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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!

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Config 2024: Content design and AI: a beginning, not the end. (Ryan...

Config 2024: Content design and AI: a beginning, not the end. (Ryan Reid, UX Writer, Figma)AI won’t take your content design job… unless you let it. In this ...

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2 years

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.

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The UX writer’s guide to Figma

Tips from our UX writing team for getting started with Figma

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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:

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This is/was a career project. I'm SO proud with where this landed, and truly can't wait for y'all to try it out.

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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.

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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 🛝

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(hey) #config2024

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slack makes work 200% more stressful than it needs to be

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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

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Figma: The Collaborative Interface Design Tool

Figma is the leading collaborative design tool for building meaningful products. Seamlessly design, prototype, develop, and collect feedback in a single platform.

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“so what exactly does a ux writer do?” me: 🦖

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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

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#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 )

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Eek! #Config2024 is almost here! Here's one final plug for my talk on Wednesday morning—a little spiel about the potential impact of AI tools on the craft of #contentdesign . (Right after @figma folk @ryhanhassan @_joelmllr and @okaysee talk about something BIG.) See you there!

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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.

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Working with UX Writers in Figma - Andrew Schmidt, Chris Baty, Ryan...

In this talk, Figma’s UX writing team shares their favorite tips for designers on using Figma to deepen the creative bond with writers, and build more intuit...

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A quick summary of @mwichary 's #Config2024 talk.

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Oh, there’s a @figma Community file too! Use it with the blog post, or on its own—it’s handy either way.

UX writer's guide to Figma | Figma

Designed by a UX writer for UX writers, this guide will help you learn how to use Figma in your day-to-day. Pair this file with our article to get the most out of it. Where the article has video...

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@jenny_wen i literally write sins and tragedies

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Thinking about a career pivot? @figma 's @HerbertLui interviewed me and a few others about our own transitions, along with some tips for doing it.

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The Art of the Professional Pivot | Figma Blog

Six creatives working in the product design world share their journey to making big leaps and side shuffles into their next career chapter.

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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.

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🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 It feels great to be building things with such positive vibes. It is absolutely doable, don’t let others tell you that toxicity is the only way!

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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.

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The "testimonials" for @clickup 's new whiteboarding tool. Seems legit...

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@femkesvs @figma this is one @zoink wants asap, so stay tuned 🫣

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that dude woke up today and thought "we need more gatekeeping in design don't we"

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I knew it #earthquake

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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!

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i'm just supposed to keep working as if the biggest cable news network in the country isn't actively promoting the murder of my community

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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.

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@ me you coward

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Somehow there aren't any good resources for text field keyboard shortcuts, so I made one for the @figma Community. #uxwriting #uxdesign #figma

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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.

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So, so pleased with how this turned out. If y'all have any UXW + Figma questions, fire away! #Config2022

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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 😊

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@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.

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i need a few more tech dudes with overwhelmingly-unearned confidence in my For You feed pls

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there is no level of voice UX writing that will make me want to answer a random survey shouted by my google home after asking what time it is

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@disco_lu @keeyeny really indulged me on this one 😅

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@figma Shift.... Oh!

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@TylerNickerson @figma Yet another @jackiechuichui gem

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i desperately want to see the naming doc for this

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Back to our regularly scheduled programming of not being Adobe.

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i’m sure this user-friendly experience will replace twitter…

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For fuck's sake @clickup —if you're gonna keep using fake testimonials, put some effort into it.

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@appy_013 @jakub_swiadek @figma @mihikapoor @jsngr @zoink We hear you, for sure. TBD on pages, but we definitely want to explore how to make libraries more accessible—particularly in design mode. Really appreciate the feedback 🙏🏽

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@lorenbaxter @figma @felt Felt's been a big inspo for us across the Figma design team 🙏

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@YorbiBarriento @Mevrael @figma Yupppp. And once you've added one, you can add more from the canvas as well.

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@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.

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@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.

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Time to tune in— #Config2022 is starting!

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the apple commercial debacle is a nice lil reminder that endless layers of creative approval and alignment isn't all that effective

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@LinzhiQ @igobycait @figma The @Asana task completion email on this one made my week 🥹

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@subcide @jake_albaugh @figma @Grammarly

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#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!

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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.

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@subcide @figma All kudos to @kly_cl 🙂

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@okaysee The urge to jump into every Slack thread / convo when I have plenty of other shit to be doing.

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@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.

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@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.

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@chrisd008 @HonzaTmn @figma Hi hi! I was the UX writer on props, and you’re spot on👌🏽

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@samhenrigold I noticed the same and flagged with our team. Stay tuned 🤔

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@amanik @figma Love both of those! Adding them to our list. And definitely circle back once you’ve dug in—we’re all ears 🙂

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@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?

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wow no oscar noms for chicken run dawn of the nugget

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@figma triggers a toast reading “you’re worthy of love”

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@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 👍

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@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 🤔

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does anyone else's creative energy temporarily evaporate when the seasons change

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@navaneethvenu @figma It’s definitely on the list! And fairly high, I’m pretty sure.

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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 🙏

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Shift Happens: A book about keyboards

The history of keyboards – from early typewriters to modern mechanical marvels – told in two beautiful volumes.

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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!

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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 🥰

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@itspatmorgan @miggi @figma Desperately want this on some Figma swag 🥺

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@mitch__malone @figma 100%! We're gonna keep pushing on that experience as well. Lmk if you have any ideas around this theme

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@notdetails @figma Side benefit: You can zip around the screen while humming for some doppler effect funtimes.

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@felt good stuff as always, @felt crew

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@Nyrkes @figma This one's definitely on the list! It might take a bit to get to that same level, but we're hoping to find smart ways to make it work 🙂

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@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.)

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me: opens zoom $2000 macbook pro:

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@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%

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@sullivan_s @tomwaterton So glad this resonated with y'all 😍

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@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)

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@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 🙂)

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@jsngr @vincentmvdm @ridd_design (it's mayonnaise)

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@interplato @femkesvs @figma @zoink Ahhh, I gotchu—I kinda love that idea. I'll noodle a bit... Appreciate the help 🙏

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@igobycait @figma Welcome to the Figgggggg

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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.

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@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.

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@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 🙂

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@gavinmcfarland @jasinfox Ohhhh this is awesome We should have a simpler way of doing this soon-ish. I’ll follow up when that happens 🙂

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@DesignerPhen @mihikapoor @MatthewWSiu @keeyeny @natashatenggoro Idk if that inspired @natashatenggoro (the brains behind thus), but know @_joelmllr and I are both trying to reference music-making UX a bit more where we can.

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@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)

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@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!

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@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!

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@joeyabanks @figma If you find any of the copy here weird / confusing, lemme know 👀

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@suss_virtual @nikitisza This is definitely our biggest writing gap. Typos for days 😭

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starts new project, finishes 25% of it, gets bored, starts new project, fini

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@igobycait okay how in the eff were these back to back

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@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 :)

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@femkesvs @jackphorton Will I regret it? Stay tuned...

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@RobertJBye @petermcreaper @davidhoang @zoink my 1-bed 5th floor walkup would be perfect tbh

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don’t listen to the pumpkin haters. you can enjoy your pumpkin while also acknowledging the deeply unresolved pumpkin-based trauma of others.

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@chrisd008 h/t to @nikolasklein

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@simiakinbode @figma Totally agreed—we're hoping to tackle this one in the near future 🙏

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@nicvargus @AndrewSchmidtFC Yep yep! Every talk will be recorded and released on same day 👍

Figma Config 2024 | June 26-27 - Moscone Center SF

Config 2024: Figma’s conference for people who build products

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