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Ill be demoing how to make animations with custom shaders in @figma tomorrow. Those who join can have their work shown in a NYC venue next week!
Ill also be in NYC at the Figma office giving live demos for students and educators. Share with a student who'll want to be there!
Register here:
buildingwithagent.figma.site…
If you didn't get to attend our AfterImage NYC / Figma for Edu events last week, we recorded the gallery spaces live of the work on display and set them to lo-fi beats (so you can study to)! These are student/educator-made animations made with @figma Motion and shaders.
youtube.com/watch?v=gbC42PwJ…
miggi from figgi retweeted
I’m hiring! Come shape the future of the Figma editor: how direct manipulation, AI, and code fit together, built with the craft that makes Figma feel like Figma
→ job-boards.greenhouse.io/fig…
miggi from figgi retweeted
Still love exploring ideas and getting lost in the canvas.
“designing much faster than the others” — this so daft and makes it clear they don’t understand design at all. “Designing fast” (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate “producing ui by piecing together stuff” and “design” then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow.
What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, it’s what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together.
So many of today’s “design” AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. I’d love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isn’t concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.
miggi from figgi retweeted
“designing much faster than the others” — this so daft and makes it clear they don’t understand design at all. “Designing fast” (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate “producing ui by piecing together stuff” and “design” then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow.
What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, it’s what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together.
So many of today’s “design” AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. I’d love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isn’t concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.
Revolut's designers are moving off Figma.
Storonsky spotted one team designing much faster than the others. What they did:
1. Gave an LLM Revolut's design system at the code level
2. Prompted it to build new flows on top of that system
3. Got a live interface they can click through on a laptop or phone, instead of static frames
Result: 3-4x faster. Now he's pushing it to every designer at Revolut.
His job, as he describes it: find what works in one team and spread it across the company.
Full breakdown here:
productmarketfit.tech/p/revo…
miggi from figgi retweeted
it feels like people are conflating design/design explorations with shipping/production.
even though the latter is a likely end goal, the importance of @figma (and IMO any design tool) is/has always been for the former.
it's being able to explore all the possibilities in an unconstrained space, lay them out in a shared place to make decisions, iterate/riff together and eventually communicate the what/why/how of your ideas and solutions
miggi from figgi retweeted
dear algo connect me with cool founders and builders in nyc so i can invite them to my party (open bar 😎)
i’m new to nyc help
(also i’ve been going to the places you guys recommended)
miggi from figgi retweeted
In the @figma Community, Share single designs, both static and motion designs as riffs. Upload or just share a frame, even one with motion. Now in beta, request access from your Community profile when you click post.
Check out mine here: figma.com/@miggi/riffs
miggi from figgi retweeted
You can now post riffs in @figma community profiles. Single frames that can be a static design or contain motion that others can copy and riff off of.
Check out this trim path animation: figma.com/@miggi/riffs/3cc26…
miggi from figgi retweeted
at the @figma event
students workshop exhibition was a blast!
the event was so creative and LOOK AT THE PHOTO NOTEBOOK DECORATION
i love how figma really listens to artists and knows their users
figma is absolutely the best i use figma every day to make my app stitch
Made in @figma by the Figma for Edu community with shaders built with the Figma agent, visionary event coordination by @jchenwan and some motion and workshops by yours truly.
Thank you to everyone who came out to our @figma agent / motion workshops in NYC this week, and submitted your work for display at @artechouse!!! This was really special!
