Jenny Wen
@jenny_wen
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All over the map. I lead design for FigJam & other new, top secret things @figma .
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my love language is DMing coworkers a little joke when we're on the same zoom and seeing the slight upturn in their expression when they read it
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everyone: "hey jenny is it ever confusing to design figma in figma ha ha ha HA ha"
me: "n-n-nn-no"
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great now i can't hide my subpar visual design skills behind flat design anymore
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i realized that basically every kid who grew up in the late 80s/90s has a picture like this because getting a computer was a Very Big Deal.
show me yours!
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the weirdest part about new employees joining while working remotely is that you have no idea how tall they are
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so much of tech culture depends on "growth mindset" and i'm realizing how much that's seeped into my life outside work (e.g. bike faster, keep being better photographer, read more, etc.)
i'm trying to do stuff with no expectation to be good or to grow. it's so freeing. just do.
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name me a more painful activity than typing in your 1password-generated, ultra secure, special-character inclusive netflix password in your tv using just the arrow keys on your remote control
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personally excited about the SF exodus. instead of being a tech town, it can be finally be the rom-com destination it was meant to be.
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I'm hiring for a ⭐️very very very special role⭐️ on the FigJam team. An IC Design Lead that will be my closest working partner, as the team scales.
🧵 Here's how I see this role...
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Just put up our design intern opening for Summer 2020. Work with us! You'll get mentorship AND impactful projects.
This is a good one! I promise.
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so excited to be launching this jacket into the world 🌟
it's been a journey. i bought it during quarantine and had to keep it from the world. finally, i get to share it with you.
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Maybe a 🌶 take — but I wish candidates from other roles (e.g. PM, eng) all had portfolios, sorta like designers do.
Portfolios take a lot of time to put together... But understanding the context, process, and final output is a lot higher signal than most interview questions.
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In case you missed it: we launched FigJam today at Config!
There are a lot of product detail tweets out there and also in our talk:
One rewarding thing, personally however, has been reflecting on what I’ve learned from it and the people I learned from:
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something weirdly joyful about making a digital thing based on a physical thing, then making a physical thing based on that digital thing.
iykyk
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OK, I rarely have Design Takes™️, but my warm take is that visual design is totally learnable.
But for some reason, we're not great (as an industry) at training people to get better at it and as a result, designers are convinced that they'll never get better at it.
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👋 I’m hiring!! Again! This time, for a product design manager on the FigJam team
@figma
.
Manager roles are a dime a dozen, so here's a thread about what's different ↓
1. Upleveling craft and design work
2. Ownership of a frontier of our business
3. Calibre of the team
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👋 We're hiring for a few roles across the
@figmadesign
design team, but I wanted to highlight one near and dear to me.
We're looking for someone with strong craft and systems thinking chops to lead design on FigJam.
Some highlights from last year👇
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Waterloo is no frills AF and has a greater socioeconomic spread compared to US schools we get grouped with.
It made so many people socially mobile. It was a chance to build up a resume without wealth or family connections. It gave us hunger and a chip on the shoulder.
highest signal for ability to generate shareholder value
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i’m finding more and more joy out of hobbies where i make stuff and i _don’t_ share it with the world
working in private is a tiny luxury and i don’t need anyone’s approval except my own
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I worked on a thing and now you can use the thing (to create templates in Paper)! Really proud of the whole team that worked on this 😊😊😊
@adamlafave
@Dropbox
@DropboxDesign
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In true collaborative fashion, it was magical to see people all across the company (tons of non-designers!) make these cursors. Here's a sneak peeksie of how it came together.
also please refer to them as "lil' [cursor]" thank you
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lmaooooo at jason "jumping on a call to close a deal" with the iOS camera app open
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Launch day
@figmadesign
!! This team executes like no other team I've been on.
One magical thing has been watching how the team's started to use all these new features internally and how they've changed the way we work.
Here's a few ways we've been jamming... 👇
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FigJam turns 1 today. I'm reflecting on how much I've grown up with this lil' piece of software and caught off guard by how emotional I am.
