Amber Bravo

2 weeks ago | figma.com | Carly Ayres |Jenny Xie |Amber Bravo

Welcome to Double Click, where our community weighs in on trending topics in tech and design. We’re witnessing a Cambrian explosion of AI tools redefining what software can do—and who can create it. Every day brings new writing assistants, design generators, and research platforms, all adding fuel to the meme that’s become a tech mantra: “You can just do things.” At the core of this catchphrase is the feeling that anyone can make anything happen.

2 months ago | figma.com | Jenny Xie |Amber Bravo |Jake Albaugh

Welcome to Double Click, where we ask our community to weigh in on trending topics in tech and design. When tech’s resident AI explainer, former OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, posted about something he called “vibe coding” earlier this month, it hit a nerve with tech Twitter. “There’s a new kind of coding where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists,” he wrote, describing how he now builds projects by simply talking to AI.

Jan 9, 2025 | figma.com | Amber Bravo |Alia Fite

In 1985, Italian writer Italo Calvino outlined five qualities for literature’s future, enumerated in a series of planned lectures before his death. His wife Esther titled the posthumous collection Six Memos for the Next Millennium, choosing “memo”—a word she said “delighted” him—to describe these brief messages to the future. Short for memorandum, a memo is a written communication primarily used in business—a way of conveying ideas or information between colleagues and organizations.

Oct 15, 2024 | figma.com | Kris Rasmussen |Amber Bravo |Noah Levin

At Config 2024, we introduced new AI-powered search features that allow you to search across all of the designs and published components in a team or organization. We had heard countless stories of users struggling to locate a specific design or component, especially when working across large organizations with complex design systems. Now with AI-powered search, you can find what you’re looking for using just a screenshot, selection of Figma layers, or even a text description.

Jul 11, 2024 | figma.com | Dylan Field |Amber Bravo |Jenny Xie

Config is held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, and it’s a huge space. We played with scale on every surface, including wrapping vinyl graphics around the building exterior. Box kites: One Hat One HandEvent production: Sparks and EncoreMotion: Relay and Jordan ScottPhotography: Ross Mantle and Preston GannawaySound: Sounds Like TheseWebsite development: Big MarkerEvery year, our Brand Studio team faces an exciting challenge: creating a visual language for Config, Figma’s annual user conference.