Speakers

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.

Addison Rodomista is a UX design leader with over 10 years of experience, currently leading design for Google Chat. Previously, Addison worked as a design engineer at Condé Nast and Ogilvy, and as an indie game developer. He is focused on leveraging AI to evolve the designer’s role and help teams deliver more thoughtful, delightful outcomes.

Alexia is a designer advocate at Figma based out of Paris, France. Having worked across the spectrum of design for over 10 years, she is passionate about unlocking creative impact in organizations, building a more inclusive and diverse industry, and crafting magical “a-ha” moments along the way. When she’s not busy hanging out with fellow designers, you may find her traveling to tea fields or reviewing croissants.

Alicia is Figma’s Community Product Manager, where she builds tools and resources for designers and makers around the world. With a decade of experience launching products from zero to scale, she’s passionate about creating tools that give people back their time, so they can spend less of it working and more of it creating and living. For her, that means early morning trails and a camera always within reach.

Amy Lima is a Designer Advocate at Figma building the bridges between design and dev workflows on Figma's platform through education, events, and hands-on enablement.

Grammy award winning recording artist.

Andy Zhang is the Lead Design Engineer for Google Antigravity at Google DeepMind. He was previously a product manager and designer, and was also an early engineering intern at Figma. He studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo and spends his free time tinkering, running marathons, and writing.

Anna Oh leads design and product at Norbert Health, creating robotic AI that delivers care to seniors with cognitive or mobility limitations. She designs for one of healthcare’s most complex populations—older adults living with dementia or physical decline—bridging human emotion and machine intelligence through human-robot interaction. With 13 years across Samsung's marketing group, Teladoc Health, and healthcare startups, she unites human-computer interaction, healthcare AI, and product strategy to redefine care delivery.

Avery has been a software engineer at Figma since 2022, spending her tenure building REST APIs, plugin infrastructure, and integrations that let developers and designers extend Figma. When she's not building new APIs or modernizing the platform, you'll find Avery trail running, biking, or making floral arrangements for friends.

Beau is a versatile designer and illustrator based in Winter Park, FL. For the last three years, he's shaped features enjoyed by 15+ million players in EA's skate. AAA video game and built the design systems keeping Full Circle Studio in sync. With over 17 years across video games, web, mobile, and print, at corporations, agencies, startups, and his own studio CōASTAL CO., he's designed at scale everywhere. These days, he's passionate about integrating AI into design workflows, helping teams work smarter without losing the human touch.

Ben is an Engineering Manager on Figma Make focused interweaving code and design with new AI tools. He's led efforts like converting HTML to design layers, direct manipulation of code with visual editing, and AI-powered search. Previously Ben led teams at Assemble and Intercom building 0 to 1 products. He's an avid board gamer and indie video game enthusiast.

Ben is equal parts design nerd and creative mentor, bringing a playful curiosity to complex challenges and a love of user-centered everything. As Head of Design at Blink UX, he helps shape the vision for industry giants like Amazon, Microsoft, NASA, and The New York Times. Beyond agency work, he teaches at Northeastern University, spreading his enthusiasm for making tech less frustrating and more equitable. Ben loves a tricky design problem, and while he'll usually keep his opinions on grids and typography in check, mention Murphy beds and all bets are off.

Bobby Meixner is the Vice President of Solution Marketing at UserTesting. Bobby has been helping businesses optimize and scale their customer experiences for nearly 20 years through his leadership roles at Oracle, eBay, and Magento. He resides in Los Angeles and when he’s not talking about customer experience, he can be found on the pickleball courts.

Brent David Freaney is the founder and principal of New York–based creative agency Special Offer, Inc. His work spans art direction, brand identity, campaigns, publications, live media, and album packaging. In addition to his work with his studio, he is currently the Global Art Director for i-D magazine, collaborating with world-renowned talent to develop visual systems across print, screen, and space. In 2025, he received a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.

Brett McMillin is a designer advocate at Figma with a background in brand, product, and design systems. He spends most of his time thinking about how design evolves—what AI changes, what it doesn't, and how designers stay grounded in their craft through all of it.

Brian Ringley is a distinguished product manager and HRI designer at Boston Dynamics where he leads agentic AI behavior authoring and digital twin product development for the world's most advanced robots.

Before working at Boston Dynamics, he worked as a CNC and industrial robotic arm programmer and machinist, practiced architecture as a façade modeler and BIM software developer, piloted emerging mobile robotics solutions for the commercial real estate market, and commissioned advanced manufacturing lines for industrialized construction.

Carola Pescio Canale leads AI Design for Atlassian’s Rovo & Jira AI teams, where she focuses on foundational AI, agentic capabilities, and product experiences across the Atlassian product suite, with a special focus on how AI shows up in everyday workflows. Before Atlassian, Carola led design teams at Dropbox working on Desktop, Mobile and AI teams.

