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Dylan Field

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Figma, Inc.

Search every verified Dylan Field interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, made several public appearances in October 2026 to discuss the company’s product developments and his views on AI’s role in design and software creation. At the first-ever Config India conference in Bengaluru, Field announced new Figma features including Code Layers, Specs, and Payload, and stated that the company is not building its design agent to replace designers but to empower them. He also discussed Figma’s expansion in India, noting the company opened a Bengaluru office about a year prior and is scaling it rapidly. In interviews and podcast appearances, Field repeatedly articulated his belief that "design is the new code," arguing that as AI coding models improve, the value in product development shifts to design, brand, and user experience decisions. He said AI is lowering the floor for creation by democratizing production across code, design, and video, but added that the ceiling for what humans can achieve has not changed. Field also commented on the "SaaS apocalypse" discussion, saying software as a category is not binary and that companies can sustain themselves by specializing and knowing their audience. He expressed optimism about AI’s future while acknowledging challenges, stating that guardrails are not yet in place and calling for more focus on safety and alignment.

Recent appearances

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

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 All-In Podcast

    (0:00) Dylan Field joins the show: Figma’s origin story and mission (3:16) Adobe’s $20B deal blocked: inside the antitrust fight (12:29) Is AI killing SaaS? Frontier Companies vs. Figma, the “SaaS apocalypse” (18:52) Creativity in the AI era: why taste and boldness win (36:02) Human agency, AI’s promise, and what comes next Thanks to our partners for making this possible! As wealth grows, complexity compounds. Between investments, tax strategy and estate planning, coordinating it all can feel like a full-time job. Creative Planning can help with the heavy lifting. Learn more at: https://Crea…

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  • Startup Street | Figma CEO Dylan Field On AI, Design & India's Startup Ecosystem | CNBC-TV18

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 CNBC-TV18

    How is AI reshaping design, coding and the future of engineering? Figma CEO Dylan Field shares his perspective on India's fast-evolving digital ecosystem, the growing importance of design, and why AI is changing how products are built. From AI-powered design tools to India's digital-first businesses, catch the latest insights on innovation, technology and the startup ecosystem on Startup Street. #StartupStreet #Figma #DylanField #ArtificialIntelligence #Startups #CNBCTV18Digital Follow Every Breaking Story LIVE 🔴 Watch News18 LIVE 24x7: https://youtube.com/live/P857H4ej-MQ SUBSCRIBE to our C…

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  • Config India 2026: Figma product launch keynote (Dylan Field, CEO & Co-founder, Figma)

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 Figma

    Join us live from India for the latest from Figma, and discover what's next for the way teams design, build, and collaborate together. 00:00 Intro 01:37 Opening remarks by Dylan Field 11:40 Code Layers 26:47 Design Systems 35:36 Specs 53:32 Payload 1:04:27 Closing remarks Catch up on Config India launches: https://figma.bot/ConfigIndia_Recap Learn more about Specs: https://figma.bot/ConfigIndia_specs Learn more about code layers: https://figma.bot/ConfigIndia_codelayers Learn more about Payload: https://figma.bot/ConfigIndia_payload ____________________________________________________ Find…

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  • Le Chonk, Buffet's Just Like You, TJ Parker Returns, Dylan Field Joins

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:05:10 "Digger" Review 00:06:42 AI Mods Run into Copyright Law 00:16:26 The Case Against AI Job Doom 00:28:29 Warren Buffett Discovers YouTube 00:35:08 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 00:49:42 Mistral Launches Le Chonk 00:55:19 Greg Fleming discusses his career in financial services and his role as CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, which provides comprehensive advice to wealthy families. He explains the firm’s growth, approach to private-market investing and diversification, and use of AI to improve advisor productivity while preserving personalized client relationships. 01:17:40 TJ Parker discuss…

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  • Why Design Is the New Code | Dylan Field

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 MTS

    Figma Co-Founder and CEO Dylan Field discusses the general availability release of Figma's design agent, explaining how AI is lowering the floor for creation while preserving the value of human craft and judgment. He also shares his long-term vision for code as a canvas material and the future of human-AI collaboration. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ⁠https://lovable.dev.⁠ Turn ideas into software people love. -- ⁠https://x.com/zoink⁠ -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠  / mtslive⁠⁠   YouTube |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠…

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  • SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong, Intel's Comeback, Meta Releases Coding Agent, Dylan Field Joins

    August 06, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:08:35 OpenAI Details Hugging Face Incident 00:17:11 SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong 00:24:40 Nikita Bier Steps Down at X 00:30:19 Google Rewires AI Leadership 00:34:50 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 00:40:49 Intel's Comeback 01:01:26 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 01:04:37 Aditya Agarwal, managing partner at South Park Commons, discusses its new $575 million fund and the growing ambition of founders building capital-intensive deep-tech companies. He also covers founder dilution, AI-assisted application review, Series A fundraising, scientific diligence, and the importance of technical progress and rapid growth. 01:20:35…

