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Andrew leads insights at Figma, where he researches design and digital products and shapes company thinking. Previously, Andrew spent 7 years at Forrester, a leading research firm, analyzing the intersection of design and tech.
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Chris is on the product marketing team at Figma where he works across new products. Before working on new initiatives at Figma, he was the product marketer responsible for prototyping and design systems.
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Christine Røde is a product designer at The Browser Company. She led design for Arc Search on iOS and Android, and is now working on Dia, the company's new flagship product. Before this, she designed for WhatsApp, Facebook, Deliveroo, and more. Originally from Norway, she now calls London home.
- When:May 14 2:10 – 2:30 PM GMT+1
Designing for both iOS and Android—the Right Way
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Accessibility
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Dan is a Design Engineer at Tailwind CSS known for diving deep into how design tools actually work under the hood. Before joining Tailwind, he ran the design team at Raycast. When he's not building stuff, you'll find him writing detailed breakdowns about everything from blending modes to QR codes.
- When:May 14 1:30 – 1:50 PM GMT+1
Building color palettes for the modern web
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Web design
- Topic:Brand
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Devin is a multidisciplinary—I can’t do this… Nick, will you write this for me? Sure, Devin. An unholy marriage of wait-bump-this-2-more-px perfectionism and invert-this-it’s-boring chaos. Unforgivably talented, rarely filtered, poser repellent. From Florida, with skateboard. The people’s champ of effortless, undisciplined, precision graphic knife play. CEO of the internet and the best web designer I’ve ever met (and I’ve met most of them). -Nick
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Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma. Dylan studied computer science and mathematics at Brown University where he and his co-founder, Evan Wallace, first started experimenting with design tools built on (and for) the web. With funding from a Thiel fellowship, they began Figma. Prior to Figma, Dylan interned at O'Reilly Media, LinkedIn, and Flipboard.
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Ellen McGirt is an author, podcaster, speaker, community builder, and award-winning business journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of Design Observer, an independent media company that has maintained the same clear vision for more than two decades: to expand the definition of design in service of a better world. Ellen established the inclusive leadership beat at Fortune in 2016 with raceAhead, an award-winning newsletter on race, culture, and business. The Fortune, Time, Money, and Fast Company alumna has published over twenty magazine cover stories throughout her career, exploring the people and ideas changing business for good. Ask her about fly fishing if you get the chance.
- When:May 14 11:20 – 12:00 PM GMT+1
Driving industry transformation
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Strategy
- Topic:Scalability
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Gary Hustwit is a filmmaker and visual artist based in New York and CEO of Anamorph, a generative film studio. He has produced over 20 documentaries, including the pioneering design films Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, and Rams. The films have been broadcast on HBO, Netflix, PBS, BBC and outlets in 20 countries, and have been screened in over 300 cities worldwide. His latest project, Eno, is the world’s first generative feature film that changes every time it’s shown. Eno premiered at Sundance in 2024 and was shortlisted for an Academy Award.
Giuseppe Perri is a design leader with over 20 years of experience in system thinking, user-centered design, and digital product innovation. As Head of UX Guide & Foundation at Volvo Cars, he leads a central team that delivers cohesive digital experiences while shaping global design strategies. His career spans leadership roles at Electrolux, Ericsson, and others, where he honed expertise in interaction design, design systems, service design and agile methodologies. He blends business goals with user needs, striving for meaningful solutions and inclusive cultures.
- When:May 14 11:20 – 12:00 PM GMT+1
Driving industry transformation
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Strategy
- Topic:Scalability
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Hugo is a Designer Advocate based in London, with a background in design systems, business analysis and editorial design. Hugo is continually fascinated by both the work and working relationships of designers and developers and how they can foster better relationships, generating a culture where curiosity and mutual respect of each others disciplines is established.
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Ida Fey is a product manager working on Figma’s core design editor tooling. Before Figma, she was head of product at a sports betting app, and prior to that, she led the core product team at Squarespace. She feels most at home in messy UX problem spaces that require equal parts debate and love to get right. Ida recently moved from Brooklyn to Nashville, where she’s juggling life with twin toddler boys, a very energetic poodle, and a growing appreciation for live bluegrass.
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Jenny Xie is a writer and editor on Figma’s Story Studio team, bringing to light stories about how products take shape—and shape our world. Previously, she was the executive editor of Dwell Magazine, and her first novel, Holding Pattern, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and National Book Foundation honoree.
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Kishan Koriya manages the native design system at Lloyds Banking Group. Setting the strategic direction, he guided designers and developers to utilize design tokens for the first time across 12 mobile banking apps and deploy the Lloyds rebrand into the app experience. Passionate about establishing sustainable multi-brand design systems that enable products to be built with scale, efficiency, and cohesion, his leadership has fostered a true sense of collaboration across all disciplines.
