Here's the recording of my
#config2024
talk—a 15-min, mostly-optimistic take on AI tools and their potential impact on the craft of content design.
Give it a watch and let me know what you think!
What does a UX writer *actually* do? 🤔
Whatever it is, you can probably do it in
@figma
—so I created a guide to help writers learn how to use it. From the very basics to pro tips, it’s got a lil something for everyone.
Big
@Figma
news for UX writers today...
1. Spell check! Now Figma will check for typos as you write, in any language your OS supports.
2. Find and replace! Search for and swap out terms and strings across your file.
Learn more in the updated UXW guide:
Figma Slides is finally out! I’ve been waiting for this day for a looonng time. It’s the most challenging and fun project I’ve helped design. I couldn’t be more excited for you and your team to try it out.
For those of you who have tried
@figma
Slides, how’s it feel so far? What’s rad, what’s sad? What might you like to see next?
We know there’s plenty left to do, but would love to hear what’s top of mind for y’all 🛝
The recording for my
#config2023
talk is here!
I cover how content designers can bake a lil more design into their process, then
@AndrewSchmidtFC
dives into what "delightful" design really means.
@figma
You might've noticed that in FigJam now we attribute stamps 🏷
My favourite easter egg is that if it's an ollllld stamp, we add "prehistoric stamp" to the label
#Config2023
schedule just dropped! ()
Content Designers: Tune in on Day 1 @ 2p ET for some spicy takes and tips through the lens of
@figma
.
🫣 Writers should spend more time designing. (Me)
🫢"Delightful" copy might be on its way out. (
@AndrewSchmidtFC
)
Our
#UXWriting
talk from
#Config2022
is on the 'tubes. If you couldn't make it, give it a listen!
Happy to answer any Qs you've got—just follow up here.
One lil big thing: The Flides team *heavily* biases towards "build it and see how it feels."
When you spend less time in the hypothetical and more in the interactive, vibes are muchhhh more positive, generative, and motivating.
heyyyy it me
do i know what im talking about? nope, but that's kinda the point. give my
#config2024
talk a watch and lmk if it helps you feel slightly less anxious—i'll count that as a win.
Final
#config2023
plug:
@AndrewSchmidtFC
and I will be doing some content design myth-busting about "design" and "delight" tomorrow at 11AM PT. Come see us // tune in!
Come join me and the
#uxwriting
team
@figma
! We've got two new roles:
- Design: Our core editor experience—designing, prototyping, and design systems.
- Growth: Our new user experience—discovery, signup, and getting started.
UXers: What are some
#uxwriting
/
#contentdesign
features you’d like to see in
#figma
? Or existing features that could use a little writerly love? If you’ve got any thoughts, let me hear ‘em.
Get it hot off the press 🔥 the Working with UX Writers Figmanual by
@figma
's own
@chrisbaty
,
@AndrewSchmidtFC
, Sylvie, and Ryan!
Had so much fun working with this wonderful group of people 😊
@Volorf
@figma
(Caveat that I work on Flides, not Design, but...)
The rough idea is that we're seeing a ton of variability in collaboration styles. Ex: Small-team designers often build their own stuff, and big-team designers like reviewing / touching up their dev specs before handoff.
@jamesm
@figma
If you switch your color space to sRGB it should fix it. (TL;DR is that it’s specific to monitors that don’t support P3.)
We’re working on communicating that soon, but let me know if that does it for you.
@kyleturman
I struggle most with the vagueness between sync and async. Different comms styles, time zones, etc. lead to convos that span days—keeping up with so many dangling threads is what stresses me out most.
Some of this is organizational tbf, but it’s been similar at my last few gigs.
#Config2023
is happening June 21 & 22.
This year we're taking Config to the next level with two days of talks from 75+ speakers, 50+ sessions, and more. Check out the lineup and get your in-person or virtual tickets at .
See you there!
Reminder that "LinkedIn News" isn't news, and that LinkedIn is a for-profit company with incentives to drive specific narratives.
Ex: Headline suggests some sort of wave of anti-remote sentiment. Actual article is *one dude* who wrote a book and has opinions.
