CONFIG is Figma's annual design conference, where the Community gets together for two days to learn about new feature releases from Figma and hear talks from industry leaders. Last year, Figma launched:

• Variables: easily maintain your design system and for individuals to create and update more dynamic prototypes.
• Advanced prototyping: leveraging variables through expressions and conditions to make the prototyping experience a lot more lightweight than before
• Dev Mode: beta launch to allow Engineering counterparts only to view Figma files ready for development.
• and many more…

There were actually so many ✨ insightful ✨  sessions that revolved around building a community-centric product that brings customer delight 🖤

Highlighting my favorite session from each day, I wanted to share some learnings and takeaways from the conference:

Putting Joy on the Roadmap:

• Pay attention to detail throughout the end-to-end user experience
• Take inspiration from the physical world during your day-to-day life.
• What are some High Impact but low-effort projects? Those are the projects we can prioritize to bring delight to our customers

Fun Fact: I brought the Polaroid widget as a mini activity to my team while sharing some product learnings from this session which made it extra memorable for them.

Why should we build what we build:

1. Customers: all crafts should be customer obsessed.
2. Service: He took the word service very literally and shared that we should all understand how our product can provide a service to our customers
   1. Ex: Make a great design tool vs help people design better
3. Shape: Look at building each feature like a part of the puzzle. I personally really echo this bullet as I personally believe a brilliant product is simple yet powerful in solving a specific user need.

I am very glad to be part of this empathy-filled community for the two days and would 100% take all the learning to my day-to-day as a Product Manager no matter where I go 🤍

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To wrap up this blog, and here is a link to all the session recordings from last Config on Youtube. If you were there or watched the youtube recordings, Comment 👇🏻 and let me know which session is your favorite and why! Sign up for this year’s CONFIG if you want to attend in person this year: https://config.figma.com/

As always, I'm here to help YOU navigate your career so feel free to check out PM Happy Hour or contact me directly via https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunny-sun/.

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