Yuhki Yamashita

Jan 9, 2025 | figma.com | Peter Yang |Andrew Hogan |Yuhki Yamashita

As we enter the new year, you’re probably already in execution mode, working through carefully plotted 6-to-12 month roadmaps. Your team has done the heavy lifting of synthesizing research and user feedback, aligning with other teams, and ensuring that your plan is adequately resourced. Now, it’s time to go from scoping to shipping. There are Gantt charts to make, kickoffs to have, and launch strategies to create. But before you get consumed by the tactics and to-dos, take a step back.

May 9, 2024 | figma.com | Carly Ayres |Yuhki Yamashita

It’s easy to dismiss craft and beauty as mere aesthetics, says Katie Dill, Head of Design at Stripe. But that changes in a crowded market. “The quality and details become the differentiation,” she says. “We’re eager to prioritize craft and beauty not simply because we think the world is better when it’s more beautiful, but also because quality is important for growth.” In fact, by focusing on the details in the Stripe checkout experience, businesses using it now see 11.9% more revenue on average.

Mar 6, 2024 | figma.com | Sho Kuwamoto |Evan Wallace |Yuhki Yamashita

Every now and again, we ship a feature that makes us wonder how we ever got along without it. That’s certainly the story with multi-edit, which simplifies how you edit multiple objects across Figma. Now that it’s here, multi-edit feels like a natural part of Figma, but it deviates from an industry-wide norm on how selections work, and working out the details took time. Multi-edit had multiple lives before we were able to finally switch on that feature flag.

Jan 24, 2024 | figma.com | Dylan Field |Jenny Xie |Yuhki Yamashita |Lauren McCann

Jan 24, 2024 | figma.com | Kris Rasmussen |Yuhki Yamashita |Carly Ayres |Andrew Hogan

Design systems are going to go through a big shift over the next few years, and I think the best way to predict the future is to create it.