✈️ 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗷𝗲𝘃𝗼! Friends of Figma Bosnia and Herzegovina is a stop on the 𝗙𝗼𝗙 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🌍 📅 𝟱 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🕐 𝟱𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 · 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 🕐 𝟳𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 · 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 💻 𝟭𝟬𝟬% 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 For 24 hours non-stop, Friends of Figma chapters around the world take turns on the virtual stage, from Sydney all the way to Vancouver. Double boarding for Bosnia and Herzegovina! Our sessions depart from the Strategy and Process gates. Speakers reveal coming soon 👀 Save the date and stay updated at fof-worldtour.com, registration opening soon! #FoFWorldTour2026

✈️ Now boarding: 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! 🌍 📅 5-6 November 2026 🕐 24 hours. Non-stop. Around the globe. 💻 100% online, join from anywhere Fasten your seatbelts! The FoF World Tour is back, and this year it's bigger than ever. For 24 hours straight, Friends of Figma chapters will each take the virtual stage, kicking off in Sydney and passing the relay all the way to San Francisco 🛫🛬 Expect talks on design, product, engineering and AI, grouped into four streams: Process, Craft, Strategy and Design Systems. Guest speakers from every corner of the globe will give you a front-row seat to how teams around the world design, build and ship. 🎤 40+ sessions 🌐 10+ countries 📣 1 worldwide community Grab your boarding pass at: fof-worldtour.com Follow #FoFWorldTour2026 and your local chapter so you don't miss your flight! Let's bring design, product, engineering and AI experts together, one session at a time 🌏✨

In a few years, designer job posts won't list skills. No "Figma, prototyping, design systems." AI is eating most of that execution work, and fast. What stays is responsibility. Who owns the decision when the generated screen is wrong? Who says no to the stakeholder? Who notices the flow works but makes no sense? That's the job now. Not making the thing. Being accountable for the thing. Juniors are going to feel this first. And I don't think we're preparing them for it at all. We're still teaching tools, while the market is starting to hire judgment. So what should a design job post say in 2028? #designleadership #aidesign

The day I stopped designing, my team started getting better. Not because I was bad at it. Because I was in the way. Every time I jumped into a file "just to fix one thing," I was telling the team something without saying it. Your work isn't finished until I touch it. After 25 years, the hardest skill wasn't design. It was keeping my hands off the mouse. Now my job is different. Set the standard. Make it clear. Protect the time to reach it. Then get out of the way. The work is still good. Sometimes better than mine would've been. That hurt a bit. It also felt like the whole point. Design leads, be honest. When did you last "just fix" something your designer should've fixed? #designleadership #productdesign

There's a specific kind of stuck that creatives don't talk about enough. Not writer's block. Not lack of ideas. Brain fog - where you're sitting in front of the work, technically present, but nothing is connecting. You read the same brief three times. You open a new file. You close it. You make coffee you don't drink. I've had weeks like this. Not days. Weeks. And the worst part is you keep trying to push through it. Because that's what you're supposed to do. Ship. Deliver. Be professional. So you produce things - but you know they're hollow. You can feel it while you're making them. What actually helps me, when I'm honest about it: Stop trying to be creative. Do something mechanical. Reorganize files. Clean up a design system. Write a brief. Let your hands do something your brain doesn't have to lead. Change the input. Not inspiration boards - that just adds pressure. A walk. A film. A conversation with someone who has nothing to do with design. Name it out loud. Even just to yourself. "I'm in brain fog right now." Something shifts when you stop pretending it isn't happening. Give yourself a smaller problem. Not the whole project - one decision. One component. One word. Small enough that finishing it actually feels like finishing something. Brain fog isn't laziness. It isn't a lack of passion. It's your system telling you something is off - usually that you've been giving out more than you've been taking in for too long. The work will come back. It always does.

Some days I count how many times I switch between projects. It's embarrassing. Start something. Get stuck. Open another file. Make some progress. Get a call. Lose the thread. Go back to the first thing. Realize I forgot where I was. Open Twitter. Close Twitter. Open it again. Someone would call it ADHD. I call it burnout - the specific kind where the thing you lose first isn't energy; it's attention. Not to the work. To the point of the work. You're technically doing things. You're just not present for any of them. What I've started doing when I hit that wall - and I hit it more than I'd like to admit - is just talk it through with AI. Not to get an answer. To get unstuck enough to think again. Sometimes that's all you need. A push. Something to react to instead of staring at a blank canvas waiting for inspiration to arrive. It's not a fix. But it gets me back in the room. Curious if you recognize this. And what gets you out?

