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Rethinking how real-time collaboration works in real life, Figma is tapping into what makes its internal teams and the broader creative community really tick.
Over the past two months, we’ve rolled out a number of updates to comments in Figma. As always, insights about our users and how they design together informed these improvements. The data science team spearheaded experiments to learn how to encourage feedback and collaboration directly in the file. Here, Data Scientist Emily Jia shares the hypotheses, tests, and learnings that lead to this cross-functional, data-driven product launch.
Software Engineers Rudi Chen and Slava Kim share an inside look at how we empower engineers to build real-time data views, while abstracting the complexity of pushing data back and forth.
Last year, the Figma security team built a simple solution for zero-trust shell access on AWS. To do this, they leveraged AWS SSO and Systems Manager, an umbrella of services that provide monitoring and remote administration capabilities over various AWS resources. In this post, Security Engineer Hongyi Hu explains how the team designed the system and shares some tips to help other teams secure Systems Manager and protect their most sensitive data.
Over the last few months, the Figma security team has been hard at work building a system for employees to securely access our internal applications. Security Engineer Max Burkhardt is excited to share how certain components in this system can help teams across the industry protect their most sensitive internal apps. In the blog post, Max dives into how his team built the system, lessons learned, and how this fits into our broader approach to security at Figma.
Every year Forbes releases The Cloud 100—a list of the world’s top private cloud companies. We are excited and humbled to be included in the list, taking our place as #7. Alex Konrad goes deep in his article explaining Figma’s evolution from a meme generation tool to what Forbes calls “design’s hottest startup.” The road to get here hasn’t always been easy, from early rejection to technical challenges. But through it all, one thing has stayed the same: our mission to bring design into the digital world..."as Google Docs did for word processing and GitHub for code, so Figma is doing for design.”
Clancy Slack, Data Scientist and lead of the Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Figma, shares what Pride month means to him, how we’re participating at Figma, and a call to designers, artists, and makers to create Pride posters in Figma.
Maker Week is a time for Figmates across teams to explore projects outside of their day-to-day work. In this post, we’re sharing more on the origins of this Figma tradition and reflecting on some of our favorite Maker Week moments.
