Dylan Field

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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma) · 2 Oct 2025 podcast

you will also be less familiar with the code.

And so then you might want a different abstraction where you're able to work on things and uh basically plan out what your app should be, what your software should be, and Figma can provide that.

Yeah, I I think that what you're saying is super important as a point.

Um, the blank canvas problem is real.

We're always trying to figure out for figment design, how do you make it less intimidating for someone to come in?

How do you make this more approachable?

And there's always a tension between the power users of Figma Design who would like every single power feature that you can imagine.

You know, why can't you make a feature for like everything in the CSS spec?

And you know, of course we can over time.

On the other side of it is okay, you've got someone coming in for the first time, technical, non-technical, whatever.

Are they intimidated?

Do they feel invited to go create something?

And the first, regardless of our UI, the first thing that can block people is that blank canvas.

So getting people from the place of um

you know, I have an intention to actually putting something on that canvas is so important.

And I think once you start getting people in that loop, then it's less intimidating.

You have more that you want to explore.

One of the things I'm excited about that we just actually shipped today is a way to copy designs from make into Figma Design.

And if you think about Figma Make as a just easier entry point for Figma Design, you know, it's like uh the flight simulator to the airplane cockpit or something, then perhaps you're able to make it so that uh that's an early entry point you go through.

And then you actually can do more than just we

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