Carola lives in Alameda with her family and is passionate about building design cultures where craft, systems thinking, and inclusive leadership all have a seat at the table.

Catt is a Staff Product Designer at Dropbox, game maker, and developer. She has worked with companies of all sizes including Asana, Etsy, SoundCloud, and Nasdaq. She started coding around the age of 10 and designing at the age of 15. She graduated from SVA with a BFA in Graphic Design in 2011 and later received an MS in Integrated Digital Media from NYU in 2016. Catt also makes awkward video games, writes about professional development, and draws artwork of all kinds. You can view her work at cattsmall.com.

Chad is a designer advocate at Figma, where he works with the design system community to share product and collaborative best practices, and surface feedback for Figma's product teams. Over his career he has led and contributed to design systems across single-brand, multi-brand, and white-label contexts. When he's not in front of a screen, he's with his family, making music, checking out new coffee roasters, or hunting for records.

Chelsea leads content design at Anthropic. She writes, illustrates, and makes exceptional sandwiches.

Chloe Fagan-Tucker is a seasoned business development & product partnerships leader driving strategic growth and product innovation. She currently leads AI and productivity solution partnerships at Google Workspace. Previously, Chloe led commerce & shopping partnerships at Meta. With nearly two decades of experience spanning tech, finance, and investing, she specializes in transformative deal execution at the intersection of AI and digital transformation. Chloe grew up in Atlanta, GA, and holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and a BA from Duke University.

Chris has spent 15+ years shaping brands as a Creative Director, Head of Brand Design, and visual artist. After starting in advertising, he joined Uber Eats in 2017 to help build its brand from the ground up, leading its design through three logos, two CEOs, and one IPO. Since 2019, he’s brought that same energy to Plaid—helping redefine how money and tech look and feel in the digital age. He believes when design lets tech play, transform, or tell stories, people connect with it—and keep coming back.

Craig is a Flutter enthusiast who uses his powers for good, if you like Flutter, or for evil, if you don't. In his spare time, Craig loves to stress out about the world; after which he tries to relax by going on hikes with his wife and husky or playing games like D&D or StarCraft.

Daniela Muntyan is a Product Designer at Figma. Originally from Ukraine and now based in London, she loves building design tools and side projects that make people’s work more creative, productive, and delightful.

Danit Peleg created the world's first 3D-printed fashion collection using desktop printers. Over the past decade, her lab has pioneered techniques for printing soft, wearable textiles — integrating AI to design custom garments made on demand, with zero waste. She's currently leading R&D that transforms fashion production waste into 3D-printed fabrics, closing the loop on circular manufacturing. Her work has attracted collaborations with luxury and sportswear brands, two patents, and features in Vogue, NYT, Forbes and many more. Danit is a TED Speaker and was named to Forbes Europe's Top 50 Women in Tech.

Darby is a Senior Product Designer based in San Francisco with over 10 years of experience across industries including e-commerce, crowdfunding, finance, and developer tools. She's on the Billing Design team at GitHub and before that she was helping creators get paid at Patreon.

Dave is a Product Manager on Figma's Expressive Design team, where he focuses on building tools that give creators more power to express themselves. With just over a year at Figma, he's still driven by a simple belief: the best products get out of the way and let people make amazing things. Nothing makes Dave happier than seeing someone use the tools he's built to create something he never thought was possible.

Ella Rochelle-Lawton is a San Francisco illustrator and designer who creates work that connects people, from public murals and installations to brand and community projects. With a BFA and Certificate in Design Innovation from UC Berkeley, she works as a designer, public artist, and a street art instructor, collaborating with groups from Adobe, Google, and Figma to support team building and community focused design. Her practice reflects a belief that good design starts with people and grows through shared experience.

Elle is a product manager at Figma working on solutions that bring designers + non-engineers closer to code! Previously, she worked at the intersection of AI and developer tools at GitHub and MongoDB.

Elliott studied Graphic Design at Savannah College of Art and Design and has spent the last 20 years building brands and digital products across agencies and in-house teams. These days he's at ESPN, helping teams do better work, faster.

Emily is a design leader with experience spanning fintech and automotive at Rocket and General Motors. As Director of Product Design at Rocket, she leads the Design System and Rocket Assist (AI chat and voice) team—work that informed Rocket's brand evolution and is shaping the future of product and experience in the AI era. She's helping Rocket move from digital-first to AI-native, believing quality is a strategy and embedding craft into systems, processes, and team culture from the start. She holds degrees from Michigan State University and calls Detroit home.

Frederick is the founder of a six-person design studio that helps B2B SaaS teams design better software, faster. With a background in product design and a love for systems thinking, he has led the studio's transformation from a traditional product design team into a hybrid design-engineering partner.

He believes the best design studios think in systems, not screens - and that design and engineering are just two sides of the same craft.

