Vincent shares his insights on Ludus, a newer entrant in the presentation tool game — betting on collaboration and designer-first features. Tell us about Ludus, what is the elevator pitch and how did it get started? Ludus is a presentation tool for creative professionals. It allows you to create beautiful and interactive presentations in no time and make designers and non-designers collaborate much more easily…

What the heck is kerning, anyway? — Much like cultures and countries, professional industries have their own unique languages. Specialized terminology gives experts a way to define and discuss their work, but it can also intimidate and confuse new entrants to the field. Design has a particularly dense vocabulary, forged through a long history of art, printmaking…

Why I moved my entire workflow to the web — When Chromebooks first came out, it would’ve been a pipe dream to believe they could replace Macs for designers. They were limited by power, software, and screen quality. Even today, few would think to trade out their Apple computer for a Chrome device. I’m here to tell you it’s possible…

Why I’m joining Figma — Over my five years at Square, I’ve seen first-hand how important design is. Tech companies succeed at disrupting age-old industries because they offer a better experience for solving the same problems. An easy example: Uber and Lyft versus taxi cabs. Companies now compete on the power of their customer experience…

Earlier this year I published an open-source version of this Investor Pitch template for use with Figma — a collaborative, web-based design tool. While Figma is better for designing presentations, it lacks a few of the basic presentation software features like presenter’s notes, animations and transitions, video embedding, and PDF…

A new, more powerful interface for sharing Components across your organization — The Team Library in Figma is a set of shared Components across all files in a Team. Components in the Team Library are accessible across any file — existing and new — in any Team project. If a new file is created in our Team, before it has any content…