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Figma is getting crushed in its post-IPO earnings debut; CEO Dylan Field is focused on AI’s long-term power to ‘raise the ceiling’

In an interview with Fortune, the cofounder and chief executive of the newly public Figma discussed the increasingly interconnected future of design and AI.

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Design ThinkingFor One Designer, the Materials Are the Message
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Design ThinkingOne Company’s Quest to Make Recycling ‘Sexy’
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SAP chief design officer Maricel Cabahug at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingA.I. Could Help Us Be More Human
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Design ThinkingHealthcare Has a Design Problem, but There’s a Remedy
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Design ThinkingHow to Design a Smarter Nation
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Design ThinkingA Glimpse of the Future of Automotive Design
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Fortune's Clay Chandler with author Maria Giudice, Justin Maguire of Salesforce, Nalini Kotamraju of Salesforce, and Harry West of Invisible Design at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingBig Companies Need to Be Better Design Leaders. Here’s Why
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Fortune CEO Alan Murray with Rod Farmer and Kim Müller of McKinsey & Co. at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingHow to Scale a Design-Focused Business
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Design ThinkingEmerging Technologies Have Too Much Potential to be Feared
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Helle Søholt, founding partner and CEO of Gehl, at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
CommentaryTech Designers Have a ‘Moral Obligation’ to Help the Environment, But They’re Not
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TechData Sheet—Tech Designers Have a ‘Moral Obligation’ to Help the Environment, But They’re Not
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Design ThinkingCan Design Help Prevent Electronic Waste From Ending Up in a Landfill?
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Design ThinkingFocus on Better Design, Not Better Marketing
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Mark Wee, executive director of the DesignSingapore Council, speaking at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingIn Singapore, ‘We Are Always Looking for Moonshots’
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Google director of UX design Kat Holmes speaking at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingFor Designers, Inclusion Can Be a Source of Innovation
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Invisible Design principal Harry West speaking at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingWhy Designers Should Study the Mundane
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Doug Powell of IBM (middle) and Nathan Shedroff of Seed Vault (right) with Clay Chandler of Fortune at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingIn Business, the ‘Frozen Middle’ Blocks Design Thinking. Here’s How to Fix It
By Eamon BarrettMarch 6, 2019
Architect Christian Benimana, principal of the MASS Design Group, speaking at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingHey, Architects: Don’t Just Design a Project—Dignify It
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'Design as an Attitude' author Alice Rawsthorn speaking at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingWhy Bad Design Is Important
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Design ThinkingTony Fadell: Want to Design for a Sustainable Future? Think Different
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Design ThinkingFacebook Exec: ‘There Is No Such Thing as Neutral Design’
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Artist Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
Design ThinkingDaan Roosegaarde Wants to Create Art from Space Junk
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Airbnb transportation director Jenny Arden (right), with Fortune's Maithreyi Seetharaman, at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
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Helle Søholt, founding partner and CEO of Gehl, at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
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TechData Sheet—How Ford CEO Jim Hackett Impressed Designers, But Not Investors
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Maithreyi Seetharaman of Fortune, Ben Sheppard of McKinsey & Co., Jeanne Liedtka of the University of Virginia, and Jason Wild of Salesforce at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
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