Frederik Ueberschär is a Senior Designer for Creative Technology at Electrolux in Stockholm, shaping the future of home appliances. Operating at the intersection of design and engineering, he creates novel workflows that bridge digital tools with physical products for faster, higher-fidelity prototyping. With experiences that include Volkswagen R&D and a Master’s degree in Design for Interaction from TU Delft, where he explored machine learning as a design tool, Frederik has a passion for crafting interactive experiences that come to life with code and electronics.

Gal Sharir is a product designer and part of the founding team of Figma Weave. As a designer and developer, she talks to her computer a lot - and is fascinated by what it talks back. Her work has long explored poetic image-making using code, a practice that has taken on new dimensions with the rise of AI, opening up unexpected ways to blend human creativity with machine intelligence.

Georgia Rust is a product manager and angel investor. At Figma, she works within the Creation Engine pillar, focusing on strengthening the foundational elements that power the design experience—including the Figma canvas, Design Systems, AI capabilities, and animation features. Before joining Figma, Georgia held roles at Abstract and GitHub, where she developed her passion for building products that enhance designer and developer workflows. In her free time, you might find her making wine, on a chairlift in Big Sky, MT, or taking her two Australian shepherds on an adventure.

Giulio is a Product Designer at Spotify, leading design for the Desktop and Web teams. Before joining Spotify, he led design at Pluto.Travel, growing the app from prototype to a 4.8-rated product, and spent several years at Fjord London, where his work for the West Midlands Police won Best in Public Sector at the 2018 Service Design Awards.

Grant Sanderson is the creator of the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown. The channel, watched by millions, offers a unique animated approach to visualizing mathematics and related topics in computer science and physics. He created the open source python library Manim to power the visuals for the videos.

After graduating from Stanford, Sanderson initially worked for Khan Academy before focusing full-time on 3Blue1Brown. He has also lectured for MIT, and contributed to many other popular math outlets, including visuals for a documentary which went on to win an Emmy for outstanding graphic design.

Harald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, leading AI developer experiences in VS Code and GitHub Copilot. His current focus: context engineering and agentic workflows—the systems that turn AI tools into organizational capabilities for 40+ million developers. Previously, he led Firefox DevTools at Mozilla and shipped Firefox Quantum. Engineering roots in open-source, MooTools, and early web standards keep him grounded in real developer problems

As the HMI Design lead at Ather, Harish has spent a decade developing user experiences for multiple vehicles. Leveraging his expertise in both transportation design and computer science, he has contributed to several innovative features across product lines. Notably, he pioneered the interfaces for the first smart connected vehicle, shaping both tangible and digital user interactions.

Harvey is a senior designer on Meta’s Monetization Design team, focused on the future of AI-assisted design and measurement products. He leads initiatives exploring how AI can meet Meta’s quality bar for design work at scale—across products like Ads Manager, Attribution, and Optimization. Harvey also pilots next-generation design workflows, including Figma Make and Model Context Protocol (MCP), to enable designers to orchestrate agents, not pixels.

Holly Herndon is an artist renowned for her pioneering work in machine learning, software and music. She develops her own technology, and protocols for living with the technology of others, often with a focus on the ownership and augmentation of digital identity and voice. These technical systems not only facilitate expansive artworks across media, but are proposed as artworks unto themselves.

She co-runs an art studio in Berlin with her partner Mathew Dryhurst and co-founded Spawning, an organization building AI tools for artists. They were awarded the 2022 Ars Electronica STARTS prize for digital art for the Holly+ project. She has been on Art Review’s Power 100 list since 2021 and holds a Ph.D in Computer Music from Stanford. They publish their studio research openly through the Interdependence podcast, and their critically acclaimed musical works are released through 4AD and RVNG Intl.

Hugo is a London-based Designer Advocate at Figma who has spent the last two decades finding new ways to yap: in Spanish and Portuguese first, French in the background, and visually across photo editing, freelance graphic design, business analysis at Phaidon, and design systems at Burberry. The through-line, he'd argue, is communication itself — verbal or visual, how something gets across has always been the interesting one. He also collects photo and design books at a rate his shelves won't tolerate; the most recent arrival is a zine cataloguing British crisp packets of the 80s and 90s.

Iris is a product designer at Figma, focusing on tools that empower designers to ship code.

Isaac has been a software engineer at Figma since 2020. He's helped build Figma's multiplayer collaboration system, speed-up file load times, launch AI-based semantic search, and revamp the infrastructure powering design systems. When he's not busy optimizing Figma performance, you might find Isaac on the volleyball court or in a local community theater production!

Jason Calleiro is a Product Designer at Figma, where he works on AI powered creation tools for moving from idea to interface faster. Previously, he designed products at Meta, Atlassian, Brex, and Dropbox. He’s especially interested in how AI can help designers think, make, and share ideas with more speed, taste, and control.

