• product / design education / illustration / motion • designer advocate, @figma • opinions are my own • he/him/his

Western New York
Joined March 2008
Ill be demoing how to make animations with custom shaders in @figma tomorrow. Those who join can have their work shown in a NYC venue next week! Ill also be in NYC at the Figma office giving live demos for students and educators. Share with a student who'll want to be there! Register here: buildingwithagent.figma.site…
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miggi from figgi retweeted
Still love exploring ideas and getting lost in the canvas.
“designing much faster than the others” — this so daft and makes it clear they don’t understand design at all. “Designing fast” (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate “producing ui by piecing together stuff” and “design” then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow. What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, it’s what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together. So many of today’s “design” AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. I’d love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isn’t concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.
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miggi from figgi retweeted
“designing much faster than the others” — this so daft and makes it clear they don’t understand design at all. “Designing fast” (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate “producing ui by piecing together stuff” and “design” then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow. What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, it’s what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together. So many of today’s “design” AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. I’d love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isn’t concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.
Revolut's designers are moving off Figma. Storonsky spotted one team designing much faster than the others. What they did: 1. Gave an LLM Revolut's design system at the code level 2. Prompted it to build new flows on top of that system 3. Got a live interface they can click through on a laptop or phone, instead of static frames Result: 3-4x faster. Now he's pushing it to every designer at Revolut. His job, as he describes it: find what works in one team and spread it across the company. Full breakdown here: productmarketfit.tech/p/revo…
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miggi from figgi retweeted
it feels like people are conflating design/design explorations with shipping/production. even though the latter is a likely end goal, the importance of @figma (and IMO any design tool) is/has always been for the former. it's being able to explore all the possibilities in an unconstrained space, lay them out in a shared place to make decisions, iterate/riff together and eventually communicate the what/why/how of your ideas and solutions
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Version history, but for your generative plugins and shaders (rolling out this week)
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Design tools are not just there to let you 'do your job'. Design tools should allow you to venture into the unknown and uncover ideas you didn't even know you could have.
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dear algo connect me with cool founders and builders in nyc so i can invite them to my party (open bar 😎) i’m new to nyc help (also i’ve been going to the places you guys recommended)
i’m in nyc and just rotting at a wework - good news: they have hella fire chinese food which i have already ripped twice - nyc wework lowk depressy af chat is it time to spin up an intro post for this new city i know less than 3 ppl here
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she made it to the big screen 🥹 @artechouse @figma
Replying to @figma
@figma shader making for afterimage 🫧 thank you @miggi and @jchenwan for the workshop!
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miggi from figgi retweeted
In the @figma Community, Share single designs, both static and motion designs as riffs. Upload or just share a frame, even one with motion. Now in beta, request access from your Community profile when you click post. Check out mine here: figma.com/@miggi/riffs
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miggi from figgi retweeted
You can now post riffs in @figma community profiles. Single frames that can be a static design or contain motion that others can copy and riff off of. Check out this trim path animation: figma.com/@miggi/riffs/3cc26…
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🎏 afterimage by @figma, 10-23-26
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So cute so cute!
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a vision of 2 months came to life. it wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible @miggi + our outstanding edu team ❤️‍🔥 thank you to every student who submitted their work 💌
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Replying to @jchenwan @miggi @figma
You guys killed it!
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at the @figma event students workshop exhibition was a blast! the event was so creative and LOOK AT THE PHOTO NOTEBOOK DECORATION i love how figma really listens to artists and knows their users figma is absolutely the best i use figma every day to make my app stitch
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miggi from figgi retweeted
took what I made during the cohort with @miggi and @jchenwan and turned it into a full calendar year :p
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Made in @figma by the Figma for Edu community with shaders built with the Figma agent, visionary event coordination by @jchenwan and some motion and workshops by yours truly.
Thank you to everyone who came out to our @figma agent / motion workshops in NYC this week, and submitted your work for display at @artechouse!!! This was really special!
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Shout out to glub glub labs for the custom photo booths and Kiki and bouba for the crafting tables.
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Thank you to everyone who came out to our @figma agent / motion workshops in NYC this week, and submitted your work for display at @artechouse!!! This was really special!
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miggi from figgi retweeted
absolutely incredible showcase of student art tonight — all made with @figma agent!! students designed in our new motion tool to build graphics for the gallery walls and also made custom shaders for our photo booths. so magical to see art and technology and infinitely creative students come together in one space
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