JENNY WEN — Designer

JENNY WEN — Designer

JENNY WEN — Designer

I lead and manage the design team behind FigJam at Figma. I designed and brought FigJam to market, built out our early career hiring program, and hosted Config, our annual user conference.

I’m a weird, block-shaped designer. I’m good at taking a lot of disparate information and turning it into something that people just get.

December 2022

Design hiring fireside chat

For Figma's Early Career Week, I got to be on a panel with some stellar industry leaders. We chatted about how to stand out and get hired as an early career designer.

November 2022

Putting joy on the roadmap

A talk I did at CanUX in Ottawa, Canada. A battle cry to stop making boring things, to expect more from our internet, and to love what we do again.

November 2021

This or that

For the launch of widgets in FigJam, I fiddled around with the new widget API and made a little poll with just two choices. Perfect for this or that, yes or no, would you rather, and other divisive questions.

June 2020

Designing your design career

A talk for UW/UX (a club near and dear to my heart) on navigating early career opportunities and internships. I also shared my favourite goal setting framework, which you can try out, too.

November 2019

Word count

In the spirit of Figma's plugins launch, I dipped my toes into our plugin API. It was surprisingly easy to use and I ended up making this popular plugin. Really proud of myself for remembering how to do recursion, without looking it up.

November 2021

Word magnets

Turn any text in your FigJam or design file into a set of fridge magnets. Great for writers' block or a team poetry writing jam.

April 2021

Short stories from the making of FigJam

Config 2021 was honestly a really big moment for me! I hosted the first day of our annual user conference. I also did a talk with Emily Lin and Priya Kotak on how we made FigJam.

August 2022

"Make something" onboarding

An experiment we ran that had new users pick between four simple templates.

February 2022

Quality of life updates

Our first quality-of-life drop of the year! I worked on adding resizing to sticky notes, custom colors, and a wider set of font sizes. Still keeping a simple, opinionated set of defaults, but also allowing more powerful customization for those who need it.

November 2021

FigJam templates

No need to start from scratch anymore. I designed the end-to-end experience of templates — bringing our Community's best templates directly into the product.

February 2020

A beautiful mess

A Q&A talk I did with Lizhi Fan on the messiness of how design and engineering work together at Figma.

October 2019

Community and collaboration

My first launch at Figma! I worked closely with Rasmus Andersson on the first version of our Community, alongside a refresh of our file browser.

May 2021

Layout: Designing FigJam

Keeyen and I got to share a bit about the behind the scenes of FigJam with Kevin and Rafa.

April 2021

Introducing FigJam

I spent most of 2020 driving the direction, leading the design and executing on the details for the launch of FigJam.

September 2019

Open design

Baby's first real conference talk! At Design Matters in Copenhagen, I talked about collaboration, what it means for a company like Figma, and what I saw for the future of our industry.

November 2021

Word magnets

Turn any text in your FigJam or design file into a set of fridge magnets. Great for writers' block or a team poetry writing jam.

November 2021

Word magnets

Turn any text in your FigJam or design file into a set of fridge magnets. Great for writers' block or a team poetry writing jam.

May 2021

Layout: Designing FigJam

Keeyen and I got to share a bit about the behind the scenes of FigJam with Kevin and Rafa.

May 2021

Layout: Designing FigJam

Keeyen and I got to share a bit about the behind the scenes of FigJam with Kevin and Rafa.

April 2021

Introducing FigJam

I spent most of 2020 driving the direction, leading the design and executing on the details for the launch of FigJam.

April 2021

Introducing FigJam

I spent most of 2020 driving the direction, leading the design and executing on the details for the launch of FigJam.

April 2021

Short stories from the making of FigJam

Config 2021 was honestly a really big moment for me! I hosted the first day of our annual user conference. I also did a talk with Emily Lin and Priya Kotak on how we made FigJam.

April 2021

Short stories from the making of FigJam

Config 2021 was honestly a really big moment for me! I hosted the first day of our annual user conference. I also did a talk with Emily Lin and Priya Kotak on how we made FigJam.

September 2019

Open design

Baby's first real conference talk! At Design Matters in Copenhagen, I talked about collaboration, what it means for a company like Figma, and what I saw for the future of our industry.

September 2019

Open design

Baby's first real conference talk! At Design Matters in Copenhagen, I talked about collaboration, what it means for a company like Figma, and what I saw for the future of our industry.