Jayse Hansen is a design director behind some of the most recognizable interfaces in modern cinema.

He has created iconic on-screen systems, from HUDds to holograms, for more than 20 blockbuster film franchises, including Tron, Iron Man, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, and Top Gun.

He is also co-founder of ØFFGRID, which leads next-generation spatial interface design for complex AI systems across full command centers, fighter jets, and armored vehicles.

Jenny embraces an entrepreneurial spirit, leading with empathy and driving innovation from within. Over 17 years at Epsilon, she has progressed from UX/UI designer to leading Epsilon's Product UX QA practice, gaining deep knowledge of the entire portfolio. She is passionate about ensuring groundbreaking technology is matched by flawless, inclusive design. Jenny builds high-performing teams and fosters a collaborative culture, proactively identifying opportunities to help Epsilon deliver meaningful, personalized experiences for millions through cutting-edge technology and human-centered design.

Jenny Xie is a writer and editor at Figma and the author of the novel Holding Pattern. Her work has appeared in places like The Atlantic, Esquire, and Dwell, where she was previously the Executive Editor.

Jessica is co-founder of Ditto, a Y Combinator-backed startup that manages product copy, from draft to deploy. Before founding Ditto, she worked as both a product designer and software engineer at companies ranging from Google to early-stage startups, giving her a unique perspective on the intersection of design and development. She studied Product Design and Computer Science at Stanford, where she earned her BS and MS and was a Mayfield Fellow. When she's not working on Ditto, you'll find her practicing yoga, at the pottery wheel, or spending time with her dog, Rusty.

Jinen leads product for Figma's collaboration tools which includes FigJam, Slides, and a few new things cooking. Previously, he was Co-founder and CPO at Gather (acquired by Figma), and held product leadership roles at Twitter, BuzzFeed, Modern Health, and more. He's motivated by building tools that help people connect and build in new ways, making life and work feel more pleasant, productive, and fun.

Johannes Mutter is a design-engineer at Lake Constance, Germany, who tends to get deeply absorbed in things. He’s been quietly collecting interfaces for 15 years — every interaction that made him wonder who made this, and why. That became “Interface Lineage.”

He freelances, though the rabbit holes tend to win: tools for thought, block-based web editing… Johannes studied Global Innovation Design at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. He lives with his wife Yejeong, a creativity researcher, and two little boys who keep reminding him how much you learn by taking things apart.

Jolena Ma is the co-founder of Ditto, a tool for teams to manage their product copy from design to development. Before Ditto, she worked as a software engineer and product manager at places like Asana, Instagram, and Crunchbase, where she saw firsthand how important words are to the product experience—and how quickly they become fragmented across teams and tools. She co-founded Ditto to solve that problem, and has since helped hundreds of teams—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—build content systems that scale.

Josh McKenna is a London-based illustrator known for a playful, tongue-in-cheek approach to character and form. With over a decade of experience, his work spans global platforms — from the iconic 2017 Instagram Pride Sticker to editorial commissions for Wired and The Wall Street Journal. His practice moves between digital products and physical spaces, including murals for Facebook, Hewlett Packard and four-meter-high floats for Sydney Mardi Gras. Currently, Josh is using Figma Draw as a bridge to evolve his 2D illustrations into 3D forms.

Justin co-founded Bitovi in 2008 with his college buddy Brian Moschel. Since then, he’s been obsessed with perfecting application design, development, and delivery. He lives in Chicago with his wife and three kids.

As a writer of autobiographical blurbs, he knows to use his hobbies like running, playing guitar, and reading history to make him appear more human. But is he really???

Jésabel DC is a tech anthropologist reimagining our relationship with technology. Her work revives the early-2000s spirit of playful, human tech to inspire people to design calmer, more nervous-system-friendly tools. She’s building The Lifestyle Lab, a low-tech video game that teaches life skills through nostalgic, non-addictive game mechanics – proving that the future is, in fact: low-tech.

Ken Vreman is a Senior Design Advocate who has worked agency side, in-house, and ran his own company before realising the common thread was always chasing whatever was new in design.

That chase led him down a deep AI rabbit hole, and eventually to joining the Figma Weave crew, where he helps companies and designers figure out what AI can do for them.

Along the way he's made video tutorials and hosted a bunch of community events where designers could get their hands dirty together.

Kim is a Product Manager at OpenAI focusing on the ChatGPT Desktop experience. She was formerly the co-founder of Software Applications Incorporated, makers of Sky. She spent 10 years at Apple and loves to collecting absurd hypotheticals that can save a boring dinner party.

Kristen Bates is an Education Content Strategist at Figma, dedicated to making product education engaging and interactive. When she's not designing learning experiences, you'll find her channeling that same creative energy into native plant gardening and fiber arts.

Laura leads the Education Content Strategy team at Figma. When not thinking about content, she enjoys seeing Broadway shows, exploring new restaurants, and binging reality TV.

