Get it out as fast as you possibly can. Everything they tell you about making sure that you get a product out really quickly is totally true. The faster you get it out, the more feedback you get.
Figma's CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups
October 16, 2025
Featuring: Dylan Field (Co-founder and CEO, Figma)
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Keep the simple things simple. Make the complex things possible.
Cut scope, not quality
For a new launch, you got quality, features, deadline, choose two. The beautiful thing about software is you can keep iterating on it. So it's not like a physical product where you have to always have quality in there, otherwise it's never going to have quality.
Context determines right vs wrong approaches
When people give you advice, they're not giving you advice, they're giving themselves advice in your shoes.
Simplicity beats features in driving real value
The more that you add, the harder it is to create something that's coherent. One plus one does not equal three, it sometimes equals one and a half. And the more that you add and the more that you continue to put in something, the more complex it gets and the worse it gets.