Yuhki Yamashita, Chief Product Officer at Figma — Verified Quotes & Interview Transcripts

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Release Notes 2026: February Edition | Figma

February 27, 2026 · 📺 Figma

Release Notes, EP-006 → Recent launches → Q&A with Figma’s Chief Product Officer Host: David Curran (Education Learning Specialist, Figma) Demo lab (step by step here → https://bit.ly/46TMJkT) Mallory Dean (Designer Advocate, Figma) Made in Figma: Akbar Mirza (Developer Advocate, Figma) Jamie Haberman (Product Designer, Figma) Soundharya Muthukrishnan (Product Designer, Figma) Nile Phillips (Software Engineer, Figma) Figma update: Mari Kong (Product Marketing Manager, Figma) Kaitie Chambers (Advocate, Figma) In conversation: Yuhki Yamashita (Chief Product Officer, Figma) 00:00 Intro 01:0…

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Data-Driven by Design with Yuhki Yamashita and Margaret-Ann Seger | Sigsum 2025

October 01, 2025 · 📺 Statsig

Figma CPO Yuhki Yamashita and Statsig Head of Product Margaret-Ann Seger dive into how data and design intersect to shape ...

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Behind the Product and Culture w/ Figma CPO Yuhki Yamashita

July 14, 2025 · 📺 Off Topic / オフトピック

(0:00) Opening (0:40) Visiting Figma's office! (1:40) How they led up to the new product launch (6:50) Figma's culture (9:00) The ...

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Config 2025: Rituals & skills in the age of AI with Yuhki Yamashita & Shishir Mehrotra

May 25, 2025 · 📺 Figma

Config 2025: Figma's conference for people who build products Hear from Figma Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita and Grammarly CEO and Coda founder Shishir Mehrotra as they share practical tips for approaching product development when building with AI.

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Config London 2025: Figma product launch keynote (Dylan Field & Yuhki Yamashita) | Figma

May 14, 2025 · 📺 Figma

Config2025, live in London. CEO Dylan Field and CPO Yuhki Yamashita take the stage to walk through how we're rethinking ...

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CPO of Figma on Building Lovable Product

March 05, 2025 · 📺 Product Faculty

In this episode, I sit down with Yuhki Yamashita, Chief Product Officer at Figma, for an insightful conversation on product leadership, design collaboration, and building successful teams. Yuhki shares powerful insights from his journey from Microsoft to YouTube to Uber and finally to Figma, revealing how his experiences shaped his product philosophy. Learn about Figma's innovative approaches to cross-functional collaboration, including the "$100 voting" technique that transforms team decision-making.

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How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)

December 05, 2024 · 📺 First Round Capital

Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma, leading the product and design teams. Previously, he was a product and ...

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How Figma Implements Designing as a Team

September 14, 2024 · 📺 JAPAN PIVOT

【EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS】・Learn from Figma's Chief Product Officer about his design philosophy and how design helps solve problems. ・Find out how Figma implements designing something as a team into company culture. ・Discover how Yuhki thinks about putting individuality into design, and what is really important when designing a product. ・Hear Yuhki explain what gets lost between design and product release and how he wants to change it. ・Yuhki goes into depth what can be learned from Japanese culture in terms of design. 【Timetable】 00:00 Highlights 1:15 About Figma. 2:27 How Yuhki thinks about desi…

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The Future of Product Design w/ Figma's Yuhki Yamashita

August 30, 2024 · 📺 The Startup Podcast

Yuhki Yamashita, one of the world's top product design disruptors and Chief Product Officer at Figma, returns in this bonus ...

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Config 2024: Rituals to unbreak planning (Shishir Mehrotra & Yuhki Yamashita) | Figma

August 06, 2024 · 📺 Figma

Config 2024: Rituals to unbreak planning (Shishir Mehrotra & Yuhki Yamashita) Last year, Yuhki and Shishir gave a popular talk exploring rituals for having great meetings and this year, we’re back with a sequel on another meaty topic: planning. When we talk to PMs and leaders across the industry, so many people tell us that “planning is broken.” This prompted us to go study how many world-class companies approach planning, and we’re here to share our insights — as well as teams’ unique rituals — that will hopefully help “unbreak” planning at your company. Read the script and take a peek behi…

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Config APAC 2024: Figma executive fireside chat (Dylan Field, Yuhki Yamashita, Kyle Wu) | Figma

August 01, 2024 · 📺 Figma

Hear from Dylan Field (Co-founder & CEO, Figma) and Yuhki Yamashita (Chief Product Officer, Figma) discuss topics ranging from product, design, building a company, company vision, company culture, and more. Moderated by: Kyle Wu, Senior UX Designer, 6sense ____________________________________________________ Find us on ⬇️ X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/figma Instagram: / figma LinkedIn: / figma TikTok: / figma Figma forum: https://forum.figma.com/

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Inside How Figma Builds AI Products | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO Figma)

April 28, 2024 · 📺 Peter Yang

My guest today is Yuhki Yamashita, Chief Product Officer of Figma. Yuhki and I talked about how Figma: - Created a culture where ...

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