Laura bends design systems, materials, and sometimes herself—often upside down—with a camera in one hand and curiosity in the other. Fueled by craft, half coffee, half protein bar, and a full-time obsession with creating, collecting, and doing it all over again (but better).

Lauren Hom is a designer, lettering artist, muralist, and chef. An "artist with a business brain," she’s best known for turning her clever passion projects into a creative career thanks to the power of the internet. Over the past decade, Lauren has created colorful work for clients like Vans, Target, Google, and Pinterest. Always hungry for more, Lauren recently attended culinary school to expand her skill set and now spends her days designing for clients, speaking at events, and gathering fellow creatives for workshops and dinner parties.

Lauren LoPrete is Head of Design Foundations at Mercury and has spent the past eight years leading teams at Expedia, Dropbox, and Block. She comes from a multi-disciplinary background in exhibition design and book design before finding her way to design systems. She's known for being honest about the emotional toll of this work, including giving talks about burnout and why systems act like a mirror to the organizations they serve. When she's not thinking about tokens or stewardship models, she's probably trying to convince someone that design systems are about people, not just components.

Lauren Madura leads Product Design at Dscout, where she and her team are rethinking how modern product teams gather and use customer insight. They design tools that help researchers and designers capture real experiences and turn them into meaningful decisions. Her work explores how AI is reshaping the way teams analyze research, uncover patterns, and bring human understanding into the design process.

Lawrence is a Product TPM at Figma, where he was the first TPM hire. He often ponders how to help builders build better, and gravitates towards behind-the-scenes glue work that keeps programs and product organizations thrumming. His work at Figma spans org-wide planning processes to Config launch readiness, and he's a co-creator of PM OS, an internal agent harness for product managers.

Lex is a product and innovation strategist who thrives at the intersection of design, business, and technology. Over the past decade, she's led cross-industry teams—spanning FinTech, digital health, consumer, and beauty—to translate complex problems into high-growth product opportunities and market-defining experiences.

Luca Damasco is a software engineering manager at Figma, supporting the Expressive Design area and Interaction Design team. He likes building approachable tools that help people bring ideas to life through prototyping and interactivity. Prior to Figma, Luca co-created Wick Editor, a free and open-source tool for building animations, games, and interactive doo-hickeys, while teaching creative coding.

Luis is a designer and writer who dreams in components. He works as a designer advocate at Figma, obsessed with educating and enabling designers across the world with resources and training.

Luke Fiorante is a Design Engineer specializing in building human-centered, context-aware solutions at the intersection of design, technology, and systems thinking. His technical background includes software engineering roles at Google (Android, Gmail, Wallet), as well as complex data visualization and simulation work for autonomous vehicles at Waymo and the Mars Perseverance rover at NASA JPL. He holds a Master in Design Engineering from Harvard University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from Brown University.

Mallory is a Designer Advocate at Figma by day, and a Pilates instructor by early morning. She works at the intersection of design, education, and community. Based in Charleston, SC, she's the kind of person who will absolutely talk to you about AI, activewear trends, and astrology all within the same conversation.

Manish is a developer advocate at Figma who builds bridges between code and creativity — and occasionally sets them on fire.
He spent over a decade at Reliance as a technical architect, building multi-brand, multi-platform design systems for products used by more than a billion people across India. Before that, he wore the UX designer hat long enough to develop strong opinions about both pixels and pull requests. He's one of the rare humans fluent in both design and engineering — equally comfortable debating token naming conventions and reviewing a component API.

Matt D. Smith (MDS) is the founder of Shift Nudge, modern design training for interface designers and AI-native builders. Matt has trained thousands of designers worldwide, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Figma, Google, and Pentagram, to develop the visual judgment AI can't replicate. He created the Float Label pattern and built the Figma plugins Use Contrast and Flowkit. He developed FloatPrompt, a text format that turns AI suggestions into AI specifications. He lives in Athens, GA with his wife, four kids, and two dogs.

Matt is a DC-based Product Design Lead with a focus on designing for an increasingly diverse and connected world. He's passionate about user-centric and accessible design, as well as addressing disparity and inequality in tech. Outside of pushing pixels, his passions lie in cluttered bookstores, 20th century history, and any large body of water.

Matt is a designer and strategist at mu.design, helping early-stage and high-growth companies in AI, fintech, and consumer software. He's also an editor for the W3C Design Tokens Community Group, where he contributes to emerging web standards. He's previously led teams at Copilot Money, Stripe, and a number of early-stage startups. Matt brings a strategic, systems-oriented approach to product design—whether building design systems from scratch, aligning product strategy, or translating complex technical domains into intuitive user experiences.

