@HaukeGentzkow
@thejoannachen
@jackiechuichui
@lbudorick
@shirlmeow
and Akshay, Amanda, Ashley, Oscar (who aren't on twitter)
Little Big Updates are here… and they're BIG.
Introducing 30+ new quality-of-life updates for Figma and FigJam to help improve your workflow.
Hint: You’re definitely going to want to check out the full thread 😉
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been reading Caro’s Master of the Senate and noticing a theme swirling.
Systems and institutions are deathly afraid of coordinated collective action against them.
See what’s happening with $gme and Wall Street, government and police response, and suppressing unions.
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ok it's been kind of a wild day at
@figma
, if you missed the livestream—stay tuned for a recording ~soon~
but in the meantime check out some of this quality ✨content✨
some behind the scenes for ⌘F, canvas previews, the hanging punctuation UI + more!
Behind every Little Big Update are some quick pivots and aha moments--our team is the first to admit it takes time to get even the little things right.
Here's how we took on the challenge of some small but mighty quality-of-life updates.
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baby’s first waymo ride and omg.
this is the most positive SF tech moment I’ve had since seeing the original iPhone at Moscone
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where can I yell about mental health
workshops aren’t the answer
ask folks to do less
pay them more
maybe do both
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3 hours going deep on this thread went by surprisingly fast.
Strongly recommend super following
@shreyas
for the director’s cut details behind 🧵 like this.
Appreciate the candor and getting a peek at the experiences that sharpened these frameworks.
Advanced time management principles:
(for senior product managers & leaders)
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Also… 👀 this amazing and fun playground file for variable fonts from
@claraujiie
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The best and most succinct advice I have for past/present/future me is summed up in these 3 words:
Go to bed.
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👋 hi there. Like many folks I’ve taken a long break from this place and for the most part it’s been great. That said, there’s a few things floating around my head I wanted to test out and tbh this is one of the better places to share so here we go.
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this.
the details folks choose to include are an editorial decision of what’s important.
in this case it’s centering white ego and identity and how something failed the oppressor rather than centering the victims and their community.
think about what’s important pls
Honestly I don't give a single microscopic FUCK abt this racist murderer being religious or his family. Instead of talking abt him, WHO WERE HIS VICTIMS? Who were those Asian women? What were their dreams, who are their families, what was lost bc of their murders?
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Many complex skills are easier to approach when you view them as combos.
Combos are comprised of smaller skills that are chained together.
To get better at a skill—deconstruct it, improve at fundamentals, and work on your chaining skills.
Gonna unpack this in a 🧵
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Read
@davidchang
‘s memoir recently, and one thing that I’ve heard in his work but was solidified via the book is that there is no joy at the top of the mountain.
The joy he found was in the pursuit of the summit and in his next act, helping others reach the apex.
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seed stage me pushing a
startups stroller in snow
🤝
do you have any traction?
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Big day for us here—we know there's more work to do, but excited for our FigJam accessibility work to be available to everyone!
Would love to keep chatting about what's working and how we can improve. Drop a note in the forum or send a reply/DM here!
NEW: screen reader accessibility in FigJam.
Screen reader users can now interact with FigJam boards by:
→ Reading out content, like stickies and shapes
→ Moving focus around the canvas and menus
→ Creating and editing content
This is our first step in making FigJam more
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wow it happened.
Doom running in Figma wen?
I think I've pushed
@figma
's new Variables and Advanced prototyping to its limit...
I present a fully working version of Flappy Bird!! 🔥
Featuring:
- Scoring + highscores
- Pseudo-randomised pipe placement
- Physics based movement
- Uses 46 variables
#Config2023
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Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t have to live with the downside of their choices
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When using big fancy words, it’s often to make ourselves feel smart by showing off what we know.
When we explain things in simple words, it makes other people feel smart by helping them understand in an accessible way.
I want to make other folks feel smart.
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In the middle of dinner my son starts screaming “I need donuts!!!”
Which was hilarious for the obvious reasons but also bc my wife and I have no idea where he picked that up.
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Fun aside: while testing the new picker I noticed this lil detail in the counter of Inter's lowercase a that reminded me of my kiddo's hair when we tried giving him a cut. 💇♂️
Not really picker related but wanted to see if you were still following along.
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If you have bad news and sharing it for the first time in a yearly review, you’re too late.
If you have good news and sharing it for the first time in a yearly review, you’re too late.
The review should be a time to reflect, process, look forward. Not collecting/sharing data.
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v proud my son requested to listen to zeppelin over blippi by saying “ I want to listen to the ahhhhhhhhh song”
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Hey twitter friends-would love to talk if:
- you recently joined a new team that onboarded you in a thoughtful way
- you’ve thought about how to introduce new folks to your team (and vice versa) and have some opinions
- you’re curious about how to do ☝️ and have questions
Ty! 🙏
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Really powerful construct I learned recently from
@brianmwang
Because of __, I feel __
and the story in my head is...