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  • Figma Is Betting on AI's Next Workflow

    August 06, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

    Figma delivered another quarter of accelerating growth as customers deepen their investment in AI-powered design and development tools. CEO Dylan Field joins Bloomberg to discuss how enterprises are adapting their AI workflows and why Figma is investing aggressively in AI agents and code generation. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:    / @bloombergtech     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here:    • 'Bloomberg Tech' With Ed Ludlow Full Episodes     Get…

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  • Inside Figma Config 2026: Dylan Field, OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, MIT & IVP on the Future of AI

    July 12, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

    What actually happens when the world's top AI builders, designers, and investors all gather in one place? At Figma Config 2026, I sat down with some of the biggest names shaping the future of AI, software, robotics, and design. Guests include: • Dylan Field, CEO, Figma • Ian Silber, Head of Product Design, OpenAI • Brian Ringley, Distinguished Product Manager & Human-Robot Interaction Designer, Boston Dynamics • Niko Klein, Product Manager, Figma • Holly Herndon, AI Artist • Zach Lieberman, MIT Media Lab • Shreyas Garg, Partner, IVP We discuss: • Why AI shouldn't do your thinking • The futu…

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  • Figma CEO Dylan Field on Why the Market Has Design Backwards

    July 02, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

    Figma Co-Founder and CEO Dylan Field joins Sourcery behind-the-scenes at Day 0 of Config 2026, aka the “Coachella for design,” just before 10,000 attendees arrived. The headline going around is that “design is dead” and AI has turned it into a commodity. Field's argument is that the market has this backwards. Anyone can prompt a model into the average, and in a world flooded with templated software the average does not stand out, so taste and a real point of view are what separate the products people actually use from everything else. He also points to a shift in who is on the platform. Engi…

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  • Hard Fork Live: Robots, Revelry and the A.I. Revolution

    June 26, 2026 · 📺 Hard Fork

    Missed our live show? As promised, here is Hard Fork's full live event in San Francisco! A few weeks ago, we took the show on the road, but not too far from home. Our evening in San Francisco featured exclusive interviews with CEOs, lawyers, podcasters and robots. Whether you couldn’t make it out to California or if just want to relive the chaos, here's the full show. Guests: Satya Nadella, chairman and chief executive of Microsoft. Phil Mohun, executive director of Node. Cindy Cohn, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dylan Field, chief executive and co-founde…

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  • Figma Unveils Full-Stack Canvas for the AI Era

    June 25, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Technology

    Collaborative design firm Figma unveiled a platform overhaul for the AI era at its annual Config conference in San Francisco, transforming its workspace into what it calls an "intelligent canvas" for full-stack digital creation. Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:    / @bloombergtechnology     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here:    • 'Bloomberg Tech' With Ed Ludlow     Get the latest in tech from Silicon Valley and aro…

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  • Virtual Fireside Chat with Dylan Field

    June 25, 2026 · 📺 Brown University

    When a Brown University sophomore starts a company because he believes design should be as collaborative and accessible as ...

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think that there are more modes for software than are implied by the SAS apocalypse. And it's not like software as a category is binary, good or bad. There are plenty of other ways that you can make sure that you're able to sustain yourself long term and have a growing business long term as a software company or app layer company. And part of it is yes, if you're as specialized as possible on a target audience and ”

“Are the right guardrails in place? No. And I think that we are getting there. I hope we get there faster. I applaud every company that's on the frontier on the model side and is being transparent about what's happening. Figuring out how to focus more on safety, cyber, you know, alignment, paper clipping, bio, like there's so many areas that we have to get right. I think that the rhetoric I'd like to see is less of th”

“I think that in general, people should not give up on their own thinking. They cannot give that to the model. And I see so many people that are essentially looking for the shortcut, trying to make it so that they can have maybe less than Figma, more outside of Figma, but folks are eager for the model to automate for them, for the model to think for them. And I think that the more important thing you can do is to actu”

“Well, in the past I felt that in the years past I said AI will lower the floor and raise a ceiling and I had to kind of correct myself cuz I'm like actually that's not what we're seeing yet. We're seeing it lower the floor. It's more democratized to do something. But the ceiling doesn't seem to have changed. And despite all the amazing math results in the formal domain results where you're able to formally verify som”

“I think that overall the market's trying to determine who are the AI losers, who are the AI winners, and they're really working through it live with the world. And I think a lot of companies will look back at this time and go, 'Oh man, like how did people think that they were AI losers and they'd be destroyed or victims of AI as you put it?' But at the same time, I think that we're in this in between period. People a”

“I think that a lot of software will do just fine or actually even amazing. And since like what are the properties of that software? Well, I think that network effects matter. I think network effects can show up not just in social in human situations but also in like marketplace liquidity. That is its own network effect. I think the sort of distribution of customer base matters. And I would say that boring software is”

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