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Jun 24
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Loredana Crisan - Figma's big bets for t...

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About this episode

This week we are going behind the scenes of Config 2026 with Loredana Crisan (Figma’s Chief Design Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanacrisan/

We talk about Figma’s vision for AI, why design is having “an identity crisis and a renaissance at the same time,” and what it means to use AI to express what’s already in your head (not outsource creativity to it).

It’s a clarifying conversation about taste, tools, and the future of design 👇

Some highlights:

- Designing systems not screens

- Loredana’s mental model for AI as a tool

- Building your own tools and mini apps in Figma

- What Figma is learning in their own UX research

- What types of designers Figma is hiring right now

- + a lot more

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