Designer Advocate Clara is interviewed by Lovers Magazine about her path into design, getting inspiration, community work, and workstation.

Clara Ujiie led Workday’s migration to Figma in 2019. Now as a Designer Advocate at Figma, she helps other teams through similar transitions, sharing ways to work better together. Based on these experiences, she is offering a blueprint for teams adopting Figma.

I have a dedicated tag #Switching to Figma for this topic, but out of 60 shared stories only one was added in the last 2 years — a pretty good indicator of adoption.

If you ever wonder what Designer Advocates do at Figma, Clara Ujiie just gave a mini-presentation to Figma interns answering this question. While community engagement is the most visible part of advocates’ jobs, they also spend a lot of time on customer education and learning how customers and the community use Figma.

Clara Ujiie came up with a simple workflow for visually testing components. (The same tutorial is available as a Twitter thread, if that’s your jam.)

Clara Ujiie with a nifty FigJam trick.

Clara Ujiie shows how to archive your work using pages and version history.