Loredana Crisan - Figma's big bets for the future of AI design
About this episode
Loredana Crisan discusses Figma's vision for AI in design and the evolving identity of design.
This week we are going behind the scenes of Config 2026 with Loredana Crisan (Figma’s Chief Design Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanacrisan/ We talk about Figma’s vision for AI, why design is having “an identity crisis and a renaissance at the same time,” and what it means to use AI to express what’s already in your head (not outsource creativity to it). It’s a clarifying conversation about taste, tools, and the future of design 👇 Some highlights: - Designing systems not screens - Loredana’s mental model for AI as a tool - Building your own tools and mini apps in Figma - What Figma is learning in their own UX research - What types of designers Figma is hiring right now - + a lot more
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