Dylan Field

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Sourcery · Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

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There are people that have mentored me and have no idea because it's from before Figma times and maybe we didn't interact as much during the building of Figma, but there are voices in my head.

So folks from O'Reilly, LinkedIn, Microsoft Research.

I think that during Figma,

The folks that I've got on the board have been incredible and I'm very thankful for them, but also our employees.

You know, our first manager hire, Sho, director of engineering at the time, he really taught me management.

I didn't know anything.

I was an intern before Figma.

And just in general, I mean, we've had interns that have taught me stuff.

We've had folks from anywhere in the org that I think you can learn from and also the community and just the folks that have surrounded us with great feedback.

I mean, I'm so grateful early on, but today as well,

for the designers have sat down with me and given me that gift of feedback.

We are very lucky as a design company to have designers as users and customers because they are trained to give good feedback.

So the feedback we get is so much better than like your average feedback that a company gets.

And I never take that for granted.

And I always count it as a blessing.

But yeah, I look for mentorship everywhere and I'm very, very grateful for it.

Alan Kay is awesome.

And there's many other HCI and sort of design thinkers that I also think are incredible looking back.

But also I think that we need to get back to the sort of work that was done, you know, back by, you know, sort of

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