Figma's IPO valued the company at roughly $20 billion more than Adobe's acquisition offer, marking a watershed moment for design as an industry. Top designers are now as scarce as AI engineers, yet rapid AI tooling threatens the craft-based nature of design work.
Yeah, figma, it was awesome experience. So they. They went public last week, which, you know, the big deal for figma, and it was a pretty big, explosive launch, too. I think they increased total valuation by like $20 billion just within 48 hours. Yeah. Which is greater than the total sum that Adobe tried to buy them for just a few years earlier. So it's a while to see all that happen, but I think the world kind of said like, hey, this isn't just about figma's ipo. This is. This is design's ipo. It's a moment where we're all going to. Some of us have already known this, but design plays a very critical part in what differentiates us and what helps our brands grow and sort of what helps our products become successful. But now it's like, it's. It's clear that designers trying to hire a designer right now is almost near impossible because everyone wants the best ones. And so they're almost as hard to get as sort of AI engineers. And that's just that personally, for me, is really fun to watch because they were getting not just into what we're building and building faster with AI and agentic agents, the craft. And the craft is ironically, very human. Led.