Megan Bednarczyk is a product design manager and design lead for Figma’s collaboration tools, including FigJam and Slides. Before Figma, she designed products at Duolingo, Geneva (now Bumble BFF) and more. Those experiences shaped her interest in turning early ideas into products that help people connect, collaborate and learn together. She’s spoken at Design Matters, Singapore Design Week and Config. This year, she’s excited to return to the Config stage as a host!

Megan is a Senior Design Lead at Greenlight, where she creates digital experiences that help families raise financially confident kids. Previously at Blink, she built a strong foundation in human-centered design, delivering thoughtful, user-driven solutions across a diverse range of products and clients. With a multidisciplinary background spanning UX, visual design, branding, interior design, and architecture, Megan approaches digital work with a spatial designer's mindset. This perspective informs her ability to craft immersive, personal, and intuitive experiences.

Mehmet Aydın Baytaş is a designer and engineer, who builds websites and brand identity systems. He looks after the website of London-based CRM startup Attio. Formerly an academic with PhD in human-computer interaction design, Baytaş has authored 30+ peer-reviewed publications with 500+ citations, and raised $5M+ for research on emerging user interface technologies. Since 2021, he hosts the Design Discipline podcast and publications as an independent design research project.

Michael is Dscout’s CEO & founder. A designer by training, he's pioneered innovative products that bring human insights into the way teams build what’s next. That vision started with Dscout's diary product and continues to this day. Dscout's suite of AI-native tools empowers teams with the high-fidelity feedback they need to build with conviction in this era of rapid change. Prior to founding Dscout, Michael worked at the intersection of design, technology, and product development at Gravitytank (now part of Salesforce), Wired and tech startups.

Michel Ferreira is a Brazilian designer with almost three decades of experience building design systems and leading teams across five countries. He has worked with global companies including Shopify, Booking.com, and Atlassian, and now serves as a Designer Advocate at Figma in Sydney.

Miggi is a designer advocate at Figma. In a past life hes been a design professor at RIT, and worked at various startups.

With over 15 years of experience in digital design, Mike creates visually compelling and interactive experiences that engage users and exceed expectations. His passion for visual design, interactive art, and game design drives his commitment to crafting memorable virtual encounters. He currently leads the UI design practice on Epsilon's internal design systems team, helping craft visual experiences for the company's product offerings. Mike has a background in leading design and creative direction for web applications, interactive digital experiences, games, and front-end development.

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!

Moran is a creative workflow advocate at Figma Weave, with a background in production across gaming, art, creative, and marketing.

Moby is a Staff Product Designer from Nigeria living in Hong Kong. He's most passionate about productivity, digital note-taking, and handwriting. He's spent the last 3 years working on Goodnotes Classroom, a brand new product from the award winning iPad app, Goodnotes. He combines 0-1 innovation, craft and design to bring his ideas to life.

Ned Dwyer is the Co-founder and CEO of Great Question, the all-in-one UX research platform trusted by teams at Amazon, ServiceNow and Brex, among other leading enterprises. A multiple-exit founder with 10+ years at the intersection of product, design, and research, Ned is leading Great Question's AI-native transformation—putting research tools that once required a PhD into the hands of every designer and PM building products today.

He's an alumnus of Y Combinator and is based in Oakland, California.

Nicole is the Co-founder and Chief Designer for Let’s Jetty. With a background in strategy, she’s developed brand identities and scalable design frameworks for consumer brands. In 2023, she co-founded Let’s Jetty taking the company from 0-1 with $0 marketing spend. Her work centers on making design a strategic advantage for early-stage startups and helping mature brands break free from overly prescriptive systems to rediscover creative flexibility.

Nikolas Klein is a product designer turned product manager. He’s been working at Figma since 2018, and has always been focused on getting more people to explore their interactive ideas together. He is now a PM on Figma Make.

Noah is a product engineer living in San Francisco. During his time at Figma, he helped build Figma Slides for Config 2024, building out the grid and the carousel, bringing design systems supports, and recently supporting the Slides MCP. He's also worked on FigJam, FigPals, and many other prototypes and explorations. On the side, he's built a variety of side projects such as the semi-viral sftransit.fun transit personality quiz.

Patrick is a Senior Motion Designer at Microsoft and a self-taught animator with more than 15 years in video production and motion design. He blends technology and storytelling to make complex ideas feel clear and approachable. A lifelong tinkerer, he is always exploring new ways to connect motion, design, and code. His work is focused on making complex processes feel less intimidating and building creative tools people can actually use.

Piers heads up engineering for Figma’s Expressive Design area and is part engineer, part designer and part creative technologist. Previously he was co-founder and CTO at Modyfi, a new design platform built from the ground up for multidisciplinary brand, visual and marketing designers. In April 2025 Modyfi joined the team at Figma, where he’s now building the future of creative tooling.

In his spare time he makes mobiles and kinetic sculptures under the name Casa Assembly, and digital art under the name Oops Caps. He's obsessed with broccoli.

