Dylan Field comes to Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast to talk about keeping internal morale up after the Adobe acquisition fell through, his approach to maintaining pace and a sense of urgency 13 years in, how to systematically develop taste, how Figma decides which product lines to add, why he obsesses over ​“time to value”, and how AI is making design more valuable. Don’t miss Lenny’s biggest takeaways from this conversation.

Dylan Field shows the new Figma app in ChatGPT in action with the tech tree generated out to the year 2100.

Dylan also joined the Latent Space to discuss letting designers build with Figma Make, how Figma can be the context repository for aesthetics in the age of vibe coding, and why design is your only differentiator now.

Dylan joins the TBPN show to chat about evaluating new AI models, the trajectory of Figma Make, and why human judgment and taste still matter even as AI accelerates execution. They also discuss leadership, his views on open-source models and emerging hardware, and MCPs.

Dylan Field shows a couple of projects he built in Figma Make with pre-release Sonnet 4.5. He notes that the new model is very good at planning and was able to precisely transform a Figma design into a functional code with a single prompt.

Dylan Field gives his first interview since Figma’s big IPO, joining ACCESS Podcast to talk all things design, AI, and what’s next for Figma.

Steven Levy at WIRED: ​“He (Dylan Field) explains that in the early 2000s, design was about making things pretty. By the 2010s, people were emulating Steve Jobs’ philosophy that design was about function. Now, Field says, design is not only both those things, but our means of communication—who you are, what your brand stands for, how you engage with the public. Our world is built on software, Field says, and the more software is created, the more design becomes the core differentiator.”

TBPN show hosts asked Dylan Field about organizational design in the age of AI and the importance of design.

Read Dylan Field’s founder letter about why design is more important than ever, and what’s next for the company.

Dylan Field is interviewed by Guy Raz, a host of the How I Built This podcast, ​“where innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists take us through the often challenging journeys they took to build their now iconic companies.” See a few highlights from this conversation in the blog post 7 moments that shaped Figma, as told by Dylan Field.

(Read without a paywall.) The Verge interviews Dylan Field about ​“how he sees AI fitting into Figma after a rough start to integrating the technology last year, the new areas he’s targeting to grow the platform, and more.”

If you have time for only one thing, watch this Config 2025 opening keynote led by Dylan Field.

Y Combinator President & CEO Garry Tan sits down with Dylan Field to discuss ​“the evolving world of design in the age of AI, the challenging early days of the company, and how his team forever changed the way designers and engineers collaborate.”

Patrick O’Shaughnessy from the Invest Like The Best podcast interviews Dylan Field, covering ​“the hardest part of building in private, his principles for avoiding common design pitfalls, and why human creativity is still as relevant as ever despite the growing capabilities of AI models.”

Steven Levy from WIRED discusses with Dylan Field how Figma is reinventing design tools to meet the needs of tomorrow’s creators and the evolving role of designers in an AI-driven world. I was so happy that Steven asked Dylan about his hoodie and let the fascinating nerdery unfold.

Dylan Field talks about startups and European regulation on stage at Slush 2024.

“Notion, Arc and Figma are teaming up to help you have your best semester yet. Join us for a special Back-to-School webinar featuring an exclusive panel with all 3 co-founder/CEOs (Dylan Field, Figma; Ivan Zhao, Notion; Josh Miller, The Browser Company) reflecting on their student days, followed by demos from fellow students showing how they set up these tools to organize their busy lives (and tame the chaos).”

Happy birthday to my favorite design tool!

The next day, Dylan Field posted a thread stating that ​“the accusations around data training in this tweet are false” and reiterating that Make Designs ​“uses off-the-shelf LLMs, combined with design systems we commissioned to be used by these models.”

The Make Designs feature was disabled until the team completes a full QA pass on the underlying design system.

This session is a must-see if you have time for only one. CEO Dylan Field’s opening keynote walks through how Figma rethinks product development from the ground up and introduces new methods to help you make great work.