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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.
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1 month ago | 
proofofconcept.pub | David Hoang |Carly Ayres
The term “vibe coding” has taken the internet since Andrej Kaparthy posted about it online:There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
figma.com | Carly Ayres |Dylan Field |Jessica Svendsen |Chad Colby
Config, our annual conference for people who build products, is expanding its footprint in 2025 with two events designed to connect and inspire our global community: a three-day summit in San Francisco and—for the first time—a day-long event in London that brings Config’s collaborative energy to Europe. The action starts May 6, when we kick off the conference at Config Commons, your place to connect with the Config community.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
figma.com | Carly Ayres |Mallory Dean
There are places you know you belong: your desk, your home, the team meeting where you know what small talk to expect and who will ask the most questions (in my experience, it’s usually me). Then there are the spaces where you know you don’t belong. For me, those are fine-dining restaurants, my partner’s dojo, and Eng Crits where they start talking about Codemods and JS modularization. Finally, there are the places where you hope to belong, but sometimes feel like an imposter.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
carly.substack.com | Carly Ayres |Kate Bingaman-Burt |Wendy MacNaughton |Kara Haupt
I’m a sucker for a fresh start. Not in a “new year, new me” way, but in the messy, iterative way of trying to gradually improve. Like a new pair of shoes or a blank page—a new year is full of potential. You could argue it’s just an arbitrary mile marker, a futile attempt to wrangle time into submission, but it stands as a feat of human ingenuity that we’re able to do so at all—using a system of leap years like this one—to within about 27 seconds alignment with the solar year.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
proofofconcept.pub | Ben Lang |David Hoang |Carly Ayres |Ali Rohde
In 2001, 17 software practitioners wrote The Agile Manifesto—the Code of Hammurabi for software development practices. Agile software development is an iterative and collaborative approach to creating software, emphasizing flexibility, customer feedback, and delivering small, incremental improvements quickly. Today, the practice of agile dominates and is the most common methodology adopted for delivering software.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
figma.com | Carly Ayres |Jenny Xie |Jessica Svendsen |Chad Colby
In our series exploring Figma’s brand refresh, we’ve dug into our new visual language and Figma Sans, our new custom typeface. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on how we’ve used Figma’s latest features to revamp our web design system. Back in 2020, we shared how we built our design system for our website, figma.com. That site had one job: to introduce a new design tool to the world. Fast forward to 2024, and things look pretty different.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
figma.com | Ryhan Hassan |Joel Miller |KC Oh |Carly Ayres
Our goal with UI3, our latest interface for Figma, is to keep designers in the flow by minimizing distractions and placing their work center stage. With that north star in mind, our team worked for over two years, iterating on myriad approaches—even reversing some core design decisions, like the floating navigation and properties panels, after launch. It’s all been in service of delivering the next generation of Figma UI to the millions of people who use it everyday.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
carly.substack.com | Carly Ayres
Remember the joke that “the internet is forever”? Well, it turns out that’s only true if someone cares enough to keep it that way. Last month, the design community was rocked by the sudden disappearance of AIGA Eye on Design, a publication that had been chronicling the ins and outs of the design industry since it was founded by the imitable Perrin Drumm in 2014.
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May 29, 2024 | 
figma.com | Shishir Mehrotra |Carly Ayres
The Linear team runs on strong opinions that might seem counterintuitive to outsiders. Here’s how those principles show up in both the product and their processes. Well-designed interfaces don’t just happen. Great product experiences are the result of great people, tools, and of course, processes. These processes are hard to get right. While some rallying cries reach the notoriety of Meta’s “Move fast and break things,” others run the risk of simply being the work about the work.
