Niko

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@nikolasklein

📦 + 🍝 • product manager @figma • @hfggmuend_x • he/him

nikolasklein.de Joined March 2009

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Niko @nikolasklein Oct 26, 2021

Design tools are not just there to let you 'do your job'.

Design tools should allow you to venture into the unknown and uncover ideas you didn't even know you could have.

Niko @nikolasklein 2d

ohhh this was fun playing with!

(cloned the repo into a code layer in @figma)

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andrew blinn in NYC Verified account @disconcision 5d

Drag-and-drop makes the digital graspable, but building it well is fiddly enough that many don’t bother. Declarative Dragging (with Josh Horowitz & Jeff Heer, #uist2026 best paper award), lets you make an element draggable just by listing the states dragging it can reach.

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Niko @nikolasklein 2d

i believe you

Alex Tudun Verified account @AlexTudun 3d

I know where everything is, I promise.

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Niko @nikolasklein 4d

this is like when you see photos of well designed apartments that are too clean to be true

Sofiane Verified account @sofianedesign 5d

who else has this kind of figma file?

lot of great designers here I've been learning from for months

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Niko @nikolasklein 4d

2) wat

socrates Verified account @sochar__ 4d

Using @figma today to build and store agent-first knowledge on making web-based games including a 3D Design System & sample UI with Specs & Code Layers.

Building in Three.js, we needed a safe place for all of our decisions and future games.

The Figma canvas and MCP delivered.

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