I'm just going to show you guys around here gosh there's a lot of people okay I'm at my
seat and they give us this nice donut I want to go to a cafe but I just underestimated
number of people that's here it's so popular
this is amazing to see everyone here and just wherever you are wherever you're coming from
thank you for being here with us so as you mentioned the last in-person config was February
6 2020.
the morning talks they're so interesting the morning talks are great but the audio quality
here is horrible so that's why I'm here doing some voice over Figma just launched variables
and it's going to make complex design projects so much easier during my work I always ran
into this trouble that whenever I design something in English and then want to translate into
German version everything breaks and it looks like variables can help to fix my problem
on prototyping variables can help us to get rid of those pasta lines when I see this picture
I literally laughed out loud because this is how my design file looks you know how you
always need to build so many other Pages just to make your prototype really work while using
variables you can get rid of 90 of these pasta lines which one is your favorite all right
I'm gonna do this one [Music]
I also went to Steve Johnson's talk and Steve is the VP of design at Netflix I can resonate
so much with his talk he said that design without business is decoration he talked about
five things that we designers can do to understand the business better first design for business
opportunities not engineering constraints second understanding your earning report and
financial goals third know who's on your board and what they value fourth know your competitor's
business goal and five be accountable for design goals which enable business outcomes
and now I have a surprise for you guys because I'm invited to a private tour to Figma headquarters
with other design content creators super happy to be here seeing everyone popping out from
the thumbnail the videos and the reels just feel unreal you mind if I crash of course
come here come here come here hello I want to introduce your channel just in case some
of them haven't followed you yet okay the mic is kind of here but you can speak to it
okay my YouTube channel name is Andres the designer subscribe subscribe I just love being
a part of whatever's new and where the designers go hi everyone my name is Christy um I just
graduated from undergrad two months ago oh congrats
so I'm now working at Google as a ux designer I live in Mountain View
nice to see you in a real person nice to meet you too
hi I'm Pablo Pablo Stanley in San Francisco and I was given the opportunity to become
a ux designer and I thought I knew it all you know because like that looks just like
a bunch of boxes you just connect arrows that seems easy then I soon realized that no I
did not know how to do that back in those days like medium started too and there were
a lot of stuff like about ux design or anything so I decided to start teaching about that
well if I'm going to teach it I have to learn first and also my English was horrible but
because I would get into these kinds of rooms and I will have to present stuff every Thursday
I remember I hated that because my accent you can still hear it back in those days it
was horrible people couldn't get past that so because of my accent because I wanted to
learn that's what I started like sketch together a little bit sentimental here don't record
that
I find it so interesting that each of us tells a story when we are trying to introduce ourselves
next I'm going to share with you a secret room in Figma headquarter that even Figma
employees seldomly have access to three years ago if you told me I'd be invited to visit
this secret room in Figma headquarters with other design content creators I would have
asked what content creator and what happened to sketch in fact three years ago was when
I decided to shift from computer science to ux design which turned out to be 10 times
harder than I thought I assume that after finishing the Google certificate I'd secure
job within weeks that didn't happen now with first-hand industry experience a strong personal
brand and collaborations with top HCI University programs Google certificates and numerous
ux bootcamps I know exactly what's missing from today's design education programs and
I also know what's outdated and unnecessary that is why I'm dedicating my full-time effort
to creating fast track to ux a four-week figma crash course this course is designed to help
you complete or iterate on a personal project so that you can use it to secure a client
project I like to offer a special discount during the pre-sale simply provide your email
via the link in the description this course my YouTube content and my future courses are
all designed with one goal in mind how do you get design in the board to equip my audience
to become the next generation of design leaders and I'm certain that the decisions you made
today will surprise the future you in three years perhaps leave you a little bit overwhelmed
but in a good way just like I am today
let me tell you about what happened at day two Noah Levin the VP of design figma talked
about Ai and design how figma is going to use AI in the future he said that AI will
raise the ceiling and lower the floor raising the ceiling makes that with AI we can create
something even more powerful than what we can do today by lowering the floor means more
people can do design without knowing too much about Figma you know ah the wind also figma
acquired diagram so if you don't know what's diagram you need to check out diagram and
I'm so excited that in the afternoon session Natalia she is a research scientist at MIT
media lab she talked about bring computer interface and guess what two years ago I did
a project on green computer interface it was a speculative design work and I knew that
spring computer interface would completely change ux design or interactive design forever
and it's going to be the next step after XR it's just so inspiring to see how much this
technology has already developed they already have technology without the chip you know
Elon Musk in Neurolink they do like a chip they insert a chip into monkey's brain they
no longer need to do it they just need to use a simple glasses it looks like a glasses
and it can read your brain signals what and then robot can already tell what you are thinking
mind-blowing also Michelle talked about XR this will be definitely super important for
us designer because Apple Vision Pro I like how she talked about one analogy there's an
experiment done before if you show a person a fake hand um but place it at the place where
it feels like it's their hand and then you stab a knife into it that person is going
to react as an analogy think about what happened in the XR world right like even though your
avatar is not real you can still react to it simply because it feels real so this tells
a lot about design ethics [Music]
here's some closing thought about Config just seeing these many designers gathered in one
place amazed me it kind of reminds me that there's so many of us out there you know all
right I'm walking back to my friend's place meanwhile I just want to say I'm very grateful
to be here [Music]
designers can run companies they can build things they can ship things and ultimately
you know when I joined Y Combinator Paul Graham said that make something people want well
who knows what people want as well as designers not many other people I think that is a core value
I will see you in the next video right here bye