Figma Config highlights: ✨AI / Sparkle Menu, 🎨 Slides & 🖥️ New Interface

Figma Config Conference 2024

We only had time to dip in and out but our highlights were AI / Sparkle Menu, Figma Slides & the New Interface

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‍✨ AI / Sparkle Menu

Figma has introduced several AI-powered features aimed at enhancing design efficiency.

AI Make Design: Generate UI Mockups from Text Prompt

This feature allows users to create mobile and web UI mockups by simply inputting a text prompt. It offers different styles and layouts to choose from.

Rewrite, translate, and shorten text with AI Link

Generate written content for designs by providing a text prompt, streamlining the process of adding copy to designs.
Helps in identifying and replacing duplicate content within a design file, ensuring consistency and saving time
Goodbye lorem ipsum. Looking forward to using more realistic copy in our mockups.

Rename Layers

With the context-aware layer naming feature, users can rename and organize all layers in their file in one click.

Auto Make Prototype: Basic Prototyping

This tool automatically converts static mockups into basic interactive prototypes without manual steps, simplifying the prototyping process.

Search with a visual

Upload an image to instantly find an exact match or a similar design your teammates have created.

Remove backgrounds on images

Remove image backgrounds on images with a simple click. No more manually lassoing and erasing.

🎨 FIGMA Slides (Flides)

We love this, but are considering if it’s a good idea for us to build our preso’s in it as often our clients are collaborating with us in Google Slides.

Like PPT/Google slides but Figma addition.
Create slides outline from sticky notes in Figjam.
Create slides from pre-built templates
Directly pull in prototypes into your slide preso and interact

🖥️ New Interface UI

The fresh look for Figma Design just feels nice (and is highly functional)

Resizable and more customisable panels
Streamlined toolbar

These are just a few highlights from the sessions we attended, there were loads more - check them out here.

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Targets

Results

Clients | Help conscious business grow

No destructive clients. Revenue breakdown: 15% Good, 60% Great, 25% Amazing (Here’s what the classifications mean)

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No destructive clients.
Revenue breakdown: 10% Good, 66% Great, 25% Amazing

Client survey metrics

3 /5 value for money
8 / 10 likely to recommend

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3.4 / 5 value for money
8.8 / 10 likely to recommend

Maintain current revenue

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Revenue down 16% YoY

Team | Be the best versions of us

All staff spend 70%+ of their time on clients

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Spent 71% of our time on clients (over by only 76 hours).

Regular, honest check-ins about how we feel

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Stand ups, development sessions, watercooler chats, impact updates and more.

Targeted and clear personal growth, if we are better our clients will be

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Lots of on-the-tools growth, structured learning through weekly Lunch ‘n Learns and Intro to Programming at RMIT.

Improve and increase capability across team

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Elevated our tool nerd level. See here.
Expanding output skills: Market research, Web design, strategy & development, video editing, and automation strategy.

9 day fortnights, with option for 4 day weeks

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40% work 9 day fortnights, 40% part-time hours, 20% standard working hours.

Community | Lift the communities we’re part of

Protest and boycott important issues (Australia Day, Melbourne Cup)

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Yes and yes!

Buy with intention from local and discriminated groups

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We continue to be intentional about our suppliers as outlined in our policy and report the details in the Community chapter of our report. We took it one step further this year with a public call to pledge to audit suppliers in this campaign www.supplier-impact.com

Invest $20k in impact businesses plus $20k of 100% pro bono time

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We delivered some pro bono time but dropped the ball and had no official measurements in place. We also did not invest $20k in impact businesses because of the reduced revenue with Becky on maternity leave.
Sarah personally donated her photography equipment valued at around $7,500 to empower a content and brand producer in the Solomon Islands.

Have a RAP, engaged stakeholders and implemented more change

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Due to competing priorities and limited time (no lack in desire) we de-prioritised our Reconciliation Action Plan as we want to do it meaningfully and have the capacity to follow through. However, we took a few first steps outlined here.

Environment | Crank up the action on climate and environment

Be climate positive at work and at home

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We don’t track our CO2 emissions, rather we take a much more general and high emissions view. However, this year, we didn’t donate to the environment (see above) so we can’t say we countered our CO2.

Donate 5% to the environment

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We fell short here, we didn't make the donation. More details here.

Re-use, recycle and manage dangerous waste

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We continue to implement our hazardous waste policy and are on a continuous learning and improvement journey.
We repair damaged hardware and minimise purchasing of new equipment.
Personally we're all Facebook Marketplace fans.

Advocate for climate change / inspire sustainable living

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Through the work we do at The Business Pickle we have released research, reports and content on climate and the environment. Including open sourcing the Environmental Strategy we created with portable.

Governance | Operate fairly and squarely as an impact business

Maintain current ownership and governance

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Harvey is 100% owned by the Smallchua Family Trust and Rebecca Smallchua is our sole Director.

Share templates, documents, insight into business for good

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We haven’t actively done this publicly, but when people have asked, we have shared. And we’re sharing a series of things as part of this impact report.

Re-use, recycle and manage dangerous waste

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We continue to implement our hazardous waste policy and are on a continuous learning and improvement journey.
We repair damaged hardware and minimise purchasing of new equipment.
Personally we're all Facebook Marketplace fans.

Maintain B Corp score from 134.1 with workers included

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We applied for our B Corp re-certification at the end of this financial year and are pleased to report we achieved the same score (to the decimal point). Wild!

Collaborative online whiteboard for visual brainstorming and teamwork

Beautiful, easy to manage websites built low-code

Collaborating with clients, partners and each other

Collaborative design, presentation, templates.

Highest quality data layer management for consistent tracking across all platforms.

The intuitive research tool to gather meaningful data from people

Content, design, dev and collaboration tool

Digital commenting & feedback workflow tool

Flexible data and workflow platform for content management, analytics, data management.

The benchmark in eCom customer data & marketing automation

Lean frontend toolkit to rapidly build beautiful interactive experiences.

The benchmark in eCom. Create curated, beautiful and responsive experiences - built rapidly and adapt easily.

The benchmark in eCom review management, and it's built in Australia

Scalable CRM great for businesses of all sizes to manage sales, marketing, service and more.

Rapid data analysis on large scale, complex datasets