Prayag Narula is the Co-Founder and CEO of HeyMarvin, an AI-native customer insights platform that helps teams turn scattered research into decisions.

Before HeyMarvin, Prayag co-founded and led LeadGenius. He was a researcher at the University of Helsinki, studied at the UC Berkeley School of Information, and has published more than a dozen papers across HCI, user-centered design, AI, and crowdsourcing.

Rachel is the Engineering Director for Figma's Design Systems area, which builds both Figma's internal design system and new design systems features in the product. Rachel loves thinking about how people shape what they build - through feelings, shared joy, and sweating the details.

Rachel Platt is an Education Designer at Figma. She combines her passion for education with experience in AI-forward product design and development workflows to craft engaging, real-world learning experiences. Outside of work, she enjoys applying her love of learning to every creative hobby under the sun, especially painting, knitting, and sewing.

Designer & software engineer with a passion for simplicity. Former designer of Figma, Spotify and engineer at early Facebook.

Riccardo Erra is a Developer Advocate at Figma working at the intersection of engineering, design systems, and AI-assisted product development, helping teams build more reliable ways to move from design intent to production code.

Rodrigo is a product manager at Figma, leading the Agents group. Previously he led AI product management at Asana, and was a product manager at Strava.

Rody Davis is a Senior Developer Relations Lead at Google, where he drives cross-functional initiatives to unify AI capabilities across the Google ecosystem. Focused on the evolution of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Rody helps lead the developer strategy for Antigravity, Gemini, and Firebase Studio. A veteran of the Flutter and Firebase teams, Rody specializes in the convergence of Google Cloud’s high-scale AI and localized, on-device intelligence, ensuring developers can build performant, private, and scalable software.

Rogie is an artist, designer, and programmer at Figma, driven by connecting the design community to the product. He started as a Designer Advocate, amplifying the voices of designers worldwide. He's since moved into Product Design, dreaming up tech to empower designers to create far beyond what he could alone. Raised on animation, horror films, and the golden age of Flash websites, he has a lasting obsession with unique experiences and modern web tech—and a mission to make design fun again through illustration, better design tools, and rad visuals.

Ron Baranov is a Creative Workflow Advocate and an award-winning AI filmmaker with tons of experience in video production. At Figma Weave, he works with leading brands to build custom AI workflows that give creative teams more control over their craft while helping them automate and scale creative production.

Rory Flynn is the founder of Systematiq Ai, where he builds automated AI-driven creative production systems for brands like Meta, SharkNinja, Marshall, and BarkBox: product photography, lifestyle imagery, asset localization, ecommerce content, 3D/VFX, etc. He designs and implements workflows that turn generative AI into operational infrastructure teams can run efficiently, at scale. Think one operator, thousands of outputs. With a background in e-commerce performance and retention marketing, scale is always at a premium.

Rose McManus is a Brooklyn-based designer and writer specializing in design systems. She joined Meta’s design team in 2018 after studying journalism, and in 2021 became the sole member of Instagram’s Design Systems team who focuses on language, accessibility and localization. Today she solves design problems affecting all 3 billion users, shaping concepts, components and the invisible architecture of the app. She is a published journalist and has spoken at design conferences. Her work is guided by the belief that craft and precision exist in service of the complexities that make us human.

Ryan Powell is the Head of Design at Waymo, where he’s spent a decade defining the UX for autonomous driving. Ryan leads a multi-disciplinary team of designers and researchers focused on a unique challenge: building human trust in a driverless world. From mobile apps to in-vehicle interfaces and hardware sensors, he ensures every touchpoint feels safe and intuitive. With a 20-year career taking products from 0 to 1, Ryan specializes in scaling high-performing teams and transforming complex emerging tech into delightful experiences that have a real impact on people’s lives.

Sam Thorne is Senior Principal for Creative Technology at Electrolux, helping drive the company's mission to shape living for the better through the future of home appliances. With a degree in Interaction Design and an MSc in Cognitive Science, he brings together design and engineering to create better experiences. Having worked at Sony Electronics, Spotify, and with clients such as HP and Audi, Sam has a wide range of experience building the user experience for devices outside of the mobile and web sphere.

Dr. Setor Zilevu is a Researcher at Figma focused on AI evaluation and human-centered research. He earned his PhD from Virginia Tech, where he developed the Z-Framework for human-computer interaction in complex machine learning systems. He built one of the first cyber-human systems for stroke survivors, deployed at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. A 2022 MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35, he keynotes globally on human-centered AI.

Shauna Sapper is a software engineer at Notion who has had her hands on almost every button in the app. She started by turning monetization surfaces into reusable components that helped engineers move faster and stay consistent, and now she brings that same care to Notion’s design system. Shauna inspires whimsy at work and can be found telling everyone about the bird outside or knitting between ideas.

