Y Combinator President & CEO Garry Tan sits down with Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, to discuss the evolving world of design in the age of AI, the challenging early days of the company and how his team forever changed the way designers and engineers collaborate.
0:00 Intro
0:56 How does Dylan view AI changing design?
5:19 Are founders still not focused enough on design?
6:09 Evolution of models (image, codegen etc.)
10:48 What SOTA interfaces Dylan is seeing right now
13:24 How Figma was started
20:53 First prototype to V1
23:48 Figma’s first features
28:31 Countering the initial hate for the product
31:00 Design culture inside Figma
33:27 What to do after 0 to 1
35:25 What’s the future of Figma?
37:00 Outro