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I started working on 'even by design' to heal creatively. Design, today, is predominantly an instrument to enact white modernist ideals. I have had to shed my heritage for the privilege of being called a designer. This is a brief story of how I came to question this privilege.
I didn't go to design school because I didn't know that designers existed. That is not to say that image-making, fabrication, or invention didn't exist where I was from.
There were just named differently. And the people who did them were called artisans or artists.
There were just named differently. And the people who did them were called artisans or artists.
So I stumbled upon design quite accidentally. A colleague who had gone to design school told me that the way I crafted curriculum and the way I taught my statistics class reminded him of design thinking. So I looked it up.
Nothing great is made alone! @figmadesign’s vision is to make design accessible to everyone. This morning at #Config2021 we announced six new ways to collaborate in Figma — starting with our 2nd product FigJam, a new way to brainstorm with your team. (1/26)
At Figma, our next chapter is embracing these use cases as we work towards providing an end to end platform for the design lifecycle: brainstorm → design → production. (2/26)
Since Figma was first launched in December, 2015, we’ve seen people use it not just for interface design but also for a multitude of other use cases, including whiteboarding and diagramming (3/26)