It's been heartening to see all the ways people love FigJam already; taxing to be excruciatingly aware of all the ways it could be better.
Today is FigJam’s birthday 🥳
To celebrate, we got you three small gifts. See if you can find all three!
We’ll give you some hints….
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This got overshadowed by That Other News, but FigJam won
@FastCompany
's Innovation by Design award last week!!!1!!1!
Proud of the design team (obv), but also the rest of the FigJam fam. I feel lucky that this whole team cares deeply about design 🥲
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👋 We just put up our openings for Product Design New Grad and Intern (2021).
If you're self-motivated and excited about building tools people depend on, definitely apply!
New grad:
Intern:
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we have these little magnetic word things in our office's conference call rooms and people often thread them together to make phrases/poems.
this is my favourite one so far:
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Come work with me!!1!!1!
Our interns get to work on real projects that ship AND they get mentorship along the way.
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moments like these still make me go, "wow, are we a REAL company now??"
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ah yes it's that time of the year again where a corporation owns all the sunlight hours of your day
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in the time of covid-19 in san francisco my thoughts and prayers go out to all the early-20-something new grads who can't eat catered lunch for the first time
take vitamins / preserve your energy / make sure water is boiling before adding pasta to pot
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Pencils painted onto bollards at 19th and Lexington! Giddy when I spotted these.
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love living with a significant other who also works in tech because our tv screensaver is a shared google photos album that's 40% expense receipts and app screenshots
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do you ever watch a movie, and it’s fine, but then a character pulls out their phone and it’s like… the goofiest looking UI you’ve ever seen? and the entire movie loses credibility to you??
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let's just all move back home to toronto, start a company together, and go for dim sum every sunday
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if these lines are 6 feet then pythagorean theorem would suggest that each person is only about 4 feet away from their nearest neighbours!!!
if you are standing in square formation, please make sure you're measuring the edges and not the diagonals thank you
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trader joes everything bagel seasoning is just furikake for white people
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i learned about self-compassion today in therapy and realized
dude
i have never been nice to myself, ever
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Today was my last day at Dropbox.
My heart is full and I'm feeling so so grateful.
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👋 Hi! Is your team's brand/marketing design team using
@figma
? We'd love to chat and learn about how you're using it. DM me!
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shirtless pics dudes on tinder
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who taught product designers to use super wide letter-spacing so that everything reads l i k e t h i s ?
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waterlooo discourse is wild because we never felt proud when we went there.
it never felt magical, or special. we were just fighting to survive. it is the kirkland signature of universities.
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A lot of the canonical way we build products today is based on methods developed at ads-based, consumer companies. e.g. A/B testing, success metrics, impact prioritization, design systems, etc.
What if these methods shouldn't actually be applied to other types of software?
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Today also marks 2 years at Figma for me.
I'm warm and fuzzy reflecting on all the ways this little (but not so little now!) company has grown and helped me grow along with it.
Beyond excited to share that
@figmadesign
has closed a $200M Series E funding round led by Durable Capital! Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global is also participating along with other new and existing investors. (1/5)
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*quarterly cry for help for someone to make a better goodreads*
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We noticed that people hacked their way into cover images because our defaults often didn't show enough detail.
You can set thumbnails to use any frame that best represents your file, and it'll update as the frame gets updated.
👏🏼
@kiko_lamb
@meaganrgamache
🆕: Today we’re releasing custom file thumbnails.
Now you can select any frame and set it as the file thumbnail, adding helpful context when you're browsing through files.
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America benefits so much from the world-class education systems of other countries via H1-Bs.
It's over. See you in Toronto, everyone.
Breaking News: President Trump will sign an executive order suspending foreign work visas, barring hundreds of thousands of people from coming to work in the U.S. The move includes the H-1B program for high-skilled workers and several other categories.
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Designing together with my team at 6th and Folsom ✨
Big-ups to
@torihinn
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@micahmicah
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@Neobarnabas
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@syzou
making these so fun and inclusive of the
@figmadesign
team.
