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10 things I learned after 10 years at Figma 1. Write your own playbook. Traditional B2B tactics don’t work with niche communities. You have to get to know your audience and start from scratch. 2. Growth happens one human connection at a time Unscalable, personal connections do create scalable advocacy. This is the way. 3. Learn to navigate your intuition You need to know when to trust your intuition -- when it isn’t strong and when you need to get help from others. 4. The case against metrics Me...

FS Charlie Munger once asked me: ‘How can someone give away fifty percent of profits and make billions more than if he’d kept it all?’ Before I could answer, he told me about Les Schwab, a tire shop owner who understood incentives better than almost anyone. What Schwab discovered will change how you think about business and life. Here are a few of his lessons: 1. Win Win, The Math of Generosity:Les discovered that splitting profits 50/50 with store managers didn’t cut his wealth in half, it mult...

Real-world case study: From Figma to Functional Code with AI Elie Majorel shares how he dropped traditional Figma prototyping for a faster AI-powered workflow: sketch flows in Miro, write prompts with Claude, and generate working React apps with Lovable — all in a few hours. It’s a real shift in product design: from static visuals to functional prototypes fast, without losing creative control. Full case study here

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[NEW] Conversation with Jony Ive (published 15h ago) Quote: "i always go back to being very clear that my state of mind and how i am in my practice ultimately is going to be embodied in the work. and so if I'm consumed with anxiety, that's how the work will end up... i think to be hopeful and optimistic and joyful in our practice and be that way in how we relate to each other and our colleagues, i actually think that's how the products will end up." "I realized ... that what we make stands testa...

У меня личный апдейт: я присоединился к Feeld’y лидировать продуктовый дизайн. Подробности на LinkedIn’e Если пользуетесь → можете написать в личку фидбэк на английском. Скоро буду искать себе в команду человека на web. Stay tuned на LinkedIn’e

The Joy of Doing We've been successfully removing all friction from our apps — think about how effortless it is to scroll through a social feed. But is that what we want? Compare the feeling of doomscrolling to kneading dough, playing an instrument, sketching... these take effort, but they're also deeply satisfying. When you strip away too much friction, meaning and satisfaction go with it. … We made painting feel like typing, but we should have made typing feel like painting. … Putting the you ...

"AI is like plastic" — Aras Bilgen I just attended the Rosenfeld Media Designing with AI 2025 conference. Among the many excellent speakers was Aras. His quote struck me. Here's the full text of what he said: "AI is like Plastics. On the surface, it grants us amazing powers and helps us create things that we haven’t before. It creates replicas of things that were previously artisanal without thinking about future implications. In doing that, it usually ingests copyrighted material and takes away...