If you didn’t have a chance to watch the full keynote yet, this is a short 6‑minute long video with main highlights.
Figma announced that the next Config conference will happen on September 17th, 2020, be completely virtual, and free to attend. Registration opens on August 20th, but right now, they are looking for speakers.
Chieri Wada describes a life-changing experience of attending Figma conference two months ago, then looks at how the same design community came up with creative ways to stay in touch while social distancing. (Seriously, can you believe the conference was only 2.5 months ago?!)
In this short video, two Principal Analysts from Forrester Research discuss their takeaways and impressions from the conference.
Elsma Ramirez from SoFi shares her notes from the conference and highlights talks and speakers that inspired her the most. Her favorites: “Welcome to a new decade of design” by Dylan Field, “The city guide to open source” by Devon Zuegel from GitHub, and “Design System Showcase”.
One young designer, three amazing conferences. Great writeup by Michelle Chiu from MongoDB.
Playlist with recordings of all 23 talks.
Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, reflects on the conference, Figma community, open design, and some key themes that emerged from a collective discussion.
Fun to see all the smart remixes made by the community!
Bonnie Kate Wolf shares an illustration from her workshop, where you can create different scenes by swapping components.
Jules Forrest posted a summary of her Config talk as a Twitter thread.
In 2017, when I was first researching this problem, I learned there were two distinct approaches to naming design systems: utilitarian design systems names and fun design systems names. pic.twitter.com/O5VuNP0dea
— Jules Forrest (@julesforrest) February 7, 2020
A thoughtful post-Config essay on the role of Figma multiplayer, designing in an open space, and community.
Recording of all keynotes from Config 2020 — Dylan Field “Welcome to a new decade of design”, Craig Mod “Adding scaffolding to collaboration for deep work”, Devon Zuegel “The city guide to open source”, and May-li Khoe in conversation with Scott Hansen (Tycho/ISO50).