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The Future of Design Isn’t AI. It’s Taste.

I arrived in San Francisco for Config 2026 expecting to learn about AI. Like everyone else, I wanted to see what Figma would unveil next. New capabilities. New workflows. New ways to design, prototype and build products faster than ever before.

The Future of Design Isn’t AI. It’s Taste.

There is a particular kind of magic when you have the right mix of a team and diversity of lived experience and perspectives to really make an amazing product or service, but also do good work and feel good doing it.