"the story in my head" does the heavy lifting to:
- disarm this as an attack, it's an interpretation
- state it is constructed & not necessarily true
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As someone getting older in the tech industry, having people skills and a broader perspective on life is like being the old guy with a smooth jump shot. A little surprising and almost always a value add.
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a lot of my problems reduce to wanting to be someone else rather than being content with who I am
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who’s building general assembly but for learning how to be a great people manager
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14/ Got to spend the latter half of the year working at
@orbitalnyc
.
A few lessons from learned from 155:
- A great community is priceless
- Rituals are valuable in facilitating time for reflection
- it’s worthwhile to make space for randomness and collisions
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This is a game changer and has been a ton of fun to watch from the sidelines.
Kudos to
@nikolasklein
@engbrianlee
Akshay and many others for landing this one!
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what did they do to grimace from the McDonald’s crew
Nike Air Zoom Generation "Purple Suede" Drops Summer 2023 😈
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Config is around the corner and feeling like a stylist making sure garments are draping cleanly, ironing out wrinkles, making sure the fit is coming together.
But at the same time waiting for a handful of last pieces to come off the production line.
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one thing I appreciate about 2020 is normalizing that it’s ok to answer “how are you doing” with “not ok”
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fun to observe
@shreyas
’ antithesis principle
be mindful that people judge you by what you wear
try not to prejudge folks based on their clothes
it is true that our clothing influences how others perceive us. but while you may choose to dress a certain way in order to shape people's perceptions of you, you should never judge a person's character, morality, or worth based on their clothing.
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so much of the discourse on here around making software stems from insecurity.
tell your collaborators you value them and when they’re doing a great job.
give your loved ones a hug.
you are enough.
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@patrick_oshag
@WaffleHouse
the contingency menus that they fall back on to continue running in the middle of disasters that lead to the Waffle House index
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In the middle of reading Doing Justice by
@PreetBharara
and the insight that kindness, respect, and honoring the humanity of criminals is much more effective to induce cooperation than coercive force is amazing. It must be even more true for our communities and our workplaces.
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Has been real interesting to shift from working on a product that was almost 100% us based users to a product used all over the world—have learned a lot about the varying norms in notations, keyboard, fonts, and more…
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me to any non-essential stakeholders at work
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when facilitating meetings these days it's been helpful to think of my role like being a talk show host
- set the energy
- facilitate conversation with curiosity
- steer the focal points of discussion
- try and get folks to laugh to relax and be more comfortable
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The big point about Spotify holds, but don’t blame the designers. I bet if anything they’re the ones doing the opposite and fighting for a decent user experience but it’s a tall order to displace metrics and 💰
my
@NewYorker
column this week is on how Spotify got too enshittified to use for listening to music, and the cognitive dissonance of trying to do something with an app that its designers don't want you to do anymore
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any advice for folks joining a new co remotely?
am feeling the need for “orientation” heavy rn-and it’s a lot harder to get your bearings when most everything is shining on a rectangle in front of you
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I wish I could teach sales folks about how to run user research
And I wish I could teach product/UX folks how to lead with value when speaking
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muffins and donuts are just words to normalize eating cake for breakfast.
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One of my favorite tricks is to repeat back what I just heard and ask “Did I hear you correctly?”
The great part is even if you missed something, the other person will quickly point out your gaps in understanding.
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I underestimate the long tail of kindness folks have access to via the internet. The ability to ask questions safely and get considered answers is something I wish we’d quadruple down on.
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in this country we’re always trying to redeem the oppressor instead of protecting the oppressed
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creativity is underrated in operating roles. Being able to pull solutions that aren’t optimizing what’s in front of you is a creative activity
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I wasn’t nervous about tomorrow but now… 💩
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You can also add career growth frameworks here-it’s a roadmap for your own development.
The gaming analog is the WoW talent tree.
I feel like something like workflowy could work as you drill down until you get to a leaf node, but what’s missing is a holistic view.
Product/feature roadmaps are more like dependency graphs than sequential lists – the Civ technology tree comes to mind. This distinction is more pronounced when teams are organized according to microservices. What's the best tool for reasoning about this? Non-"Roam" answers only.
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that went quick!
I’ll be working on the editor experience and would love to chat w friends old and new about your experience using figma.
Shoot me a DM or drop me a note at koh@
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I wish I had acknowledged the energy sinks in my life sooner and accept I wouldn’t change them.
Wrestling with these made me an energy vampire for others far too many times.
Find ways to be at least neutral, but ideally net positive for folks around you.
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LeBron going deep in his back catalog tonight.
KD signed a lifetime deal w Nike to join Bron and MJ. I wonder how KDs and Bron’s shoes do in the future.
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wondering about the optics of interviewing candidates while wearing a hoodie that makes me look like Cookie Monster.
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Do any folks out there use the chrome web inspector to quickly “mock” up variations of UI like copy changes and simple css tweaks?
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The next ___ (jordan, lebron, goog, facebook, etc) ends up being a flawed search with an imposed ceiling. We look for someone that matches the archetype of the past rather than looking for who's uniquely positioned to take advantage of the conditions that exist today.
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