Inside Marketing Design

How Figma's Brand Studio team enables anyone in the company to create brand assets in Figma, while still maintaining quality and consistency.

Show Notes

In this episode Remilla (Senior Brand Designer) and Damien (Creative Director) give us the behind-the-scenes details on collaborating with the product team on new feature launches, designing sub-brands, and what it's like having fellow designers as a target audience (we're a critical bunch after all...)

LINKS

Remilla's Figma Community profile 

Remilla on Twitter

Damien on Instagram

Check out Figma

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Introduction to Figma

1:25 - Brand Studio team structure

3:45 - Collaboration with product design on feature launches

6:00 - Where a new project starts

10:20 - The design process for marketing Figma's new commenting feature

13:50 - Brand enablement and review

16:30 - The Figma brand pillars

18:45 - Figma's approach to sub-brand design

22:45 - Role responsibilities for Damien and Remilla

27:00 - Project management

29:50 - Making time to work on the brand itself

31:40 - Web design & development at Figma

34:05 - Metrics of success and iterating

40:00 - Marketing design system and style guides

44:15 - Using Figma at Figma!

46:10 - What Remilla and Damien are most proud of

48:35 - Wrap up

What is Inside Marketing Design?

Every episode of Inside Marketing Design will give you an in-depth look at the processes, principles and people who make marketing design happen at a different tech company.