Niko
@nikolasklein
📦 + 🍝 • product manager for interactivity @figma • @hfggmuend_x • he/him
Design tools are not just there to let you 'do your job'. Design tools should allow you to venture into the unknown and uncover ideas you didn't even know you could have.
wtf is a prototype loved jamming w/ holly and @ridd_design about … prototyping (yet again and not the last time!)
Holly Li and @nikolasklein go deep into the future of prototyping in this week's episode ✧ Rethinking what "high fidelity" means ✧ How Figma Make fits into your workflow ✧ The use cases they're most fascinated by It's high energy, insightful, and should spark a ton of…
We just launched Community for Figma Make! Now people can easily play and remix real vibe coded ideas. I'll be posting new files that use shaders, three.js and other fun ideas for free throughout the week. Link below
Prompt it. Then push it to make it better. Figma Make, now available for everyone to try
Figma Make x @supabase → Add login flows → Save user data → Store uploaded images, files, and more → Call private APIs without hardcoding secrets
I'm hiring! If you're into social, campaigns, brainrot, you could be our new Brand Marketing Strategist → figma.bot/4lGUTSw
This year I had the honor of working on @figma’s Config identity alongside a v talented and hardworking team 🔝 Today we’re pulling back the curtain and sharing a peek into what goes into building such a dreamy ID. Have a read! Enjoy!! figma.com/blog/how-we-sh…
amazing article by @kernio and @DarraghBurke_ about the work of bringing code into Figma pivotal piece of tech iykyk
Building code layers in @figma required us to reconcile two models of thinking about software: a freeform canvas and a structured filesystem. @DarraghBurke_ and I wrote about how the team made code belong on the canvas, gave them an IDE, and turned it all multiplayer! (link ⏬)
Adding code to a canvas tool like Figma wasn't easy. We knew we needed it to feel familiar and powerful to both engineers and designers. Read more about how we built a collaborative spatial coding environment in my Figma blog w/ @kernio! figma.com/blog/building-…
Inspired by @spottedinprod’s interactive video player, I decided to play around with the concept in @figma Site 🎥⌨️
New in Figma Make: Bring styling context from an existing library into Make and specify additional rules to follow to keep things looking consistent
Just published a digital garden of messy @figma Make experiments, mostly to share prompts, ideas, and unfinished explorations. Best viewed on desktop. Still very much a work in progress
Someone asked me if those really were the prompts for the @figma Code Layers sketches I posted 😅 here's a walkthrough video and the result (speeded up the LLM thinking bit bc.. ADHD?)