@kyleturman
I’m wondering if part of it is reframing the “threads” tab view to something less timeline-oriented. Pinning threads that I care about to the space, adding them to my sidebar, etc.
I keep thinking about
@browsercompany
’s Arc - more about personal organization than recency.
@mitch__malone
@figma
We're def on the same page 🙏
You can kind of do it now with an embedded prototype, but we're hoping to make that much, much easier and more direct at some point.
@nikishkinsm
@figma
I'll pass the color bit along to the team!
Can you say more about the position of these guys? They should appear right above the toolbelt, but sounds like that might not be happening?
@gavinmcfarland
@figma
It's not something we've talked much about, but I love the idea! I could def see an option that lets you pick orientation.
Adding it to the list 👍
@ryhanhassan
@kyleturman
Ooo big yes.
There’s some warping around necessity, too. “Unread” suggests the thing needs to be viewed at all, which… isn’t always true.
I wonder how Slack could better intuit which channels / people / topics I actually care about on my behalf 🤔
Realllllly can't overstate how much goodness Marcin brings to the world. Check out the latest example of his stellar work—Shift Happens: A book about keyboards.
Buy it y'all 🙏
My book about keyboards, Shift Happens, is now on Kickstarter!
There is all sorts of new information about it, and a video, and what I think are very cool tiers and rewards on top of a very cool book.
Please back and spread the word!
And big thanks to
@_AnaBoyer
and
@chrisbaty
for all of their feedback on our
#Config2023
talks.
Y'all have no idea how much of a team effort these things are. This
@figma
crew is truly the absolute best 🥰
@krispuckett
@figma
Weirddd, you should definitely have access in that case🤔
You definitely don't see "Free" in the top left corner, do you? (Only asking because I occasionally forget to flip back to my paid account.)
@jasinfox
Do you want a truly empty text layer, so that auto-layout shrinks to hug "no" content? Or is this a fixed width text layer?
There's no great way to do the former just yet (soon hopefully). For the latter you could throw some placeholder text in there and set the text fill to 0%
@shngyi
@AndrewSchmidtFC
Most are sentence case or functional “names”. Those tend to be 60/40ish if the name shows up in the product, and 40/60ish if it will only be used for external comms. (2/2)
@MatousRoskovec
@Volorf
@figma
I can only speak for the Flides side of things, but the general principle of "click this thing to see more technical bits" is kind of what unifies the two.
(Both of our UI3 designers are on much-needed PTO, but they can speak to the specifics of the Dev Mode toggle 🙂)
The best design teams put the same imagination they use in their day-to-day into hiring.
They can envision how to help someone learn and grow vs. expecting they check every single box on the job req.
@interplato
@figma
Great ideas! Quick thoughts:
- Offline mode is 100% something we want across Figma, but timeline is TBD.
- Not "responsive" per se, but you can view decks in the Figma mobile app now (scaled down 1:1 basically.)
- You can navigate with arrows in both the editor and preso view.
@jackphorton
@femkesvs
Totally, we're hearing that across the board. Even devs want to be able to add technical annotations, but find it difficult // messy. TBD what the solution is, but thanks for sharing this 🙂
@shngyi
@AndrewSchmidtFC
This is a roughhhh rule of thumb, but… For anything special that gets a Title Case Name, it’s close to 50/50 UXW/marketing. But that’s pretty rare for us—we tend to reserve Name Names for a small handful of features. (1/2)
@ridd_design
@mihikapoor
Even being on the team, I can't believe how far we took this thing before unveiling it.
Suuuper excited to hear what y'all think!
@ZaxBit
@figma
I hear ya, Zax. This isn't the first time hearing this one, so we'll revisit how that works.
The TL;DR is that internal publishing is currently limited to Org/Ent plans, but I totally get the need around wanting to save a local template. Adding it to the list!
@superrrsara
@figma
You can copy/paste 16:9 frames over from Figma Design now, and it should work pretty well.
But let me know if you have another idea! I'm sure there are use cases we haven't accounted for yet :)