Dylan Field

But I think certainly by 2100, we should be able to get there.

But I think certainly by 2100, we should be able to get there.

The beauty of digital right now is that it feels like anything is possible. And maybe that's the outlandish thing, period, is that we're getting to a place where I've kind of always felt like the approach should be, you can build anything that's not violating the laws of physics, given enough time. And now like the time portion of that even is decreasing on the digital side.

The beauty of digital right now is that it feels like anything is possible. And maybe that's the outlandish thing, period, is that we're getting to a place where I've kind of always felt like the approach should be, you can build anything that's not violating the laws of physics, given enough time. And now like the time portion of that even is decreasing on the digital side.

And certainly digital is not usually violating the laws of physics. So that's pretty exciting.

And certainly digital is not usually violating the laws of physics. So that's pretty exciting.

Whatever you're speaking to folks, I think you have to think about the audience. I would probably try to make this presentation for as general of an audience as possible. By definition, it wouldn't necessarily be graduate level in the first place, pushing us back into the premise. Sorry, I'm not your LM to prompt. Yum.

Whatever you're speaking to folks, I think you have to think about the audience. I would probably try to make this presentation for as general of an audience as possible. By definition, it wouldn't necessarily be graduate level in the first place, pushing us back into the premise. Sorry, I'm not your LM to prompt. Yum.

Yeah, I mean, I would try to basically encourage everyone to try to build design literacy and figure out how do you get better and increase your abilities in the field of design. And I think that if you look at the next generation of entrepreneurs and founders and certainly software, but also in hardware, they are becoming so much more design literate. And again, maybe it's selection bias.

Yeah, I mean, I would try to basically encourage everyone to try to build design literacy and figure out how do you get better and increase your abilities in the field of design. And I think that if you look at the next generation of entrepreneurs and founders and certainly software, but also in hardware, they are becoming so much more design literate. And again, maybe it's selection bias.

I hear so many founders that tell me they start in Figma. And they're like in Figma design a lot of the time. They might not even have a designer on the team they aspire to, but they don't yet because they're just starting off. That's where a lot of folks live now is on this digital canvas trying to figure out how should something work.

I hear so many founders that tell me they start in Figma. And they're like in Figma design a lot of the time. They might not even have a designer on the team they aspire to, but they don't yet because they're just starting off. That's where a lot of folks live now is on this digital canvas trying to figure out how should something work.

And when I look at the future of people that will work in technology or folks that are going to be founders, when we look at the students that we reach with Figma through our EDU efforts. It's just incredible to see how advanced they are and how much they are deep diving on design as a discipline.

And when I look at the future of people that will work in technology or folks that are going to be founders, when we look at the students that we reach with Figma through our EDU efforts. It's just incredible to see how advanced they are and how much they are deep diving on design as a discipline.

And I think that more than we ever could have imagined, it's becoming a skill that I hope one day it'll be more like listing Microsoft Word on your resume. Right now, people put Figma on their resumes. If you put Microsoft Word on your resume, it's kind of like a red flag. And I hope we get to that status. Because it's so obvious that you should know how to design things.

And I think that more than we ever could have imagined, it's becoming a skill that I hope one day it'll be more like listing Microsoft Word on your resume. Right now, people put Figma on their resumes. If you put Microsoft Word on your resume, it's kind of like a red flag. And I hope we get to that status. Because it's so obvious that you should know how to design things.

That doesn't mean you're going to be a writer, but everyone should be able to engage in this point of design.

That doesn't mean you're going to be a writer, but everyone should be able to engage in this point of design.

Design principles span UX, but also visuals. They're very different when you're thinking about product versus branding. And so it depends a lot on what context we're talking about right now. I think if you're talking more on the software UX side, I would say the first things I see people mess up are when to reuse versus when to be inventive. There are plenty of patterns that users already know.

Design principles span UX, but also visuals. They're very different when you're thinking about product versus branding. And so it depends a lot on what context we're talking about right now. I think if you're talking more on the software UX side, I would say the first things I see people mess up are when to reuse versus when to be inventive. There are plenty of patterns that users already know.