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Figma

🌎 figma.com

Figma is a leading collaborative design tool based in San Francisco, California, that enables teams to design, prototype, and gather feedback on products in a single platform. It aims to make design accessible to everyone and offers a suite of products including Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides, facilitating collaboration among designers, developers, and product managers.

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Figma - Latest News and Updates

• Figma released a Code Connect update expanding web framework support to include design systems in Angular, Vue, and HTML.
• Figma has removed the orientation control feature (portrait & landscape) in its new UI, causing user dissatisfaction.
• Figma will be featured in an 'Introduction to UI/UX' event at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam on October 17, 2024.
• Figma will be featured in an app prototyping workshop at McGill University on November 6, 2024.
• Figma is being used by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance to develop their design system Cuna, allowing real-time design feedback and collaboration across business and system departments.

• Vu Manh has started a role as Team Lead Manager at Figma.
• Blake Weeks has joined Figma as a Senior Enterprise Account Executive from BrowserStack, where he held the position of Sr. Enterprise Account Executive.
• Sheila Joglekar Vashee, Chief Marketing Officer at Figma, discussed with Peak XV's Harshjit Sethi the strategic importance of differentiating product marketing from brand marketing and the role of AI in marketing.

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