“And design is a team sport-it’s collaborative by nature.”Īs a high school student at a tech-focused magnet school in Sonoma County, California, Field built robots and websites for friends. “The entire economy is going from physical to digital, and design is just the latest chapter,” Field says. The mission today is simple: As Google Docs did for word processing and GitHub for code, so Figma is doing for design.
( Forbes applies a 10% private-company discount.) Forbes estimates that Field and cofounder Evan Wallace, 31, each own about 10% of Figma, making them near-billionaires. In June, the company raised $200 million from investors, valuing Figma at $10 billion. in 2020, Kimberly-Clark drafted reorder forms using Figma’s tools. And when toilet paper ran out across the U.S. Joe Biden’s campaign managed all its visual assets via Figma. Figma, launched in 2016, already has millions of users and expects annual recurring revenue to more than double this year from $75 million in 2020, according to sources. 7 on this year’s Cloud 100 list, came around, designers were also turning to Sketch out of Europe and to InVision (No.
Already, Figma has added audio support to chat with teammates another frequently requested feature that moved up in priority: a timer.Īdobe popularized software for designers back in the 1980s by the time Figma, No. “When you’ve done it enough, it’s almost like the market is going to extract the product out of you,” he says. And we’re not trying to worry about pixels,’” Field says.Īfter a six-month sprint, Figma had enough input from customers such as Discord, Netflix and Stripe to launch the public beta test version of FigJam Field pegged it at 25% complete, expecting it to evolve over time. “With a brainstorming session, you’re trying to create this really fluid space and get everyone into a headspace of ‘Are we in flow? We’re going to have fun. That’s where FigJam comes in, serving as a digital version of a home or office wall covered in Post-it Notes. But there was no way for them to use Figma to diagram early ideas or create flowcharts. By October, he had a plan.įigma’s main product provides a virtual canvas where designers and others make visuals in real time.
While he has traveled as far as Ukraine and Nigeria to visit clients in person, he passed the time during lockdown reading customer support tickets, scanning feedback from sales reps and responding to users on Twitter.
Hours later, he found out his wife, Elena, was pregnant with their first child.įield, 29, had spent the majority of the pandemic listening to Figma’s users. At the virtual conference of his design software company, Figma, popular with customers including Airbnb, BMW and Zoom, he announced just its second-ever product, a tool for online whiteboarding sessions punnily called FigJam. In April, Dylan Field had his craziest day since he skipped out on Brown University to try his hand at startups nearly a decade ago.
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