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Dylan Field

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The Spy and the Traitor

“Understanding Comics is a good one. The Spy and the Traitor, whatever hard situation you're going through, you read that book and you're like, "Okay, it could be worse."”

Lenny's Podcast · 16 Oct 2025

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Understanding Comics

“Understanding Comics is a good one. The Spy and the Traitor, whatever hard situation you're going through, you read that book and you're like, "Okay, it could be worse."”

Lenny's Podcast · 16 Oct 2025

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02 / belief

I think Damien, our creative director, Marcin on our product design team, Amber, our editor. But also, one person we've recently hired that I think has incredible taste is Loredana, she's our new chief design officer.

“I think Damien, our creative director, Marcin on our product design team, Amber, our editor. But also, one person we've recently hired that I think has incredible taste is Loredana, she's our new chief design officer.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

Your conversation with AI is not the same as your conversation with a lawyer, but I think that any place where you're going to consult an expert but can come in more informed, that is interesting.

“Your conversation with AI is not the same as your conversation with a lawyer, but I think that any place where you're going to consult an expert but can come in more informed, that is interesting.”
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Dylan Field
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Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

A lot of the people I've hired as leaders I've learned so much from. But outside of that zero to one, where I just had a lot to understand about how to manage folks, I think on the leadership side, it's the same lessons over and over again.

“A lot of the people I've hired as leaders I've learned so much from. But outside of that zero to one, where I just had a lot to understand about how to manage folks, I think on the leadership side, it's the same lessons over and over again.”
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Dylan Field
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Lenny's Podcast

07 / belief

Yeah, also just I think the fact that it lives within the platform is very important too because it unlocks more opportunity to make it so that we can make it interoperable with the rest of the platform.

“Yeah, also just I think the fact that it lives within the platform is very important too because it unlocks more opportunity to make it so that we can make it interoperable with the rest of the platform.”
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Dylan Field
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Lenny's Podcast

09 / belief

More PMs and developers and researchers also need to be willing to engage with design as well. Because I think at the end of the day, that's going to be how you win or lose, and if you don't internalize that now you're going to regret it later.

“More PMs and developers and researchers also need to be willing to engage with design as well. Because I think at the end of the day, that's going to be how you win or lose, and if you don't internalize that now you're going to regret it later.”
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Dylan Field
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Lenny's Podcast

10 / belief

I think that with Figma Make, the more we can do to help you get to a great starting point, then also iterate, refine from there, tour something excellent, and also go wide, explore the option space.

“I think that with Figma Make, the more we can do to help you get to a great starting point, then also iterate, refine from there, tour something excellent, and also go wide, explore the option space.”
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Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / belief

There are I think a lot of people who when you put them on the thing that they are super interested and fired up about will outperform your wildest imagination of what's possible.

“There are I think a lot of people who when you put them on the thing that they are super interested and fired up about will outperform your wildest imagination of what's possible.”
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Dylan Field
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Lenny's Podcast

13 / belief

We're hiring for most roles, but I would say, first of all, if you love hard problems and if you are really interested in how to make, if you're a user of Figma and you're thinking yourself, "Man, they could do so much better.

“We're hiring for most roles, but I would say, first of all, if you love hard problems and if you are really interested in how to make, if you're a user of Figma and you're thinking yourself, "Man, they could do so much better.”
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Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / recommendation

I think, again, it's just the more you can expand your viewpoints by looking at new things, like finding the cross correlations, the links between different areas and different fields, different mediums, the better.

“I think, again, it's just the more you can expand your viewpoints by looking at new things, like finding the cross correlations, the links between different areas and different fields, different mediums, the better.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / preference

For that reason, I was never very athletic and stayed away from the team sports as a kid because nothing drives me more crazy than there's a game I'm playing and I cannot win it.

“For that reason, I was never very athletic and stayed away from the team sports as a kid because nothing drives me more crazy than there's a game I'm playing and I cannot win it.”
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Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / evaluation

I would say you can't constrain by always sorting, descending by TAM, but we're not very much, from Figma Design, there is no reason, no data that we could look at that said, there are enough designers in the world for Figma Design to be a big market.

