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The Designer Who Deleted Figma
Six months ago, Tomás Reyes uninstalled every design tool and started shipping straight from the browser. We sent him five questions.
Five questions for Tomás Reyes
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What actually broke when you deleted Figma?
- Tomás
The theatre broke. Mockups are a performance of certainty for stakeholders. The real design decisions were always happening in the browser anyway — Figma was where we drew pictures of them afterwards.
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What do you miss?
- Tomás
Multiplayer cursors. Design crits died a little when there was no canvas to gather around. We do them on deployed previews now, which is more honest and slightly less fun.
Recorded & transcribed with submag interviews
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