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Noah Levin: AMA with Figma's VP of Design on their latest releases

Design Better · Jul 16, 2025 · 1:03:43

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Figma is central to most designers' workflow these days (certainly is here at Design Better). So it's important to get familiar with all of the latest features. Who better to give us the back story of the releases announced at Config than Noah Levin, VP of Product Design at Figma. Join us for a conversation with Noah and a closer look at how Figma is helping designers design better.

In this AMA, Noah demo’d some of Figma’s newest tools and featured, and we discussed topics including:



Hiring and scaling design teams in the AI age




Emerging trends in design




Career growth for junior UX designers




Fostering better designer-developer collaboration




Improving table design workflows in Figma




AI's impact on design and development roles




Support for print-focused workflows




Staying up to date with Figma tools and features




Lessons from designing the new Figma




Bio

Noah Levin is the VP of Product Design at Figma. Before that he led the UX team at ClassPass in NYC, and before that he was at Google working on Mobile Search in Mountain View. He also spent some time teaching designers to code as an early advisor at Framer, and building a digital assistant for Astronauts at NASA. He studied Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon and is from Pittsburgh originally.

Watch the recording on our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/ama-noah-levin-on-figmas-latest-release

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Learn more about Figma's recent product launches at https://www.config.new/
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