Sirinda (Kaew) Limsong is a Product Designer with experience in digital consultancy, crafting solutions across industries including finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and entertainment. Her passion lies in creating digital experiences that seamlessly bridge user needs with human-centered innovation, solving complex challenges while driving meaningful impact. She holds a Master in Design Engineering from Harvard University and a Bachelor in Industrial Design from Chulalongkorn University.

Socrates is the Co-founder and design lead of Quintessential, a tech & design studio in Athens, Greece, specializing in delivering impactful digital products across various sectors such as fintech, healthcare, security, e-mobility, and retail.

Socrates is responsible for building and scaling the studio from the ground up, a studio now serving clients in North America, Europe & Asia.

At Quintessential, he leads brand vision & product design.

Socrates is also the Friends of Figma Athens User Group leader, helping the design and tech community grow through knowledge sharing.

Switch Angel x LO.FI.SCI.FI is the collaborative audiovisual project of Boston-based new media artists and software engineers Jade Rose and Jame Coyne. Rose, a core contributor and maintainer of Strudel, a web-based live coding environment inspired by Tidal Cycles, channels that expertise into high-energy, often fully improvised electronic dance music. Coyne crafts an immersive visual language through shader code and handbuilt software, drawing inspiration from hacker culture past and present. Since 2022, the duo has fused electronic music, live coding, and multimedia installation into an unrelenting presence at clubs and art events worldwide.

Tamara Chu is a design engineer at Notion and previously worked at Eventbrite and Metalab. She remembers when the term "living styleguide" was all the rage, and wonders if sufficient time has passed for it to come back in vogue. She also volunteers at an arts and education non-profit called Problem Library in San Francisco's Inner Sunset, and is otherwise on the move (tai chi, dance, fidgeting at her desk).

Tammy Taabassum is a product designer at Figma, working on the Figma Design Agent, a purpose-built AI collaborator that lives directly on the canvas. She's focused on how AI can power the product workflows of the future, especially as traditional roles continue to blur, without sacrificing control or craft. Before Figma, Tammy co-founded Instok.

Tommy Geoco is a designer and media founder who bridges data, tools, and storytelling in the design industry. He runs UX Tools, the leading annual survey and newsletter used by tens of thousands of designers to understand the evolving tool landscape, and Internet Enjoyers™, a creative studio producing documentaries and podcasts about modern design teams. His work connects industry insight with narrative craft helping designers, founders, and teams see how technology and taste shape the future of design.

An adman who became a product designer who became a storyteller, Unni Krishnan leads the Digital Experience Studio at Ather Energy. With over 15 years of experience spanning wearables, digital wallets, and smart electric scooters, he has been shaping how technology and emotion meet through design. His work blends Culture, Strategy, and Experimentation to turn everyday moments into magical experiences.

Vicki Tan is a Taiwanese-American designer, based in San Francisco. Her work explores the relationship between behavioral science and product design, with a special interest in how people engage with technology in their daily lives. She has worked at Pinterest, Spotify, Headspace, Lyft, and Google.

Wendy, former Head of Chinese at UWC South East Asia and Head of Integrated Studies and Digital Innovation at Chinese International School Hong Kong, is a dedicated educator who integrates technology into teaching. As an Apple Distinguished Educator, she leverages Apple tools to foster creativity, critical thinking, and engagement in student learning.

Will Hobick is a design engineer and product leader exploring how AI is changing the way teams design, build, and ship. He currently leads Design Engineering at Rocket, powering products used by 1 in 6 homeowners in the US. Previously, he led product for DreamFlow, the first text-to-app builder for Flutter, and held early growth and design roles at FlutterFlow, the leading Flutter app development platform. Will advises startups across AI and developer tooling and is interested in what defines great product teams in the AI era: taste, judgment, and an obsession with impact over output.

Willie King is a Business Development Manager at T-Mobile, working at the intersection of technology, strategy, and real-world needs. His background across product and project work helps him turn ideas into practical solutions. As a person living with a disability, Willie brings a personal perspective to accessibility and inclusion. That experience shapes how he approaches partnerships and problem-solving. Right now, Willie is focused on building solutions that are effective and genuinely usable for everyone.

Yassir is a Software Engineering Manager at Figma, where he leads a team working on the rendering platform that turns data into the pixels you see on the canvas. He's spent his career in graphics — Video Playback, Camera Algorithms, shaders, and the performance work nobody notices when it's done right — happiest a layer or two below the surface where rendering and craft meet. Outside of work, that same love of craft goes into photography, music production, and DJing!

Zach Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator who wants to surprise you. He creates performances and installations that turn human gesture into art—bringing drawings to life, visualizing the voice, and transforming silhouettes into music. His awards include Ars Electronica's Golden Nica, Design Museum London's Interactive Design of the Year, and recognition from Fast Company and Time. He co-created openFrameworks, co-founded the School for Poetic Computation, leads the Future Sketches group at MIT Media Lab, and is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International).