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an incredible evening of demos by designers engineers from figma, clay, ramp! ft. chia amisola, nile phillips, @joycebydsgn, @baothiento, @i_cox, eli miller

wooo hoo demo night!!!

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As a designer, I've designed with code almost every single day this past year, across my company & personal projects. In 2024, I only made 84 commits, and much of my work still lived in Figma/Adobe. A lot changed - AI tooling obviously helped. But more than anything, I realized I’ve never had this much fun designing. It has become a hobby rather than just work. I’m learning faster, iterating more, and making design decisions across more layers of abstraction: interface, system, interaction, infrastructure. Designing with code is not for everyone. It's just a part of the modern toolkit - and Figma, Adobe, and many other tools are still there to help. But for me, it has made design feel fluid again, and brought back the same spark I felt when learning Figma for the first time years ago: the realization that I can play an active role in shaping real, helpful products. Design is getting exponentially closer to its “magic wand” moment, and I’m all for it.

Demo night next week with a bunch of talks from @nateparrott @baothiento @Jaytel and more ✨✨✨

count the sheep 😴

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Big news for @conductor_build! We've raised a $22m Series A from Spark and Matrix. We raised this round from @ilyasu at Matrix, who also led our seed round and is joining our board, @nabeel at Spark, @ycombinator, and founders of Notion and Linear. We're grateful to be working with investors we trust and admire. Here’s how we got here and where we’re going: