
VP Design @Figma
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
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Having fun this week? Want to keep the fun going?
Our Design team is hiring: figma.com/careers/
Watching nobody wants this season 3, and my wife and I went crazy hearing fire alarm battery beeping sounds and went around changing out batteries in each alarm only to realize it was from the show… why would they torture us like that???
Noah Levin retweeted
👋 If you ARE one of the few people thinking about the language and grammar of software interfaces (or design and brand systems, or expressive design) then I would love to tell you about the work we are doing on the model design team at Figma to augment creative workflows!
Replying to @dankuntz
the real answer is simply that very few people have thought about the language or grammar of software interfaces sufficiently to view it as correctly solved problem. And those people are certainly not training LLMs in that way.
Programming has a very obvious headstart in this way.
lol in the age of testing personal assistants, getting way too many notifications… appreciate all the assistance but I’m gonna need some assistance on my assistants
3D Printing is SO freaking fun.
I made a site with @figma Make + Payload (CMS) that auto publishes each print from my Bambu P2S as it's printing / printed.
noah3dprints.figma.site/
So excited about Figma’s Config India launches!
June's Config themes were around Tools and Materials (Motion, Shaders, Plugins, Weave, etc)
This time around, it’s all about Context and Workflows (Code Layers, Design Systems, Specs, Payload)
Let’s take a closer look…
Payload: You can now work with real data, directly in Figma Make. It’s never been so easy to manage an entire backend without having to touch a line of code
I used it most recently to share my 3D print log with friends automatically (noah3dprints.figma.site) and it worked like a charm!
All of these launches bring together richer context for you, your agents, and your team to design the best products
And the Figma agent lives at the center, making it easier than ever to explore ideas quickly, edit directly on the canvas, and build with your team in one shared space
I’m so proud of the team for all the hard work that went into this, and can’t wait to see what you all build with these new workflows in hand!
Recap post: figma.com/blog/build-by-desi…
Noah Levin retweeted
you'll do your best work in a tool that allows you to be whimsical, too!
🔊🔊🔊 — lol i've lost hours building fun stuff like this with code layers…
@figma code layers starting to roll out into open beta TODAY! incredibly excited to see what you'll cook!
Noah Levin retweeted
Did you know about Figma's chrome extension? Well, now you do! And we've improved it!
Press the “capture code” button to create a Code Layer on the canvas :)
Config India is almost here!!
If you happen to be stuck on the west coast in the US like me, the product launch keynote is TONIGHT at 9:40pm PT.
Stay up and watch with me! It'll be streamed right here:
config.figma.com/india/
This week on Source Material: Ben Ganz shares the books, typography, and visual references that shape his multidisciplinary design practice.
00:14 Andy Warhol’s Index (Book) (Andy Warhol, 1967)
01:10 The Bald Soprano (Eugène Ionesco, Massin, & Henry Cohen, 1965)
01:58 Your Action World: Winners Are Losers with a New Attitude (David Byrne & Stefan Sagmeister, 1999)
03:18 The Forms of Color (Karl Gerstner, 1986)
04:22 Swatch: A Guide for Connoisseurs and Collectors (Frank Edwards, 1998)
04:50 Swatch DaimlerChrysler Set (Swatch, 1998)
05:37 On Aluminium (Michel Majerus, 2017)
06:37 Nest Summer 2001 “Joint Issue” (Joseph Holtzman, 2001)
07:30 Nest Winter 2000/2001 Issue (Joseph Holtzman, 2001)
08:28 High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home (Joan Kron & Suzanne Slesin, 1978)
09:08 USM NYC by Ben Ganz (USM Haller & Ben Ganz, 2025)
10:24 References & Credits
Figma's Dylan Field says our definition of "slop" keeps silently moving:
"I said, 'AI will lower the floor and raise the ceiling.' And I had to correct myself, because actually that's not what we're seeing yet."
"We're seeing it lower the floor. It's more democratized to do something. But the ceiling doesn't seem to have changed."
"Anything you can verify, AI's great at. Math being number one, maybe cybersecurity number two... You get five designers in a room, they can't agree all the time on exactly what they should do. And that's what's interesting about design. There is not one solution."
"A lot of the stuff that we call slop wouldn't be stuff we'd call slop a month ago or two months ago. As the models change, our definition of slop changes."
"The craft that you imbue into something is reflective of your thinking. It's reflective of your care. People pick up on it. Whether they can articulate it or not, they can tell."
"It creates a lower bound that you have to exceed, but it doesn't define the upper bound. You define the ceiling."
@zoink w/ @sophiadew on @MTSLive
In case you're wondering the Figma MCP does in fact work really well with iOS / MacOS :)
Just ask your agent to drop designs it into a Figma file - and it should create high fidelity views with tokens based on your own tokens etc etc
(ps. the whole buildout was <10m but chopped for tweet sake)












