Dylan Field

And sometimes it's very useful to be inventive and create new patterns. And that's why something can catch on. And sometimes it's not. I would say that people fail to consider flows. So a lot of times they don't think about where a user is coming from. They think only about a certain state that someone's in right now. And that context, if they lack it, can hurt them and hurt their experience.

And sometimes it's very useful to be inventive and create new patterns. And that's why something can catch on. And sometimes it's not. I would say that people fail to consider flows. So a lot of times they don't think about where a user is coming from. They think only about a certain state that someone's in right now. And that context, if they lack it, can hurt them and hurt their experience.

I think that they often are too indirect. So they have complex ways of manipulating data where you have to manipulate it on maybe it's one screen over here and you have to go to a different screen to be able to see the effect or it's not all in one place. You can't get that call and response, that immediate feedback loop.

I think that they often are too indirect. So they have complex ways of manipulating data where you have to manipulate it on maybe it's one screen over here and you have to go to a different screen to be able to see the effect or it's not all in one place. You can't get that call and response, that immediate feedback loop.

That doesn't mean that you have to be direct manipulation like a tool like Figma, but the closer you can get the manipulation to the effect, I think is better. And then I think more than 20 is the stuff that we try to meme-ify inside of Figma. Make the simple things simple, the complex things possible. And that's not an original Figmaism that goes back a long ways. Famous design quote.

That doesn't mean that you have to be direct manipulation like a tool like Figma, but the closer you can get the manipulation to the effect, I think is better. And then I think more than 20 is the stuff that we try to meme-ify inside of Figma. Make the simple things simple, the complex things possible. And that's not an original Figmaism that goes back a long ways. Famous design quote.

But I would say that it's easy to just endlessly do what users want, add more power to applications, and then end up with something super complex that's not usable, not approachable. It's one of the biggest risks for Figma. that we're always trying to counterbalance is how to make sure that we're not too power user, despite people using us for powerful things.

But I would say that it's easy to just endlessly do what users want, add more power to applications, and then end up with something super complex that's not usable, not approachable. It's one of the biggest risks for Figma. that we're always trying to counterbalance is how to make sure that we're not too power user, despite people using us for powerful things.

That's something that we work on a lot as an organization.

That's something that we work on a lot as an organization.

So yeah, like all of them. VR for me is something that I've deeply enjoyed exploring because I think that it's an example of so many new patterns being created and tried. I still think that mobile, whether it's iPhone size screen or a iPad size screen, there's so many more patterns and interactions that could be explored than are being explored. is really limited by how much people can learn.

So yeah, like all of them. VR for me is something that I've deeply enjoyed exploring because I think that it's an example of so many new patterns being created and tried. I still think that mobile, whether it's iPhone size screen or a iPad size screen, there's so many more patterns and interactions that could be explored than are being explored. is really limited by how much people can learn.

Just think about how hard it was for Apple to teach people how to long press on an iPhone in order to select text. There's an unlimited potential for how many of those interactions exist, but there's only a limited attention span to teach the consumer.

Just think about how hard it was for Apple to teach people how to long press on an iPhone in order to select text. There's an unlimited potential for how many of those interactions exist, but there's only a limited attention span to teach the consumer.

But when you have something like VR, where you have a bunch of early adopters, and you can teach them through game mechanics, because it's mostly a gaming platform at this point, then you have this awesome ability to go and experiment. And yeah, a lot of the experiments won't work, but just early computing interfaces, some of them will, and some of them will be like really fasting.

But when you have something like VR, where you have a bunch of early adopters, and you can teach them through game mechanics, because it's mostly a gaming platform at this point, then you have this awesome ability to go and experiment. And yeah, a lot of the experiments won't work, but just early computing interfaces, some of them will, and some of them will be like really fasting.

and maybe we'll see with other platforms like more augmented reality type glasses or eventually bcis bcis are kind of like the ultimate interface and if you can get to the point where your intent is an input and then you're creating something it's kind of the grail and so it's very exciting you strike me as open-minded and optimistic about all these things and curious about them all

and maybe we'll see with other platforms like more augmented reality type glasses or eventually bcis bcis are kind of like the ultimate interface and if you can get to the point where your intent is an input and then you're creating something it's kind of the grail and so it's very exciting you strike me as open-minded and optimistic about all these things and curious about them all

I mean, the obvious dark pattern for BCIs, if you are like a true believer, is wireheading where you basically have the fentanyl button. You just keep pressing it in a dark room in the corner. That's a bad one. Yeah. I mean, I guess like as dark as you can go.

I mean, the obvious dark pattern for BCIs, if you are like a true believer, is wireheading where you basically have the fentanyl button. You just keep pressing it in a dark room in the corner. That's a bad one. Yeah. I mean, I guess like as dark as you can go.