‘We make people feel something as a result of our work:’ Figma’s chief design officer on how to build impactful technology

Loredana Crisan on preventing burnout, why exercise is a secret weapon, and how her training as a classical musician has informed her work as a designer.

Loredana Crisan, Figma Chief Design Officer [Images: courtesy Figma]

BY Nicole Gull McElroy

Loredana Crisan says her relationship with creativity started when she was 7 years old, sitting with her mother in her family’s kitchen in Bucharest, Romania. “The question she posed was, ‘Do you want to learn piano,’ and as a kid I was like, ‘Yes!’ –– probably because I was singing in the house.” From then on, says Crisan, she never stopped playing. In fact, she ended up as a student studying classical music in a conservatory. 

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