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Config '24 · 15 min

Content Design × AI: A Beginning, Not the End

AI won't take your content design job… unless you let it. In this talk, Figma's Ryan Reid shares their take on the role of AI tools in content design—why they represent a new beginning for the craft, and how you can use them to your advantage.

Ry mid-sentence on a darkened conference stage, in a black polo with a clicker in hand and a small orange Config pin on the collar
Config '23 · 25 min

Content Designers: It's Time to Design

Yesterday, they were writers. Today, they're content designers. What changed? Not much—and that's a problem. With more tools, programs, and systems letting broader audiences design, content designers must evolve their skillsets to remain essential. Ry digs into the near future of the craft—one in which content designers are expected to… well, design.

Ry presenting in a black tee, in front of a slide carrying their own portrait beside “Ryan Reid — UX Writer, Figma, they/them”, with the same name and title repeated in lower-third captions
Config '22 · 20 min

Working with UX Writers in Figma

Figma's UX writing team shares their favorite tips for designers on using Figma to deepen the creative bond with writers, and build more intuitive, delightful products together. (I wrote big chunks of this talk, but got sick and couldn't present.)

The Config title slide for “Working with UX writers in Figma”, listing four speakers — Chris Baty, Sylvie Kim, Andrew Schmidt and Ryan Reid — beside blocks of pink, blue, green and yellow