Podcasts

Hosts of the Design Details podcast, Brian Lovin and Marshall Bock, cover all of the exciting new releases from Config 2022 and do a deep dive into the new version of Auto Layout.

Dylan Field on TechCrunch’s Found podcast.

Bruno Figueiredo talks to Miguel Cardona about his journey to the world of design, work at Figma, and design education.

Hosts of the Design Details podcast share tips for crafting component variants to avoid the dreaded variant-explosion problem.

Hosts of the Layout podcast joined by a friend of the show Ryan Hassan, designer at Figma, to tell us all about how they’ve redesigned Comments.

The latest episode of the Distributed podcast pairs Dylan, Figma’s CEO and Co-founder, and guest host Connie Yang, Head of Payments Design at Stripe, with past design leadership posts at Coinbase and Facebook.

“From community-driven design process improvements to the world of plugins and the future of design tools, we talk to Rogie King, Designer Advocate at Figma, about the power of community.”

“Why is everyone talking about creators? Jack Conte, co-founder of Patreon, and Dylan Field, co-founder of Figma, discuss the creator phenomenon with Danny Rimer at the Index Creator Summit.”

“In this episode of Uniquely Led, Dylan Field, CEO & co-founder of Figma, shares his journey of going from intern to CEO at the age of 20, discovering the difference between leadership and management, and the importance of being a low-ego leader. He discusses Figma’s culture of growth, which focuses on bringing in amazing people and ensuring they achieve their full potential.”

“Kyle built Figma’s sales team from scratch. When he joined, company culture was established and PLG was already driving hypergrowth. Learn how Kyle integrated sales into Figma’s culture, and got the whole company cheering for the next gong.”

In this episode of the podcast Go to Market Grit, Amanda talks about her very successful run at Zendesk, her current work as Chief Customer Officer at Figma, and the importance of keeping the voice of the customer in focus during decision-making.

Gleb Sabirzyanov is a guest at Sustain Open Source Design podcast. You may know Gleb from his popular Figma plugins (Master and Blend) and countless community contributions. In this episode, he talks about the plugins he built, a project he started working on called Pink Turtles, and where he sees the future of Figma evolving in the next couple of years.

Designer Advocate Miguel Angel Cardona is a guest at the Latinxs Who Design podcast. He talks about his background and path to design. Before joining Figma, Miguel was a tenure track professor in the New Media Design program at The Rochester Institute of Technology teaching user interface and product design, and before that, the first designer at imgix.

“How do product teams hire UX Designers? Anthony DiSpezio, Designer Advocate at Figma, explains the most significant factor in cross-functional team hiring and how this may very well be why you are not hired. In the second part of the episode, Anthony describes the role of Designer Advocate at Figma: a mix of hands-on design and advocacy. To be hired for this role, you need to be a Figma expert with a knack for communication!”

“This week we are joined by Jenny Wen and Kee Yen Yeo from Figma to talk about the behind-the-scenes of designing FigJam.”

In this week’s episode of Design Details, Brian Lovin and Marshall Bock share their reactions to everything announced at Figma’s Config 2021.

“In episode 88 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny speaks to Dev Akhawe, Head of Security at Figma, the first state-of-the-art interface design tool that runs entirely in your browser. Dev pulls back the curtain and gives us a look at what security at Figma looks like.”

In this episode of The Ones Who Succeed podcast, Campbell Baron talks to Dylan Field about his experience dropping out of University and becoming a Theil Fellow, raising 4 million dollars at 19 to start Figma, and lessons learned as the CEO of a design Unicorn.

Chris Baty is the Principal UX Writer at Figma and was previously the head of UX writing at Dropbox. He’s also the founder of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). In this podcast, he talks about joining Figma, the work he’s doing there to make Figma an exceptional tool for UX writers and content designers, and what it’s like working as a team of one.

One more podcast episode with Dylan, this time in ​“Founder’s Field Guide”. This one covers the principles that Figma is built upon, the growing importance of design as the world moves from consumption to creation, and what it takes to recruit effectively.