Russ

People Listener, Trend Watcher, Customer Experience, Digital Product Design, CCXP

[Karl @_kejk]

https://t.co/zZQvdjfC1O

[miggi from figma @miggi]

A thread of @figma agent prompt examples / screen recordings I helped bring to life to get you started on automations (with 🎵 made on my OP-XY): 🧵

1.) Explore design directions
Prompt: Give me 3 style options for this design, one that's organic, one modern, and one retro.

[Russ @rhops]

Be the elephant you wish to see in the room

[Teddy Riker @teddy_riker]

https://t.co/dyiVwtFQNJ

[Russ @rhops]

I have been thinking a lot about experience design process and which of our current methods and tools need to be reconsidered given the state of AI powered tools. If I think about the simplest version what we do, it is the double diamond process that everyone is familiar with:

Diamond 1: Build the right thing.
Diamond 2: Build it right.

In 2026, Diamond 2 is being rapidly commoditized. It is not as hard as it once was to "build it right". It can be done faster, cheaper, and more iteratively than ever before. Failing faster could be a viable option for figuring out what is the right thing because you can produce working software quickly for testing with users. In my career, I have worked at many places who wanted to take this approach and learn quickly, but everyone struggles with being ok with shipping experiences that might fail and iterating when it does. So Diamond 2 is likely not the place that large organizations will learn what is "the right thing." That means the value shifts upstream — to Diamond 1.

It means that the skills that have always mattered as you diverge and discover the problem space and converge and define the solutions are what will matter going forward:
-empathy and user research - understanding what people feel and need
-taste and judgement - know what good looks like
-driving clarity on business strategy and resulting requirements
-building alignment - everyone still needs to be onboard
-data analysis and experience mapping - create clear understanding of the current and desired state experience
-ability to articulate this desired state experience and create a narrative
-comfort with ambiguity — the fuzzy front end doesn't have clean answers and that's the point

The toolset for discovery is also changing rapidly, but that is a post for another time.

hashtag#DesignLeadership hashtag#ProductDesign hashtag#DesignOps hashtag#UXDesign

Shout out to @natebjones , @lennysan and @jenny_wen for the inspiration on this topic.

[Russ @rhops]

Have any design leaders move their org from a Figma Org level seat to Enterprise level seat? Curious if the new features outweigh the costs?

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Abraham John 🦄🦓 @Abmankendrick]

Designers, this Airbnb Design System might be the best ever created in 2025 ✨

Absolutely Sleek 🔥

[Figma @figma]

Happy Schema by Figma day. A recap of our announcements (roll out dates may vary)

→ Extended Collections
→ Slots
→ Check Designs
→ And a ton more

[Deedy @deedydas]

This 67 page AI report on how 300 execs at software startups like Cursor, ElevenLabs, Sierra (revenue $10m-$1b+) use AI just dropped.

I read it all so you don't have to. Top 7 takeaways:

OpenAI is still the #1 model provider in the enterprise, but Claude is second.

1/10

[Russ @rhops]

Top talks by YouTube views from #config2025
-Product launch Keynote - Figma CEO
-Designing Dystopia - Severance guy
-Deep dive on Figma draw
-Building the next computing platform
-The art of not naming your layers
-Wild West of collaborative brand design
-Crafting quality that endures
-Beyond agents - I as a a creative partner
-Story telling from a PM
-How top designers find their path and creativity of small groups

[Russ @rhops]

A northstar allows for the freedom of ideation and grace when course correction is needed - Dr Madelin Gannon #Config2025

[Figma @figma]

Did you catch them all? Here’s everything we announced at #Config2025

→ Figma Sites
→ CMS in Figma Sites (coming soon)
→ Grid
→ Figma Make
→ Figma Draw
→ Figma Buzz

[Russ @rhops]

@AMAZlNGNATURE It looks like their sun is broken.

[Russ @rhops]

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[Russ @rhops]

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[Russ @rhops]

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[Russ @rhops]

@Tazo Is there a decaf tea conspiracy yet to be uncovered or did Tazo discontinue the decaf chai spice tea bags? They have disappeared from every grocery store I have access to.

[Russ @rhops]

I listened for 54,144 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/NAJ7vrdJJw

[Felix Lee @felixleezd]

Airbnb on how to design a winning 10-star product (genius playbook).