I teach graphic design. I like drawing, books, graphic design, tacos, and Figma. OG Figma education advisory board member. Working on footer.design.
Joined July 2009
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An incomplete list of designers who have influenced my work and career:
@ashthorp1
@brent_ashe
@hellomuller
@Michaelcina
@mikedotsullivan
@miggi
Chris Ashworth ashworth.work
@theChrisDo
@ianTDR
Kimberly Elam
@JoshuaDavis
Michael Paul Young
@rsms (Inter!)
@jessicahische
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May 30
Chance to learn from a master...
When I started Baseframe, the whole idea was pretty simple: make an easy, comfortable @framer template that puts real design work first. No overcomplicated features, no unnecessary stuff. Just a tool that solves one thing really well
Open the thread and grab it for free! π§΅
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This is the way.
May 27
While other agency owners are building to scale their millions, I've been building to scale my minutes.
In 2018 I worked 80-hour weeks for a year and had almost nothing to show for it. Today I haven't worked more than 30 hours in a week in over a year, and I'm writing about exactly how that happened.
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May 25
Yo, @Office
PowerPoint is a screen design tool. Can we get pixel measurements as an option?
PPT is capable but the UI and some of the set up is terrible.
I can't change the color of a guide? Why not?
Can't put stuff behind a master page item? Come on!
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May 25
I have clients who want designs in ppt to match their branding but that means I am stuck working in your tool. Can you help out?
I would work for you for free to help make it better.
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Matt Cram retweeted
May 20
I'm hiring another Senior Brand Designer to join Brass Hands. DM me if you feel like you're a good fit.
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May 20
"Cheap is the right answer when the website is a placeholder. Expensive is the right answer when the website is a milestone."
β @bentenwoodring. .
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"The old design looked so busy, this is much cleaner."
"The old design looked so boring, this has more life."
"The old design looked so busy, this is much cleaner."
"The old design looked so boring, this has more life."
"The old design looked so busy, this is much cleaner."
etc.
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May 15
If you write or have interest in CSS, this is the newsletter for you:
piccalil.li/the-index/
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Matt Cram retweeted
May 7
The Config 2026 agenda is live and virtual registration is open and free for everyone globally. Register to tune in to this yearβs sessions. figma.bot/config-virtual
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May 7
One Battle After Another
Oppenheimer
Black Panther
Each has some good folks associated with them but they bored me to tears.
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Matt Cram retweeted
May 7
For anyone unable to join us in-person in San Francisco this June, virtual config is free to attend! Register here: config.figma.com/
Agenda just dropped today, too! cc/ @figma
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May 7
More than half my design work in Figma is branding or print focused. Probably much more. I also do web but near zero UI. Of course this is just me but surely that's is not an unusual position.
Figma is near-perfect for brand and print work. (needs better output - PDF and PPT)
interesting observation. not surprising to me.
last year's Config (and year before), lots of designers were upset that it felt almost all about AI and UI.
people may not realize this, but there's not really any competition when it comes to multiplayer design tools. so lots of people use Figma for graphic and print. Yes there are trad tools but they aren't multiplayer, or if they are, they're missing a lot of Figma's power.
Also, people are realizing that it's nice to work in the same tool, regardless of the design task at hand. it opens up a lot of opportunity to share components across different types of work.
also this isn't necessarily empirical, but my plugin 'print for figma' has been growing in users faster than ever before. just more evidence that more people are using Figma for everything.
not to mention, all the new updates to Figma draw etc
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Figma is my ride or die.
Made some improvements to make your workflows faster. Like a lot faster.
β Vector editing up to 10x faster
β Make frame rates 4x smoother
β Faster load times
β 92% fewer memory warnings
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Apr 24
Honestly my favorite kind of update! Optimization! Thanks figs!!
Made some improvements to make your workflows faster. Like a lot faster.
β Vector editing up to 10x faster
β Make frame rates 4x smoother
β Faster load times
β 92% fewer memory warnings
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Matt Cram retweeted
Apr 21
Here is your permission to add a little texture to your work with a @figma Draw scatter brush. Give that design a little bit of personality. π«Άπ½
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Apr 3
Imagine being a designer and all your content is about how nobody needs a designer because ai can do it
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Yo @figma. Can you help a brother out and give PDF some love? Live text. Image resolution, or at least full image vs scaled?
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