Dylan Field: Is AI Replacing Designers?, Design is the New Code & Democratizing Creativity

Dylan Field, welcome to the all in interview. Thank you. Thanks for having me. We are here in beautiful Napa, Yountville, California. Yeah. You're three drinks in. We're a couple drinks in, and we decided to go on camera. Yeah. Why not? Why not? Well, what are you doing here? I'm going all of you. As your wealth grows, have you noticed how much more complex things get? Between investments, tax strategy, and estate planning, managing it all is a full time job you didn't ask for. Creative Planning can help. Their coordinated team of investment managers, CPAs, and affiliated estate attorneys can do much of the heavy lifting so you don't have to. Creative Planning, where wealth works together. Go to creativeplanning.com/ all in. I was... For this event that you're going to be at tomorrow as well. I'm at an event tomorrow. Yeah. Same event. And we were basically talking about design, product development. I suck in a little bit of security. Thought that'd be nice. But overall, a lot about just, like, how product development is evolving. And in my point of view, the thing you'd expect me to say too is that design is the new code. And what's happening right now is as coding models get better, I'm not saying that you don't need engineers. We definitely need engineers at Figma. We love our engineers. But also the nature of programming is changing. And as it changes, the value is rising in terms of differentiation to the top. Right. That's design. That's brand. It's marketing's point of view. It's being bold. And it's like the emotional reaction you're able to elicit. And I think that a lot of people are missing that. We also talked a lot about, like, AI and just kind of like Okay. So you did a thing on stage today. You talked with Nikesh. Yeah. Sorry. I was recapping the interview here. Sorry. It's great. Like, it's good. Like, we can fast forward. But I wanna back up. You're the CEO of Figma, publicly traded. Maybe Maybe you can just give the quick elevator pitch on Figma. And when did you start the business? Yeah. We started Figma back in August 2012. And the quick pitch is this is where we wanna make it so that the bets... Best teams in the world can design and create and build the world's best software. We're also used for all sorts of stuff. So marketing, advertising, slides, whiteboarding, diagramming, you know, you name it. Like, if it's visual at all, someone's probably doing it in Figma even if it's not meant for that. People call it a design software. Is that a fair characterization, or does it not capture the full spectrum of what the service is? No. I mean, I think that design is really our center and our core. And, like, when I'm in a product review and talking with the team, we talk about designers. We talk about what they …