Dylan Field

Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design

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Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:02): Today I am excited to bring you a very special episode, which was recorded live at Figma Config with Figma CEO and co-founder, Dylan Field, in front of a live audience at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This is the first ever live recording of this podcast and it was so much fun. If you watch this on YouTube, you can see the epic stage that they built specifically for us to recreate my podcast studio. I could not be more thankful to the Config team for making this happen....

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Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:28): In my conversation with Dylan, we dig into how he builds and refines his product taste and intuition, how intuition is a hypothesis generator, the...

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Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (00:01:12): Dylan, thank you so much for joining me and welcome to the podcast. Dylan Field (00:01:16): Thank you, Lenny. Lenny...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
and just the incredible, incredible people here at Config. Y'all are awesome. I don't know why I keep talking in the mic like this. It's instinctual. But seriously, it's just the most amazing community to be...

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Name strength directly
you because what I've heard from a number of your colleagues is that one of your superpowers is intuition and product taste. And someone said that you have the sixth sense for what's going to work, when you're...

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Accept praise cleanly
Dylan Field (00:47:22): That was a good find. Thank you. Speaker 5 (00:47:27): Dylan, thank you so much for doing this. Dylan Field (00:47:28): Thank you. Can I make...

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