Navigating a Design Career with Jenny Wen | Figma at Waterloo

Figma at Waterloo hosted Jenny Wen for an insightful talk about Waterloo and her design career. Originally recorded November 15, 2024, at Den 1880 in Uptown Waterloo.

​Jenny is the outgoing Director of Product Design at Figma, where she supports a portfolio of products including FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Community, two new & top-secret initiatives, and User Growth. She led the design of FigJam, brought it to market, and helped grow it into a whiteboard people love.

​Still, some of her proudest achievements at Waterloo were: making the UW/UX logo that’s still in use, being decorating chair for IRS and making all of E5 6th floor food-themed, and starting a few different Systems class traditions.

​Whether you're just starting out in design or you're already deep into your career, Jenny shares her unique path in the design world — how she built her career and found success & fulfillment through design.

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