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Dylan Field ‘Got a Real Kick’ Out of This Week’s Enron Relaunch
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the Figma cofounder said he’s “fascinated” by whether it’s possible to build a new company on the back of the tainted brand.
Either way, it seems, it’s a question of the power of design, something Field and Levy focused on more broadly as their chat went on, talking not just about the creation and evolution of the Figma platform, but also where the cofounder sees the company going in the immediate future. While Field acknowledged the possibility that good design can help bad actors, citing a particularly well-designed magazine that ISIS put out around 2014 or 2015 as an extreme use case, he says all tools have the power to lift people up if they’re made correctly. “They're about making it so there's democratization, and that’s great in many ways, like you talk to people that do image generation with diffusion models and some of them are doing art therapy, which was never possible before.” Still, he added, it’s important to raise the ceiling.
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