"Design vs code" is a false dichotomy.
What we're working towards at Figma: freeform design AND prototyping with code AND shipping to production
... all in one connected, collaborative and visual first platform.
People really underestimate how much work and practice are required to get good at something. A truckload of work over a long period of time is the price of competence.
Details matter.
The cursor is a light source
Hover the headphones, the shadow elevates
Drift to the stickers, the headphone shadow shifts and fades because the torch moved away
Physics > pixels
Small things do a big difference in achieving realism
Having loser mentality is an insult to God because you were handed a singular unrepeatable flame of consciousness as a specific individual with specific gifts and chose to let it gutter out in self-pity. Feeling small is more ingratitude than humility
The creator doesn’t make surplus people. The fact that the egg chooses the sperm means every cell in your body proliferated from a messianic selection. The loser mentality is on every level, (biologically, metaphysically, theologically, etc.) against the verdict of life