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Really annoyed at Figma's price gouging here. There is no reason other than greed: https://lnkd.in/gfdrEiWH Oh, and I emailed them about it and this line from their reply was particularly poignant: "Additionally the minimum for enterprise is a $5k invoice minimum. 6 enterprise seats or made up with other products." To put that in context... our monthly Adobe bill (for 8 CC, 7 PS, 6 Acrobat licenses) is ~NZ$2k... Amazing how quickly enshittification sets in... #Figma #Design #SoftwareLicensing

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Figma variables are awesome. Renaming them when you change your design token taxonomy is miserable. I wrote a plugin to make it much easier (new location, minor updates) https://lnkd.in/g439ztAq

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“Ultimately it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to hit a deadline for Config.” Figma CEO, Dylan Field took to X to address accusations of Figma’s new AI-powered feature, Make Design, relying on data training. This was in response to a tweet showing a weather app design created with Figma’s AI that looks remarkably similar to Apple’s weather app. While Field denies the data training accusations, he admitted that the QA team was rushed and stated that “the feature will be disabled when our US based team wakes up in a few hours, and we will re-enable it when we have completed a full QA pass on the underlying design system.” QA professionals: What do you think of this response? Do you feel it puts unfair blame on the QA team?

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DVA is not associated with this job posting Senior Product Designer https://lnkd.in/ghdTwqy4 About the Role As a Senior Product Designer at Circle, your role extends beyond crafting beautiful interfaces; you are a strategic partner influencing our community engagement SaaS platform's future. You'll have a high degree of autonomy and will be entrusted with significant responsibilities, shaping user experiences and design outcomes. Your work will contribute to Circle's growing impact in a sector that is not only culturally significant, but also a major economic driver, generating billions globally. As Circle strives to be the go-to platform for creators looking to scale their communities and monetize their content, your role will be instrumental in turning that vision into a reality. #innovation #management #digitalmarketing #technology #creativity #futurism #startups #marketing #socialmedia #socialnetworking #motivation #personaldevelopment #jobinterviews #sustainability #personalbranding #education #productivity #travel #sales #socialentrepreneurship #fundraising #law #strategy #culture #fashion #business #networking #hiring #health #inspiration

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I'm joining Femke for a 60-minute live event about building a culture of design in a startup as a team of one. Early-stage startups often have engineering-heavy teams with room for only a single designer or none at all. In an environment like this, designers need help to have their voices heard. It's challenging to build a design culture in companies like this and it presents the designers with a unique set of challenges. But it doesn't have to be like this. Designers can build a culture of design within a company by finding design champions in non-designers. These champions can be engineers, product managers, or other team members. They can help move design forward by their active participation in design. Join us live on Jun 5th ↓ https://lnkd.in/e6kExFqY P. S. 137 designers have already signed up.

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Do you want consistency between designers and front-end developers? Use of design tokens. When everyone uses the same terms, it simplifies things for both teams. Here's Google's introduction to design tokens and how you can implement them: https://lnkd.in/gpWMwqVz

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If you care about... 🟡 Delivering a fast #UX to your users 🟢 Knowing the minute your site speed starts to suffer (including Core Web Vitals metrics) 🔵 Fixing #webperf issues FAST ...then you need performance budgets. Not sure what a performance budget is? Check out this complete guide: https://lnkd.in/gXt5iUin #pagespeed #sitespeed #corewebvitals #webperformance

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The Jobs to Be Done framework is crucial for product designers, especially as the line between product managers and designers continues to blur. This article can revolutionize how we approach problem discovery and opportunity identification, offering deeper insights during the design phase. It's a must-read for anyone looking to elevate their design process and deliver exceptional results.

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It’s very easy to get sucked in to the looming concern of AI decimating our discipline. I’ve written a few words on why I believe humans are close to irreplaceable (for now) in the UX space and why it’s more important now than ever to embrace AI as a tool in our belt as opposed to a threat. #UX #ProductDesign #Design #Tech #Business https://lnkd.in/erCr4tu9

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Figma's new "make prototype" might be a useful tool to check if your design is "so simple an AI could use it." If the AI can't figure out how to prototype up your design, perhaps the information scent needs to be made stronger. I'd like to see how/if it can handle popovers, menus, dialogs, and other things that aren't a basic noodle from screen-to-screen.

