It’s that time of the year again — time for annual rankings and ratings. Forbes published their annual ranking of the world’s top private cloud companies. Figma is #29 on the list.

You may remember Craig Mod from his keynote on Config 2020. In this podcast, he talks about finances, starting investing at an early age, saving to buy future freedom, and how this approach led him to invest in Figma during the early days.

“Figma has partnered with leading global digital and design agencies. These agencies have a proven track record of helping their clients run at scale by setting up and migrating their design systems, implementing more efficient processes, and providing an overall elevated level of service.”

As it started looking like many students wouldn’t be heading back to campus this year, Figma had to revisit its focus on local, campus-specific programs. Instead, they decided to make progress on classroom resources, student stories, Virtual Campus Slack Community, and hackathons this summer.

A part of the conversation between Dylan Field and Andrew Reed from Sequoia.

Figma has hired Ken Norton as director of product. Ken spent more than fourteen years at Google, where he led product initiatives for Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mobile Maps, and GV. After using Figma for nine months, he said he approached the company about joining.

A great in-depth profile of Dylan Field at Business Insider.

Josh is an engineer on the design system team. Here, he shares advice for new grads as they think about taking the next step: choosing the right company, finding a role that fits their interests, and making the transition to the working world.

UserOnboard goes through an onboarding experience of Figma.

Dylan Field: ​”Today, I’m excited to announce that Figma is opening a hub office in London, which will serve as our HQ for the EMEA region.”

Rasmus joined Figma in 2016 as a Lead Designer and one of the early employees. He just left the company, and in this post looks back at what he worked on over the years.

Engineer Aashima Garg shares an inside look at Figma’s enterprise team and their work, spotlighting a recent project to improve the Organization admin experience.

Dylan Field wrote about moving Figma towards a hybrid model, where both in-person office hubs and remote work is possible. I found this part from their internal survey especially interesting: “…almost half of employees currently based in San Francisco said they would consider moving to another city within commute distance if we offered multiple WFH days per week. Nearly two thirds of employees said they would consider moving to a non-hub location before the end of 2022 if all roles had the option to be remote.”

Kiko Lam, an engineer on Figma’s collaboration team, shares her approach to the performance optimization project — investigating the underlying cause of slow performance, challenges with the existing implementation of comments, and the results of her work.

Abigail Africa, a Student Fellow at Figma, on deciding whether or not to complete her degree this year in the middle of the pandemic. ​“Dylan, who left college to start Figma, offered to bring in other perspectives alongside his own. We invited a small handful of people we knew would be thoughtful on the topic to chat with Dylan over Zoom: Laura Deming, John Maeda, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Weiner, Karlie Kloss, and May-Li Khoe.”

Jenning Chen, an intern on Figma’s design systems team, built the recent updates to the style picker over the course of her summer internship. In this article, she reflects on her time at Figma: expectations, onboarding remotely, and managing a feature update from inception to launch.

Marcin Wichary, Design Manager at Figma, gives an inside look into how selection colors and OpenType support were built.

A good conversation on his career, the PM’s role, what other projects he finds interesting, and more.

Interview with Jason Pearson, Figma’s Head of Product Support.

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