“I would say you can't constrain by always sorting, descending by TAM, but we're not very much, from Figma Design, there is no reason, no data that we could look at that said, there are enough designers in the world for Figma Design to be a big market.”
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Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / evaluation

Because we're able to exit this deal that didn't work out and go into launching Dev Mode and really pushing on how do we expand our platform in a big way.

“Because we're able to exit this deal that didn't work out and go into launching Dev Mode and really pushing on how do we expand our platform in a big way.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / evaluation

I think that the industry then, even though it wasn't that long ago, was in a very different place in terms of the conversation around AI than we are today, but also, people put us through as paces in the ways that we hadn't fully done.

“I think that the industry then, even though it wasn't that long ago, was in a very different place in terms of the conversation around AI than we are today, but also, people put us through as paces in the ways that we hadn't fully done.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

21 / belief

The best PMs, I think again, create those frameworks that bring everyone else along and those frameworks also have a point of view and a strategy associated with them.

“The best PMs, I think again, create those frameworks that bring everyone else along and those frameworks also have a point of view and a strategy associated with them.”
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Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

24 / belief

Shishir is amazing by the way, and has been a mentor for a long time to me and many people on our team. And he, I think, at the time did not know he was the first customer.

“Shishir is amazing by the way, and has been a mentor for a long time to me and many people on our team. And he, I think, at the time did not know he was the first customer.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

25 / belief

Sometimes people are saying, "Hey, I need X", but they really want Y or Z. And trying to do that myself and engage and dive deeper there, but also to encourage our team to do that, I think leads to really good outcomes in terms of what we ship.

“Sometimes people are saying, "Hey, I need X", but they really want Y or Z. And trying to do that myself and engage and dive deeper there, but also to encourage our team to do that, I think leads to really good outcomes in terms of what we ship.”
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Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

26 / prediction

I was looking online on social media and I think people are already zeroing in the right conversation, which is, okay, in a world of more software being created by AI, what does that mean and the impact on craft and the impact on quality and the need to have more unique design and how design is a differentiator.

“I was looking online on social media and I think people are already zeroing in the right conversation, which is, okay, in a world of more software being created by AI, what does that mean and the impact on craft and the impact on quality and the need to have more unique design and how design is a differentiator.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

27 / commitment

Absolutely, everyone's responsible for simplicity. And I think another quote that is not mine but is a really a good one is "Keep the simple things simple.

“Absolutely, everyone's responsible for simplicity. And I think another quote that is not mine but is a really a good one is "Keep the simple things simple.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

29 / evaluation

And don't worry, we're not shipping Pages. But I am still very skeptical of them and I think that in general, probably my team would tell you that I don't always change my mind, but I also build trust with people in deep ways.

“And don't worry, we're not shipping Pages. But I am still very skeptical of them and I think that in general, probably my team would tell you that I don't always change my mind, but I also build trust with people in deep ways.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

30 / evaluation

Certain directions we tried didn't work out and we really had to get to a place where we were able to really believe that we were adding value and really understood the developer's user, and it just didn't happen for a long time. So it's interesting because I think people look at Dev Mode and sometimes they go, "Oh, this is quite simple", to the point about simplicity.

“Certain directions we tried didn't work out and we really had to get to a place where we were able to really believe that we were adding value and really understood the developer's user, and it just didn't happen for a long time. So it's interesting because I think people look at Dev Mode and sometimes they go, "Oh, this is quite simple", to the point about simplicity.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

31 / preference

I don't know if I've got a life motto, but one piece of advice I've always appreciated is when people give you advice, they're not giving you advice, they're giving themselves advice in your shoes.

“I don't know if I've got a life motto, but one piece of advice I've always appreciated is when people give you advice, they're not giving you advice, they're giving themselves advice in your shoes.”
Speaker
Dylan Field
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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