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Marcin Wichary
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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      2. I introduced a deliberate inconsistency. In normal use of styles, the pop-up shows on top of selection (nicer for your fingers). But here, we decided to move it aside to be consistent between colours and styles, and to not cover the list you care about.pic.twitter.com/QDUBOVgD4K

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      3. We still have this weird problem illustrated in the screenshots. It turns out, our colour precision is higher than a hex string can afford – these two colours are slightly different, so in a way SC isn’t doing anything wrong… but this can be confusing.pic.twitter.com/bKMbcg0qDC

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      But that’s part of the deal, I guess. No, you don’t have to get everything right, but you have to know exactly what you chose not to get right. Here’s what I *do* like about Selection Colors, though:

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      1. It’s a flexible little beast. You can use it as color find and replace, you can use it to manage styles, you can use it to clean up your design – or to revel in its messiness (like I often do). It helps dealing with text, where selection can be particularly tricky.

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      It hopefully sits somewhere perfectly right on the curve of complexity/flexibility. Too little flexibility, and it wouldn’t be powerful. Too much complexity, and it’d be overwhelming.

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      (I’ve been there before with OpenType, which had some similar challenges. I’m still pretty happy with how that turned out: https://www.figma.com/blog/opentype-font-features/ …)

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      2. It provides a nice onramp to travel between the worlds of colours and styles. This felt very important to me. Design can be messy and organized, often within the same day. Design systems can be accelerants, but they can also suffocate.

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      I was hoping for SC to give a set of tools to navigate those two extremes, at least when it comes to colours – and also force us to answer questions that will help in even more projects of this nature.

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      3. I thought this was a great collaboration between design and engineering; something I also care a lot about, and something I see a lot inside Figma.

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      We do not only have great engineers, and not only try to cultivate a great respect for either profession (and encourage thoughtful cross-pollination), but we understand that designers alone could not create a useful design tool.

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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      (As an example, with Auto Layout, our engineers – @kenrickrilee and @willyvvu and @jessieteaa – all made design decisions, and some of them I only became aware of after launch. It was great.)

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          And now, two codas: One is that I got to use Selection Colors to work for some visuals on my personal book project.pic.twitter.com/RHaU5dkXh1

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          This wasn’t the most important part of this effort, but I’m not going to lie – it’s pretty awesome to use the tools you helped create. It’s like creating on two different levels at the same time.

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        4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          Two: Just last week, @nlevin reminded me that what I always thought was the beginning of the project, actually wasn’t.

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        5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          I forgot that long before I joined Figma, I actually pitched Selection Colors as an external fan/observer. This completely slipped my mind. Here is that Medium (of course) post: https://medium.com/@mwichary/quick-ui-idea-selection-colours-aeedc00d7d70 …pic.twitter.com/FbruxAOnrk

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        6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted Andrei Negrau

          This was the past – what’s the future? I am not sure. Some of you requested Selection Text, and I’m onboard with that, but also I realize it requires quite a bit more thinking.https://twitter.com/andreinegrau/status/1248183000451383296 …

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          Andrei Negrau @andreinegrau
          Hey @figmadesign. Feature request: ability to change multiple fonts at once within a specific selection. Just like I can do now with Selection Colors feature.
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        7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          Over time, my guess would be the crosshairs icons are likely to make an appearance in others parts of Figma UI where that feature would be useful. (Which was yet another part of building SC: sketching the future where SC already exists.)

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        8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          But nothing is set in stone is yet, and none of these are promises in any way. Let’s just use it for a while and see what we learn. And that includes you. Please send @figmadesign your feedback or use the ? menu to file a support ticket. (We read all of them!)

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        9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          BTW this wasn’t a complete walkthrough of the process, but parts that stood out to me most. Any thoughts or questions? Let me know!

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        10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          In the meantime, I’ll look at some other ideas put aside long time ago, and see if any of them deserve more attention. :·)

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        11. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Apr 2020
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          (Credit should also go to @eymlin and @skuwamoto who PM’ed this project, the entire design team at @figmadesign, and many other people helping with bits and pieces!!!)

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