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Lots of hubbub around Figma's new AI features this morning. Our Technology Director Jarrett Webb brings the hyperbole into perspective. Tl;dr: Yes, these are positive new features for the Figma product, which will empower designers and improve the design process, but it is a great exaggeration to think of it as the end for product designers. These are features that help designers with the tedious and mundane chores of designing and using Figma: -creating filler content that makes the designs more realistic -organizing the entities of Figma -creating mood boards or inspiration boards Yes, it does make the act of "designing" more accessible to those less skilled in design and in using tools like Figma, but it would be naive to stop there. It could be effective for non-designers to express their ideas and concepts more easily. It does not eliminate all the other and most important things designers deal with: -composition of systems -composition of workflows -managing scale -understanding the problem space in both abstract and pedantic levels -articulating problem spaces at multiple levels for various audiences -making good decisions -organizing information -effectively presenting information/data The last three are extremely difficult for non-designers. Businesses are often challenged making product and design decisions that optimally satisfy both user/market needs and business objectives. This is the hardest part of product strategy and design. Product discovery (applies to established products as much as new products) is the process of defining and articulating the product space and is something businesses constantly struggle with. It is also an imperative prerequisite to designing and delivering successful products to market. Design is a strategic process and is far more than setting pixels and making things look pretty.

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Figma's new UI is superb, though it feels like a late update. But better late than never, right? If you use Apple's design tool "Create with Play," you've likely seen these "new" floating navigation taskbars. This update is beneficial as it provides more screen space and a wider canvas to work with. #DesignUpdates #FigmaUI #CreativeTools #BetterLateThanNever #UIEnhancements #DesignEfficiency #UXDesign #ProductDesign #TechUpdates

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It's heartening to see how many media sites in SpeedCurve's Page Speed Benchmarks have sub-2.5s LCP times! For some of the sites with poorer LCP, perceived #webperf / #ux isn't the issue. They're fast to start render. The main culprit is that the LCP element is just wrong. The takeaway: don't just look at the numbers for your performance metrics. Visually validate them to make sure they're measuring the right things! https://lnkd.in/gG5zEK4u #pagespeed #sitespeed #corewebvitals #webperformance

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▶︎ You might know about Amazon's "Working Backwards" philosophy. It is a product development method that starts by imagining the product is ready to ship and writing a press release for it. 👉 Here's what Brain Chesky says about "Designing Backwards" with a real world example. #design #startup

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"Delight" often gets a bad rap when mistaken only as animations, sound effects, and confetti. Here's how I think about delight and its sibling, utility: Utility is the VALUE a user derives from interacting with your product. Value warrants the product’s existence and, much like profitability makes a business sustainable, utility makes a product sustainable. ↳ Utility creates loyalty. Delight is the SATISFACTION a user derives from interacting with your product. Whereas utility is “I need to use this product”, delight is “I want to use this product”, and in the best cases “I want others to use this product too.” Maximizing delight translates to higher app ratings, increased NPS, stronger brand affinity, and increased virality. ↳ Delight creates advocacy. Design, Product, Engineering must work closely to put utility first. But each of these — Design in particular — must also advocate for delight to transform product value from “need to” to “want to.” Prioritizing delight is another form of slowing down to speed up. Small investments in delight now can translate to exponential gains in 'free' advocacy later. #delight #utility #design

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🚀💼 Figma's $12.5B Tender Offer: Investors Are Going Wild! 💰🔥 Investor excitement is reaching new heights as design platform Figma announces a staggering $12.5 billion tender offer, reflecting the company's skyrocketing valuation and immense potential in the digital design space. 🌟💻 This significant milestone underscores Figma's position as a leader in collaborative design tools, with investors eager to capitalize on its rapid growth and innovative product offerings. 💡💼 As professionals in the tech and investment communities, we're witnessing firsthand the incredible power of disruptive technologies like Figma, reshaping industries and driving unprecedented value creation. 👩‍💼📈 Let's stay tuned as Figma continues to redefine the future of design, inspiring creativity and collaboration on a global scale! 🎨🌐 #Figma #Design #TechInvesting #Innovation #DigitalTransformation

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I saw image zoom feature in some VuePress-driven docs and thought it would be not so hard to make it from scratch in our 11ty driven website. So it is not easy because: - I didn't know about https://lnkd.in/e-rffBJR - <img/> could be inside <picture> - <img/> might have width attribute/style limiting it max size - Shouldn't enlarge small images to 100% of the viewport, but bigger than naturalWidth, naturalHeight - I wanted animation... - what if no naturalWidth? And while working on this I discovered iOS Safari crash on pinch to zoom a page...

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