Name: #config2025 | Timothy Achumba | 22 comments
Uploaded: 2025-05-22T12:16:49.374Z
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Timothy Achumba
Description: I never imagined that a tweet about mechanical keyboards would reshape my creative career. Sharing my journey at Figma #Config2025, I talked about embracing uncertainty, starting with the tools we know, and finding momentum to turn small ideas into big realities. Watch the full talk here: https://lnkd.in/exVUa_YS

Timothy Achumba

Principal Design Director at Microsoft | Leading Innovation in AI Design

I never imagined that a tweet about mechanical keyboards would reshape my creative career. Sharing my journey at Figma #Config2025, I talked about embracing uncertainty, starting with the tools we know, and finding momentum to turn small ideas into big realities. Watch the full talk here: https://lnkd.in/exVUa_YS

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Transcript

Now, I'd never designed anything physical before. I had no experience in physical part design, very little or basically no 3D modeling skills and 0 understanding of how to manufacture these things. But I was a designer like all of you. I did have one tool that I used every single day to express myself, to take my ideas into something real, and that was Figma. And so I thought maybe that could be a good place to start. And so today I want to talk a little bit about my journey into the space. So the projects I've worked on up until now, and some of the things I've learned along the way. Like how starting without certainty kind of helped me find momentum. How nurturing a small idea into a big, complete system expanded my creativity. But I guess most importantly, how finding purpose in the work gave me courage to pursue. A dream.

Timothy Achumba

Principal Design Director at Microsoft | Leading Innovation in AI Design

Watch the full talk here: https://lnkd.in/exVUa_YS

8 Reactions

Finn Evans

Brand and Creative Strategy Director

Inspiring as always mate 🫡

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Noah Levin

VP of Design at Figma

So good!!!!

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Chichi Eruchalu

Leadership Coach, Faciliator & Consultant for Tech & Scale-Ups | Fixing Excellence Leaks™ in Fast-Growing Teams | Speaker | Creator of The Excellence Effect™ | 📩 Raising the Standard

This is brilliant Timothy, was waiting for when you shared the full talk. Look forward to watching it in full. Keeping shining!

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💻 Luke Thorp

Architect | Speaker | Data and AI at Databricks

Awesome, your stage presence is fantastic mate. Great to see you doing well.

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Benedikt Lehnert

Founder of 74West, Advisor to CEOs and executives worldwide, Chief Design Officer, and Board Member, Entrepreneurship & Design Fellow at Princeton, Host of #PoetsAndThinkers