(also who is marcin??)
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took zoom calls in the bedroom today
capitalism has invaded my most intimate and sacred spaces
i have nothing left to give
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One weird thing I love doing is building taste — e.g. in fashion, interior design, wedding aesthetic, UI design, etc.
It's like, oddly fun to hone an opinion on what I, uniquely like, and develop an eye for something.
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Issa thing!
We've been thinking about how Figma can help designers work with not only other designers, but with eng, PMs, writers, and even people outside of their teams. Here's our first foray into a long journey to come.
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there's something eternally satisfying about this spreadsheet interaction. every single time.
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I really like this trend of making [technical thing] for designers' guides. Not just because they're for designers, but because they make traditionally intimidating topics accessible to people in general.
💥 If you’re a designer who is interested in using the terminal / cli tools, I made something for you.
👉
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We're launching a new and improved FigJam AI 1.5 today!
I'm kicking off some hiring soon (watch this space!), so here's a prompt I used to rethink the interview process...
More prompts to steal here:
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a very wholesome thing i started doing is just writing down things i've learned—sorta like a gratitude journal, but learning
i look at it every once in a while as a reminder that i (like other humans) am capable of progress. it’s one of the most hopeful feelings i have.
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bay area teenagers flexing their age when applying for tech jobs is a silicon valley trend that i am not about
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One of the earliest pieces of feedback I got in my career was to work on being more confident and clear when I spoke in front of people.
But uh, I somehow slipped into doing my 2nd talk yesterday at Config?? Thank you for listening and for all your kindness in this journey 💗
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Baby's first conference talk
@designmattersdk
last month!!!
👼🏻👼🏻👼🏻
Sharing this is scary, but doing this talk made me feel brave. So, I'm brave now.
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sitting together quietly on our laptops and not talking to each other is my sixth love language.
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👼🏻 Baby's first (very simple) plug-in 👼🏻
(like so simple i'm almost embarrassed that this is what i made)
(but also it was so easy!!!)
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me, when things are getting serious in slack DMs and i need to switch to Business Writing
Jenny Wen at 9:59 AM: oooo hahaha h ha lol
Jenny Wen at 10:00 AM: Hi! 👋 Hope you had a good weekend. I was wondering if you could...
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This is the first week that the pandemic and all its by-products have felt unendurable to me.
Everyone is different and I'm lucky to have not felt this way until now. But, this is the week.
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why do vegetarian options always gotta be vegetables trying really hard to be meat?
vegetables are delicious and deserve to be eaten for their true selves.
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here is a teaser from my
#config2021
talk
A teaser from my Figma Config talk happening this Thursday, April 22nd
Sign up →
#Config2021
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the SFO to YYZ flight on christmas eve is just first-gen uwaterloo alums living their truest nouveau riche tech lives
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there's no better way to discourage millennials from doing a thing than making it a thing where you have to pick up a phone and call someone
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Hi! It's Maker Week
@figmadesign
this week.
I've run the design new grad + internship programs the past couple of years and was thinking about writing a blog post about it this week. What would you want to learn?
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really missed being clacket-y shoe office person
feels so good to know that 91 people can hear me approaching i am POWERFUL
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in 2021, tech people learned that there are other american cities besides sf and nyc
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another way to solve the problem at hand is just to form a company of only hot girls—no creeps
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soapbox: most delightful things are not confetti or illustrations or snarky copy
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am i an Influencer?
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Writing has always helped me express parts of myself that I haven't felt quite ready to say out loud. So, I'm entirely scared for you to read this.
It was a total honour having
@desklunch__
as the platform for this. Subscribe to them!
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A feeling I've been having lately:
San Francisco is like "The Giving Tree" to tech people. We take so much from it, ask so much of it, and give so little back to it.
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Helloooo, our new grad roles
@figmadesign
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Come be a fresh face on our mighty, thoughtful, collaborative, detail-oriented, emoji-reacting, weird (in a good way), and ever-evolving product design team.
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every time i stay at my parents' house, i just regress
it's me i am baby
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