The story of Figma’s big AI pivot - Vincent van der Meulen (Dive Club S6 | E11)

If you watched last week’s episode, then you heard Jordan Singer say how visual search was actually the “killer feature” (not generative AI). What’s interesting is that this feature was actually a mid-project pivot.
So in this episode we get the full behind-the-scenes of visual search from design engineer Vincent van der Meulen (x.com/vincentmvdm)
- Why they decided to pivot
- How Vincent went cowboy mode
- A look at the future of design engineering
- What good design looks like in an AI world
- Why visual search is a big deal for future AI tools
- How Vincent used video to get Figmates excited about his idea
- + a lot more
- Marco (x.com/marcofyi) and Jordan (x.com/jsngr) from the old Diagram team
- Matt Dailey ( / matthewjdailey ) was the engineer that proved designs can be represented as images
- 2024 Config Keynote ( • Config 2024: Figma pro... ) showing Vincent’s Uber example for visual search
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[@osoggy]

This channel is a gold mine for me as hci/cs student training to be a design engineer thank you

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So glad to hear it :)