Founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian shared his notes from a missed investment opportunity in Figma back in 2016. Hard to believe that it was still in private beta and they didn’t even charge for it only 6 years ago!

Forbes speaks with Danny Rimer from Index Ventures about investing in Figma, working with Dylan Field, the fund’s artisan approach, and how his passion for art and creators has helped him connect with entrepreneurs.

Dylan Field shares his thoughts on ​“Neopets, early MySpace collabs with Eric Lu, the importance of asking ​‘why now’ when building new products, the future of web development and the future”.

In Issue 89, I shared slides for Yuhki Yamashita’s talk ​“Confessions of modern design” on how design is changing, and how we need to change with it. This article summarizes his advice on navigating our new always-in-progress world and Figma’s approach to developing collaboration features designed with that in mind.

“Component properties launched at Config earlier this year, but was over a year in the making. Essentially React properties for Figma components, ​“props” removes the guesswork out of your design system and better aligns design components with code. Join the tech leads of the project for a behind the scenes look into how the feature came together, the power it unlocks for your design system, and a look into some of the exciting updates we’ve made post launch.”

Lenny Rachitsky kicked off a new series on building products by interviewing Figma’s CPO Yuhki Yamashita. Learn about their planning process, how they use OKRs, their design review meetings process, org structure, lessons learned, and more in this Twitter thread, or in an excerpt from his subscriber-only newsletter.

Figma’s accessibility team shares what they’ve learned from the community and their vision for what’s ahead.

Love when folks share some of the Maker Week projects! Here is a beautiful finished mural.

A beautiful deep dive into the making of a new background music feature in FigJam.

“The Justice Department is preparing to open an in-depth investigation of Adobe’s $20 billion takeover of design collaboration company Figma, according to four people with knowledge of the matter and a document viewed by POLITICO.”

Seems like Figma’s design team had a fantastic time together in their San Francisco hub.

I’m indifferent to the Halloween celebration, but the fact that the Figma team took the time to add so many fun touches across both apps makes me happy.

In this CNBC interview, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen shares his thoughts on the company’s plans to acquire Figma and innovation in a hybrid work environment.

Noah Levin talks about Figma’s unique processes in hiring and culture on the Design To Be podcast.

An unofficial audio series (definitely not a podcast!) from the Figma designer advocates team.

One of the most interesting takes on the acquisition I’ve read so far. Wenting Zhang left Adobe over a year ago, but before that she spent 1.5 years working on Adobe XD and 5 years on Adobe Fonts (ex-Typekit). While as an ADBE investor she has a clear bias about the price, her observation about the org chart oddity is really interesting.

“On the Figma security team, our goal is to help Figmates ship new products and features as securely as possible — all without slowing them down. We wanted to share our operating model, which prioritizes transparency, decentralized and reusable solutions, and earning trust over mandating processes.”

“Knowing how people use Figma is a critical process for making design accessible to everyone, and it requires us to carefully collect and analyze different types of user data. It’s a big responsibility to be entrusted with this data, so we want to be sure our customers know what we use it for and why.”

Figma asked the design company COLLINS to help craft a brand story and campaign that would debunk the Myth of the Lone Genius and get everyone from the intern to the C‑suite collaborating on their platform. The two companies worked closely together on this fantastic story.

Francisco Tolmasky asks an important question — after Figma did the unimagined and released design tool in the browser, where are all other cool web apps built with this technology? A few examples I can think of are Framer and Spline.