This is my talk from Config, @figmadesign’s first conference. It’s 20 minutes on typography, keyboards, weird bugs, and complexities of building anything that deals with fonts.
I’m happy with how this turned out, and I think you’ll like it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD-sjtFoEI …
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Lastly, I incorporated an inside joke of Flippy – our internal rogue mascot I’m probably not supposed to talk about. Flippy’s tragic (as usual) fate was that he got obscured by closed captioning, but now you know he was there all along!pic.twitter.com/moTlYid0SA
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And! This is my Figma file with final slides and prior explorations. Since I do my slide decks in HTML, not everything will be here – but you can see earlier takes, and designs, and tracks I eventually abandoned.https://www.figma.com/file/0FXwfvMCyjNPFR1PiKn5Iy/Config-2020-final-slides …
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The funniest thing: The person who reported that bug was my friend
@kowitz (probably not knowing that I even work at Figma) – and he was also in the audience during the talk. :·)https://twitter.com/kowitz/status/1225554793076117504 …
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And, by the way. If you like that kind of stuff – as a designer, or as an engineer – come work with me:https://www.figma.com/careers/
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(Also, huge thanks to
@carmeldea,@nikolasklein, and@cristentor for their fantastic feedback that made the talk much better than it otherwise would end up being.)Show this thread
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