For the Figma Team from James
I’ve admired Figma not just as a tool, but as a mindset. One that treats design as infrastructure for creativity.
I start from first principles, break problems down to their structural truths, and rebuild them into systems that make clarity inevitable.
Figma’s mission, connecting teams through shared language and seamless tools, mirrors how I design organizations and experiences. I want to contribute to the next chapter of that story: designing the connective tissue that lets creativity and collaboration flow across every Figma product.
Why Me
Figma’s Cross-Product Foundations team is shaping how multiple products think, interact, and evolve together. That’s exactly the kind of complexity I thrive in. Transforming ambiguity into architecture and alignment. I design frameworks that make collaboration intuitive, scalable, and human.
My Track Record
I’ve led design for systems that connect strategy, operations, and user experience across enterprise and consumer contexts. My work blends depth of reasoning with the clarity of execution — designing for the humans behind the systems. Translating messy operational challenges into design systems that scale without losing personality
- →Translated ambiguous operational problems into design systems that scale without losing personality
- →Built frameworks that balance fan delight with compliance, performance, and business reality
- →Partnered across engineering, research, and marketing to turn product vision into measurable impact
The throughline in my work: I design systems that don’t just work smarter — they feel better.
Selected Work
Preventative Maintenance & Predictive Tools Dashboard (Rapid POC – Figma Make)
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Design & Leadership Philosophy
First Principles over Familiarity
I deconstruct before I design. By stripping problems to their essentials, I can rebuild them into simple, scalable structures.
Design as Infrastructure
Design isn’t a layer it’s the connective system that turns decisions into progress and clarity into culture.
Clarity Is the Deliverable
Every artifact should reduce cognitive load. Clarity builds trust, accelerates momentum, and scales collaboration.
Related Writing
If Figma is designing the future of collaboration, I’d love to help design the systems that make it scale.