Dylan Field

eliminate the gap between imagination and reality

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CUSTOM SHADERS BUILT WITH THE FIGMA AGENT

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🤔

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

MCP for thee, but not for me…

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@mrblackstudio Sending you, your mum and your family all the love ♥️

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@builtwbrendan 😍

[Figma @figma]

Meet your one click wonder

Select an object to isolate or erase it with Figma’s AI image editing tools.

Available now on the macOS desktop app.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Thanks, @neilrenicker ! Our post-trained models are powering more and more of this work. It’s exciting to see how post training + evals created by experts can compete with frontier models on design tasks. Lots ahead here and the team is doing great work!

[Neil Renicker @neilrenicker]

The @figma agent has gotten really good at doing Figma-specific stuff:

- turning things into components and then deploying the component across a bunch of artboards
- moving artboards around, renaming and numbering artboards for human consumption
- applying tokens and text styles across dozens of artboards and hundreds of layers
- has gotten noticeably quicker and more successful over past couple months

Really enjoying, terrific work team. Allows me to focus at exactly the right level of abstraction.

[Figma @figma]

Turn an idea into vectors you can riff on with Figma agent

→ Fully organized and grouped layers
→ Editable strokes
→ Ready for animation with Figma Motion

[Dylan Field @zoink]

$FIG Q3 results:

→ $391M in revenue, 43% YoY growth rate and $16M above high-end of prior guidance
→ 131% net dollar retention rate
→ 36% YoY growth in non-GAAP gross profit
→ $1.7B in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities
→ Raising our outlook for FY 2026

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@andyisonline How would you define the logic for when to default it on? Not everyone has the desktop app, and many users who have the desktop app still prefer the browser.

[charlota @0xCharlota]

Hot take: AI made the canvas more important, not less.

i see a lot of designers skipping design tools and going straight to code, asking why anyone would still need an infinite canvas.

i recently built a small web app (Hue Scream) and leaned on AI for a lot of the code. it made me appreciate the canvas more, not less.

To me, the canvas is a big table. It’s where I:
– spread out inspiration and references
– make quick, rough sketches
– put variations side by side
– leave notes for myself
– go back and pick up a variant I dropped three days ago
– tweak and polish vibecoded prototypes
- invite others to collab and review

design is non-linear. you jump between ideas, compare them, backtrack, and combine two half-ideas into one good one.

most vibe-coding tools and AI chat interfaces force you into a straight line: prompt, output, prompt, output. they aren't at all collaborative. they don't feel like a space you could invite someone to.

[Noah Levin @nlevin]

Code Layers is a blast. Bring your code-backed prototypes right onto the canvas to collaborate and riff with your team. Give it a spin!

We've been using it a bunch internally (to build Figma in Figma) and it's made AI prototyping so much more fun

Lots more to come here

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@JesperBylund https://t.co/qPeE3Jlg7q

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@BexelInitiative If you read the article that’s just where we started. Obviously the model is like decades old in AI time at this point

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You would be shocked if I told you the things we made Llama 3.3 70B do.

[Figma @figma]

https://t.co/WXnarwHcT8

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@sambharia @figma https://t.co/TJBpltrsql

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@BexelInitiative If you read the article that’s just where we started. Obviously the model is like decades old in AI time at this point

[Dylan Field @zoink]

@BexelInitiative If you read the article that’s just where we started. Obviously the model is like decades old in AI time at this point

[Dylan Field @zoink]

@kraigdesigns @figma Glad you like it! We use both Specs and Notion at Figma... they serve very different use cases for us.

[Ali Zahid @alizhd]

Giving a shit is a moat. Not throwing slop grenades in your app at your customers is a moat. Human customer service with care and empathy is a moat. Just giving a shit is such a moat today.

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@martinsit @ericzxchen @figma already RT'd!

[eric @ericzxchen]

We built a CPU in @Figma to run Figma in Figma.

CC @zoink

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This post isn’t design… it’s art

[Wes @WesleyBancroft]

I don’t use Figma anymore.

For the past six months I’ve been uploading my consciousness directly into the ether and allowing the work to manifest through minor disturbances in the electromagnetic field. You think you are seeing the aurora borealis that's actually my brain waves.

It’s a much more intuitive process. I sit completely still in my office until a founder somewhere develops a sudden inspiration for their brand positioning but in reality it was me clipping them in their brain stem, smiling down on them like one of God's children.

People keep asking what tools I’m using. I understand the question. I used to think that way too. But asking me what tools I use is like asking a glass of water what software is wetness. Its a meaningless question.

I don’t design anymore. I am the pixels. I am the logo. I am the little bit of space between the 'r' and the 'n' that you better make sure is kerned properly. When you increase the font size I experience physical growth. When you cut a vector point, my consciousness goes into quantum superposition.

This is where the industry is going. If you're not on board, you're going to get left behind.

My entire design system now lives in the collective unconscious. There’s no documentation. Your team will simply wake up knowing the button radius. If someone uses the wrong shade of blue they’ll hear a high pitched ringing sound until they correct it.

Developer handoff has been so smooth since I started working this way. My effigy appears at the foot of the engineer’s bed and I open my mouth. The CSS comes out at a frequency only their fillings can receive. We’ve eliminated all meetings.

I no longer send clients presentations. I enter their dreams as a white horse with an already complete interactive brand guidelines. They’re free to leave feedback by speaking into a bowl of room temperature water. I receive it immediately and disagree with it on a cellular level. Transcending this outdated material plane is my standing Tuesday meeting.

Some people are uncomfortable with this. A procurement manager recently asked whether I could provide an SVG of the logo and I just told her to close her eyes and remember the first time she felt truly understood. She looked annoyed and just said their print vendor needed an SVG by today.

A big adjustment has been personal. My wife asked if I could help bring in the groceries. I explained that I now exist simultaneously across every customer touchpoint.

I think there’s a lot of fear right now about what happens when designers stop needing tools. But the people who adapt will be fine. You just have to be willing to let go of a few outdated ideas. Like having a body. Being legally distinguishable from a gradient.

Anyway I am open for new branding projects this quarter.