Lenny Rachitsky: recommendation

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…I think FigJam is in particular a great place to emphasize fun and play, because what are you trying to do in a brainstorm? You're trying to get people to speak up, to add their thoughts. It was during COVID. This is an era where people were going inside themselves while they're locked inside of their home and sheltering in place and they're withdrawing and videos were off. How do we draw out their ideas, their creative spirit? When we do that, it's just to have a fun welcoming experience. I don't think all the things that we've done in FigJam apply to Figma Design. Figma Design is like a, we don't want to get in your way. It's been a cool place to experiment with fun and playful concepts in FigJam. We can do more there on the play side than we can do in Figma Design. In Figma Design, if we get in people's ways with some quirky thing, they might get annoyed. In FigJam, they're like, cool, so the context matters. By the way. I love that you are the person being like, "Guys, I think we should make FigJam. Come on, let's do it." Everyone's like, "No, no, no. That's terrible." I love that you wanting to do this did not make it happen, that people were pushing back on you that hard. Yeah, and there are certainly things that I've pushed through over time. Some of them have gone well, others wrong time. But yeah, I think for a second product it's very hard to go from one to two. Going from two to end is much easier, but going one to two is hard.…

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