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🔵🟠🟡 2nd Company Kickoff done & done! Company Kickoff is our company-wide event to share our FY26 plan, connect with each other and get energized for the year ahead. Presented live from Mountain View and broadcast to all our offices around the globe. It was a huge effort by so many partners and teams to bring this to life. ⭐ My talented team supported our Leadership in presentation design for two days of exciting and impactful content informing the company for the plans for the year ahead. Ready for what FY26 brings! #LinkedInDesign #LinkedInLife #Teamwork 

When a designer on your team gets stuck, do you give advice or give your time? As a Principal Product Designer at LinkedIn, I've learned that co-designing together beats talking through problems every time. Here's why spending 1-2 hours in Figma with your team member creates exponential value for both of you. The magic happens when they see your actual thought process, iteration style, and the questions you ask yourself while designing. It's contextual learning that sticks. What's your go-to approach when helping designers break through creative blocks? #ProductDesign #DesignLeadership #UXDesign #ProductDesigner #DesignManager #LinkedIn #UserExperience #DesignThinking #CreativeLeadership #ProductTeam #DesignMentorship #UXLeadership #TechDesign #DesignCareer #ProductStrategy

👋 Hey friends! I made a 1-minute walkthrough of how to set up Figma MCP and get Cursor working smoothly with it. After my last post, a bunch of people asked how I set it up. At first, I thought it was pretty straightforward���but when I tried it again from scratch, I realized there are a few easy-to-miss steps that can totally break the flow. Here are a few things to watch out for: 🤖 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 “𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭” 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞 + 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞-4-𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐭 Yesterday, I was waiting forever for something to generate... and it just kept looping on a basic bug. Turns out I forgot to switch from “Auto” to “Claude-4-sonnet.” Cursor really struggled until I made that change. ✅ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 “𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐯” If you skip this, the link won’t work as expected when you hand it to Cursor. 🛠️ 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠? 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 Not seeing the implementation? Getting weird results or running into an error? Take a screenshot or paste the code into the chat—the Cursor agent can usually help troubleshoot it right there. 🎁 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐩: 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 I asked it to reply in Chinese, which made it easier for me to separate the AI's explanations from the code snippets in the chat. Surprisingly, this made it much easier for me to scan and understand the code—it lowered the learning curve more than I expected. 📎 Here’s the Figma MCP configuration snippet: https://lnkd.in/gZfsSsqG Hope this helps save you a few hours! 😅 View step-by-step walkthrough in the video 👇 Feel free to drop your questions or share what you’re building. Enjoy! #FigmaMCP #Cursor #vibecoding

Hey LinkedIn! Wrote some reflections about my research time with our Ads business. This piece is all about where I believe the UXR role needs to go, in terms of being able to answer complex, multi-faceted research questions that come from the executive level. Check it out, drop me a line, and let me know what you think!

People often ask me how I got to where I am today. I did not study marketing in school, nor did I get an MBA. I thought I'd do something useful with my love for languages (diplomat?), then stories (film producer?), and then realized I needed a viable employment (rent, food, stuff like that) and not an unpaid internship, which landed me at my first job in marketing. 20+ years later, a big part of my job is about influencing and negotiating with people every single day, while making stuff happen with dynamic deadlines and whatever resources I've got at my disposal. That's kind of like being a diplomat and a producer every single day, right? We're introducing our AI-powered job search so that you can dream and imagine a bit while you're planning for your next move, whether you're looking for your first job or a pivot in your career. Dare to discover how a "pipe dream" might just be the thing that leads you to exactly where you're supposed to be...

✨🥇 My book Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair has won the Best Book Award from the Body and Embodiment Section of the American Sociological Association! 🎉 Publishing an academic monograph after transitioning into industry research has been a ride—one full of many sleepless and (seemingly thankless) nights. Straddling multiple passions hasn’t always been easy, but I felt called to do justice by the research and the brilliant women who shared their stories with me as I traveled from LA to NYC to Cape Town and Bahía. Seeing this project through to the end has been one of the most meaningful accomplishments of my career. Thank you to the awards committee, NYU Press, and to the scholars who continue to make room for embodied, intersectional, and joyful work. Excited to see old pals at ASA in Chicago this August! 🖤 #ASA2025 #NaturalTheBook #Sociology #BlackFeminism #Embodiment #AcademicToIndustry #AltAc #SociologistsWorkingEverywhere

🚨Big news today! With 91% of B2B marketers across the world saying that capturing audience attention is a top concern, today we introduced new ad formats and more collaborations to make it easier for brands to innovate with video and connect more effectively with decision-makers. A few highlights: ✅ You can now exclusively reserve the first ad impression a member sees with First Impression Ads ✅ You can reserve the top ad slot of the feed, guaranteeing visibility for higher impressions and stronger recall with Reserved Ads. ✅ Welcome to Paramount Advertising  – the newest publisher to join our CTV Select offering!  Check out the news in my video…Let me know what you’re most excited to check out! #ThePlaceToB2B #B2BMarketing

Normally, every Friday I try to share a Friday Fix .. something in the product that had been causing friction and we fixed it, or a top feature request that is ramping. But today I want to show you the team that makes it happen. The team of builders, product athletes, learners, dreamers and doers .. who are committed to making the member experience better every single day. This picture is from our product offsite this week - where we spent time workshopping, listening to our members, building chairs (will keep this for a later post), and giving back to the community. I am lucky to be working with this awesome group of people - they show up ready to tackle challenges, support each other, and push the boundaries of what’s possible, and I know they are going to keep fixing and improving LinkedIn for all Fridays to come.