💡 Key Topics:

  • Figma's July IPO and the pivot to positioning itself as an AI company, right down to the software description
  • The claim that ~80% of Config talks are now AI, and whether that's a good or exhausting thing
  • What going public adds to the program: a new investor and analyst session
  • Why 3Blue1Brown, a math channel, is speaking at a design conference
  • Last year's product slate (Figma Make, Figma Buzz) and where those tools actually landed
  • Why Figma's AI feels painfully slow, and why some people are leaving for faster platforms
  • The talks that actually stuck: sentient car-factory robots, Nicole McLaughlin's upcycled fashion, the mouth-roof accessibility device
  • The Weavy acquisition and what node-based generative tooling adds to Figma
  • Anthropic on the Config lineup, and the design-tool overlap (they run on Webflow too)
  • The real question: with the IPO and the AI rebrand, is Config still worth the trip?

📖 Chapters:

  • 0:06 — Heading to Config (and forgetting to pack)
  • 0:31 — What Config is, and why the IPO changes it
  • 1:47 — The big theme: AI, AI, AI
  • 2:00 — Is Figma an AI company now?
  • 2:56 — The new investor and analyst session
  • 3:34 — Last year's drops: Make, Buzz, and the rest
  • 4:00 — Why Figma's AI feels painfully slow
  • 4:46 — AI fatigue vs. hoping for real use cases
  • 5:42 — The talks they still remember: robots and upcycled fashion
  • 6:12 — Hardware, accessibility, and Config as a tech conference
  • 6:53 — Content and community-building talks
  • 8:03 — Why Config matters for a B2B design shop
  • 8:45 — The Weavy acquisition
  • 9:28 — Anthropic at Config (and why they're on Webflow)
  • 10:43 — Rating the conference before they go
  • 11:46 — The verdict: a six and a seven

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