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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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By Alexandra SternlichtAugust 4, 2025
Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of
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Healthcare Has a Design Problem, but There’s a Remedy
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How to Design a Smarter Nation
By Robert HornMarch 14, 2019
A Glimpse of the Future of Automotive Design
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A Glimpse of the Future of Automotive Design
By TF Chan and WallpaperMarch 14, 2019
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Emerging Technologies Have Too Much Potential to be Feared
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Emerging Technologies Have Too Much Potential to be Feared
By Robert HornMarch 13, 2019
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Tech Designers Have a ‘Moral Obligation’ to Help the Environment, But They’re Not
By Clay ChandlerMarch 7, 2019
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For Designers, Inclusion Can Be a Source of Innovation
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Why Designers Should Study the Mundane
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In Business, the ‘Frozen Middle’ Blocks Design Thinking. Here’s How to Fix It
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Hey, Architects: Don’t Just Design a Project—Dignify It
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To Power Its Transportation Ambitions, Airbnb Looks to Design
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Tokyo’s Toranomon Hills Station Tower: Shunning a ‘Bento Box’ Approach to Architecture
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By Timothy McDonaldMarch 5, 2019
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Does Design Pay Off? Yes. (And There’s Data to Prove It.)
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IDEO CEO Tim Brown (right), with Fortune's Clay Chandler, at the 2019 Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore.
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IDEO CEO Tim Brown: For Design, ‘Empathy Is Not the End, It’s the Means’
By Andrew NuscaMarch 5, 2019
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