Dan Mall

Jun 7, 2024 | figma.com | Peter Yang |Dan Mall

The first product Charmaine Lee ever loved was an unassuming code editor in Neopets that let her personalize her profile with custom colors, fonts, and images in real time. Fast forward several years, and the software engineer–turned–product manager has loved many other tools for developers like the Slack API, Unity, and of course, Lens Studio by Snap AR, the AR experience builder she’s working on now.

Jan 30, 2024 | figma.com | Shishir Mehrotra |Dan Mall

Whatever your social media platforms are, there’s a fair chance that Peter Yang has built a product for them. His career stretches back over a decade, starting with an early career pivot from product marketing into product management during a three-year stint at Meta. He went on to build products at platforms such as Reddit, Twitch, and X (formerly Twitter).

Jan 25, 2024 | figma.com | Aaron Britt |Dan Mall |Rebecca Ackermann |Lauren McCann

Oct 20, 2023 | linkedin.com | Dan Mall

The second worst trick designers ever pulled was convincing the world that design is primarily about colors and fonts. The worst trick designers ever pulled was believing that ourselves. Designers have one of the biggest unfair advantages for success in the world: we’re skilled, trained, and practiced and prioritizing and making decisions. Think about the act of creating a color palette. In the RGB spectrum, there are 16,777,216 different colors available.

Oct 12, 2023 | figma.com | John Maeda |Dan Mall

Figma Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita and I talked about rituals at Config 2023, Figma's annual conference; I'm told that the talk is one of Figma's most rewatched sessions to date. In the world of product development, Shishir Mehrotra is a consummate collector—not of patents or C-suite titles (though as a product leader at Microsoft, Google, and now Co-founder and CEO at Coda, he’s amassed his fair share of both)—but of workplace rituals.