Dylan Field shares how he and Evan Wallace came up with the idea for Figma. In the first part, he shares his original pitch in the Thiel Fellowship application from 2011.

This is just a brilliant follow-up! Pay attention to tweets’ dates.

A keynote presentation by Yuhki Yamashita, VP of Product at Figma, on nine best practices for building trust, providing feedback, and creating unique value in the PM-designer relationship.

Figma’s Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto joined All Turtles podcast to talk about building Figma, seamless collaboration, and life in general.

Alex from Doist shared his feelings about trying Figma, and Rafa from Netlify pointed to some specific problems in its interface. My favorite part — Koen Bok from Framer showed up in replies to remind how much Sketch team raised the bar for the design tools.

Impressive demo by Thomas Wright.

And another set of beautiful artworks! What a talented team they have.

Beautiful paintings by a software engineer at Figma.

Twice yearly Figma holds a Maker Week, where the team gets the chance to work on whatever project they want. This epic musical takes the cake this time!

Noah Levin, Design Director at Figma, dives deep into their day-to-day operations — meeting cadences, rituals, and anything else that helps the design team stay connected and efficient.

Forbes: ​“But Figma also plans to use the money to consider acquisitions and ​“acquihires,” in which a company will purchase a startup not for its intellectual property, but for its talent, as part of Figma’s next phase of expansion.”

“A spokesperson told TechCrunch that this deal was ​“opportunistic,” and that the company was in a strong cash position pre-financing. The new funding expands Figma’s runway during these uncertain times, with coronavirus halting a lot of enterprise purchasing and ultimately slowing growth of some rising enterprise players. “ Also interesting: ​“Field also added that he has not met other investors in this round in person, and the vast majority of the deal was done over Zoom.”

Andreessen Horowitz: ​“Figma puts all the pieces together, and into more than the sum of those parts. What used to take four or five discrete tools can now be done end-to-end in Figma, the single source of ​“truth” for product design and design systems. […] Their community has taken off with a product-led virality that I haven’t seen since GitHub — extending beyond product designers and into product managers, marketers, and engineers.”

Dylan Field: ​“Today, I’m excited to share that Figma has raised a $50M Series D round of funding, led by Peter Levine and Marc Andreessen at a16z.”

Great thread from Design Manager at Figma on how one of its most unique features came to life, from the initial pitch to design challenges and decisions.

“Figma is in talks to raise a new funding round from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz at a valuation of $2 billion, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter tell Forbes. The round, which is still being finalized, is expected to raise at least $50 million, three sources say.”

After starting working remotely during the pandemic, Figma’s top priority has been finding ways to stay connected while far apart. This article shows how they are making a remote team still feel real.

Index Ventures asked experienced leaders from their portfolio companies, including Figma and Slack, to share their expertise and advice on working from home.

Yuhki Yamashita, VP of Product at Figma, gives an inside look at how they designed the fastest way to keep an entire company up-to-date on the roadmap using a Coda doc.

Thread by Director of Product at Figma on how their team operates.