- When:May 14 11:00 – 11:20 AM GMT+1
Lloyds reimagined: the future of digital-first rebrands
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Design systems
- Topic:Collaboration
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Marla Mitelman leads the Rapid Experiments team in J.P. Morgan’s Digital Innovation and Experience Design practice in London. Her journey in human-centered design started in the late 1990s driven by her passion to create useful experiences that include and work for everyone. Marla has previously held positions at BCG Digital Ventures, where she led the Experience Design Cohort in Sydney. She has worked for a diverse range of clients, including Microsoft, Toyota, AIA, Vodafone, and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
- When:May 14 11:20 – 12:00 PM GMT+1
Driving industry transformation
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Strategy
- Topic:Scalability
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Mojola Balogun is a software engineer at Figma developing AI tools to help designers transform their ideas into reality. He has worked across Figma’s products, supporting features like Comments, Jambot, AI-powered Asset Search, as well as other new initiatives. When he’s not at his laptop keyboard, you can find him jamming on his piano keyboard livening up the streets of San Francisco!
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Nick was a Flash designer/dev until Steve Jobs busted the party. He landed at Stripe in 2017, grew dependent on Devin’s design skills and brought globes, waves, and 3d books to the web. Now he writes single-file, endless JavaScript functions that paint websites on HTML canvas. Twirling, strobing, hypnotic gpu-melters. No system, no objective, nothing twice.
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Ning is a content designer based in London and Singapore. He is a big fan of words and language. Medium fan of metaphors. Rather small fan of unpacking them. He is proof that liberal arts majors can, in fact, get tech jobs. In his free time, he busks with a typewriter.
- When:May 14 3:15 – 3:35 PM GMT+1
Stop with the dirty tricks: confessions of a UX skeptic
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Content design
- Topic:UX
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Noah Levin is VP of Design at Figma, overseeing Product Design, Research, UX writing, and Design Ops. He joined Figma as their first Design Manager in 2017, and before that worked on Search/AI at Google, building social fitness products at ClassPass, teaching designers to code with Framer, and making astronaut watches at NASA. He believes nothing great is made alone, is based in San Francisco with his wife Vina and dog Izzy, and outside of work is a big musical theater fan and avid TV binger.
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Stine is the Chief Product Officer at Polaroid where she looks after the full Product journey across Hardware and Digital from R&D, Engineering, Industrial and Product Design, Product Management, to Packaging, and the overall User Experience. The ultimate mission for her and her team is to bring the Polaroid spirit of human creativity and connection to the 21st century. Stine started her career at Spotify, Apple and The New York Times.
- When:May 14 12:00 – 12:20 PM GMT+1
Reinventing Polaroid for the 21st century
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Hardware
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TJ is a maker, builder, designer and technical partner to Figma’s strategic customers. He works with product teams to realize generative, living patterns of design in their practice. Drawing on his background in user experience and technical architecture, he helps teams answer the question: what should we build next?
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Tara Nadella is a San Francisco–based Product Manager at Figma. She began her journey on the Slides team, bringing the product from beta to general availability, contributed to this year’s April Fun FigPals feature, and now focuses on design system initiatives within the AI team. A Harvard graduate in computer science with a focus on HCI and neuroscience, Tara thrives at the crossroads of diverse disciplines and their impact on product design and implementation.She’s thrilled to be part of Figma’s vibrant community of designers, dreamers, and doers—empowering teams to transform possibilities into pixels and pixels into products.
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Taryn Cowart is a designer and creative director based in Portland, Oregon. She’s a design manager on Figma’s Brand Studio team, maintains an independent design practice, and writes a newsletter called Critical Optimism. In past lives she led brand design at GitHub, worked on all things product and brand at agencies Instrument and Rumors, developed soulful spaces at Ace Hotel, and taught at Portland State University. She's worked with great clients like Apple, Airbnb, Epic Games, Bomb Magazine, NASA, Pace Gallery, and Verso Books.
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Timothy Achumba is a Principal Product Designer at Microsoft, leading a prototyping team exploring innovative AI interactions. With over a decade of experience in product design, including roles at Meta and Wunderlist, he specializes in designing AI-driven tools that enhance creativity and productivity. He also runs Akuko Labs, where he designs mechanical keyboards and keycap sets that blend art, design, and technology.
- When:May 14 1:50 – 2:10 PM GMT+1
How Figma became my gateway to physical product design
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Hardware
- Topic:Prototyping
- Topic:Brand
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Vishal Kapoor is a lead designer with over 15 years of experience in design systems, visual language, and digital brands. He has led transformative projects for global companies like IBM, Jaguar Land Rover, Virgin Media, Deutsche Bank, Cisco Meraki, and Shell. Currently, he leads the Design Language team at Lloyds Banking Group, contributing to the Lloyds Bank rebrand and new app experience. Vishal is also a certified yoga teacher, dedicated to holistic wellbeing, teaching mindfulness practices within his community.
- When:May 14 11:00 – 11:20 AM GMT+1
Lloyds reimagined: the future of digital-first rebrands
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Design systems
- Topic:Collaboration
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Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma, where he leads the product and design teams. Before joining Figma, he was at Uber for over 4 years, where he led the redesign of both the rider and driver apps. Prior to that, he was responsible for the YouTube app on iOS at Google.
- When:May 14 12:00 – 12:20 PM GMT+1
Reinventing Polaroid for the 21st century
- Theme:Design craft
- Topic:Hardware