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.
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.