Most product design books make you pick a lane. User research OR interaction design OR data analytics. Get really good at one thing. I don't think that's how the job actually works anymore. The best product designers I've worked with in 25+ years aren't the best at any single skill. They're dangerous across many of them. Not expert. Dangerous. An expert in research designs rigorous studies and publishes findings. A designer who's dangerous in research can run a solid interview, synthesize fast, and know when they have enough to decide. An expert in analytics builds models and writes complex queries. A designer who's dangerous in analytics can read a dashboard and know when the numbers are lying to them. Expertise is deep. Dangerous is wide. And modern product design asks you to be dangerous in twelve different areas - not master all of them, but engage with all of them, constantly. That's the whole premise behind the book, "Dangerous by design: the product designer's field guide to everything that matters." I just launched the promotional site: dangerousby.design The book isn't ready to buy yet, but you can leave your email, and I'll notify you the day it drops. #dangerousbydesign #productdesign #uxdesign #designleadership

You send a message. An email. A proposal. Something you actually put thought into. Silence. No "not interested." No "got it, will pass." Nothing. Just... gone. I don't care how busy you are - a no takes 5 seconds to type. Ghosting isn't busy, it's rude. And somehow in professional spaces we've decided that's acceptable now. Same thing with feedback. If I didn't ask for your opinion on my work, don't hand it to me anyway. Unsolicited feedback isn't generous - it's someone deciding their opinion matters more than the boundary you didn't even have to set, because it should've been obvious. There's a difference between being helpful and being invasive. Most people confuse the two. Basic netiquette isn't complicated: - Reply, even if it's a no - Ask before you critique - Respect the silence when someone doesn't ask for your take We built entire platforms to "connect" people and somehow made connecting ruder in the process. #netiquette #designleadership #linkedintips #professionalism

We love talking about community until someone actually needs help. A friend of mine, a designer, is about to get evicted. We've been posting, calling, tagging people - trying to get attention on his situation, and on the situation of others like him. Because he's not the only one. The last few years hit our industry hard. Layoffs, contracts drying up, agencies closing doors. Behind every "unfortunately affected by restructuring" post there's someone quietly falling behind on rent, hoping nobody notices. And that's the part that gets me. We don't ask for help. Not really. Not until we're standing at the edge of losing everything. There's a pride wired into a lot of us - especially in this field - that treats asking for support like admitting failure. So we wait. We smile in meetings. We keep our portfolios updated like everything's fine. And by the time we finally say something, it's not "can someone point me to a job" anymore. It's "can someone help me not get thrown out of my apartment." I don't have a neat conclusion here. Just a question I keep asking myself this week: if it was you, would your network actually show up? Not react-with-a-heart show up. Actually show up. If you know anyone hiring, anyone with freelance work, anyone with a spare room even - say something. Tag someone. Share this. It costs you nothing and it might be the thing that changes someone's month. You can still help someone lnkd.in/d7y6k6B5 #design #community #layoffs #mentalhealthawareness

I have never asked my community here for help. This is the first time I’m asking you to help someone - not directly for me, but for a good friend and fellow designer, @TG_Khalil. I’ve known TG for the past two years through his Twitch streams. He has been streaming almost every day, showcasing @Figma as a tool, sharing his knowledge, and teaching others how to use it. In many ways, you could call him a small independent educator in our design community. Unfortunately, he is now facing a very difficult situation. For the past couple of years, he has been struggling with his landlord, and he recently lost the final lawsuit. As a result, he is facing eviction by the end of this month. I know how difficult it must have been for him to put his pride aside and ask people for help. But he did. He created a GoFundMe campaign, and I ask you to take a moment to read his story and decide for yourself if you can help this person. A few of us have been trying to support him over the past few months, but we need more people to step in. Please be one of them. Your donation can help him get back on his feet. It doesn't have to be a large amount. One euro, two euros, whatever you can afford. When many people contribute, even small amounts can make a huge difference. Thank you in advance, and truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for helping a fellow designer who has spent years helping others. And if you can't donate, please share his story on your social channels. That alone can help us reach someone who can. gofundme.com/f/help-me-avoid… Thank you <3 #gofundme #donate