Credo — Clara Ujiie

CLARA UJIIE

Creative maker & design generalist with interdisciplinary background, based in California.

Projects

Jira Widget
Social Editorial
Times Square Takeover
Variable Fonts Playground
Figma Tips Videos
Handwritten Font
Japan Launch
Schema by Figma
Figma Migration Guide
Canvas Design System
Workday Home
Research Suite

About
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Experience

Figma
Design Advocate
2021—25

Workday
Design Operations Lead
2019—21

Workday
Product Designer
2016—19

TIBCO
Product Design Intern
2015—16

UCSD
Design Intern
2013–14

Speaking

Communicating Fidelities
Figma Conversations
Feb 2025

Bridging the Gap: Defining Ready for Dev
Figma Conversations
Feb 2025

Figma SKO
Jan 2025

Remix, Reuse, Repeat
Spark, Red Ventures
May 2024

Migration Best Practices
Figma livestream
Apr 2024

Figma Press Conference
Jan 2024

Supercharging Your Workflow
Design offsite, NBCU
Dec 2023

Figma Tips and Tricks
Design Day, SoFi
Aug 2023

Conference Co-host
Config
Jun 2023

Designer x Developer Panel
Config
Jun 2023

Collaboration Tactics
Design All-hands, Amazon
May 2023

Migration at Scale
Figma livestream
May 2023

Design Systems in Figma
Design Summit, Blizzard
May 2023

Design Community Night Host
Friends of Figma SF
Apr 2023

Prototype Testing for Best in Class Product Development
Figma livestream
Feb 2023

Conference Co-host
Schema by Figma
Oct 2022

Design Event Host
Figma meetup
Oct 2022

Workflow Hacks
Figma Japan Launch
Jul 2022

Migration Best Practices
Figma livestream
Jun 2022

Building Your First Widget
Figma livestream
Jun 2022

Variable Fonts
Figma livestream
May 2022

Widgets in Figma & FigJam
Config
May 2022

Conference Co-host
Config
May 2022

Everyone is a Designer
Dev by Design
May 2022

Figma Like the Pros
Figma livestream
Feb 2022

Figma Hacks & How-tos
Tencent Design Week
Dec 2021

Deeper Into Branching
Figma livestream
Nov 2021

Conference Co-host
Schema by Figma
Oct 2021

Flexible Design Systems Empower the Community
Into Design Systems
Sept 2021

Flexin’ Figma
CapitalOne Design Week
Sept 2021

Kickstarting Your Projects in Figma
Sego Lily Hacks
Aug 2021

Career AMA
SMASH panel
Jul 2021

Intro to Figma
Girls in Tech Hack
Jun 2021

Prototyping Tips n’ Tricks
Friends of Figma event
Apr 2021

Conference Co-host
Config
Apr 2021

Migrating to Figma: Taking the Stress Out of Your Move
Figma livestream
Sept 2019

Motion Design Matters
Workday Design Week
May 2018

Scaling Your Design System with Prototyping Kits
Framer Sessions
Oct 2017

Companies I’ve worked with

Adobe
Amazon
Atlassian
Block
CapitalOne
Coupang
Disney
Dropbox
Forbes
Fujitsu
Google
IBM
Instrument
Intel
JPMC
Kakao
Lyft
Metlife
McKinsey
Nike
NYT
Oracle
PayPal
Robinhood
Shopify
Snap
Stripe
Tencent
Tesla
Turo
Walmart
& more

Last Updated 25.06.14

CREDO

If we’re working together, I hope these notes make our collaboration smoother and more transparent.¹ These are the standards I aim for at work — what helps me do my best. Every preference or strength can also be a weakness, so I’ve included some counterpoints too. Feedback and new perspectives are always welcome.

Death before thrash

What’s the simplest way to share this, in the right place?
Fewer back-and-forths = happier inboxes
Aim for visibility: right audience, right context, right level of detail.²
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” ³
Effort to be concise (and use of cmd+f) is always noticed.
Banter is great; irrelevant info, less so.

Counter:

Sometimes, there just isn’t time to be perfectly concise.
Not everyone can (or should) dig through all the docs before chiming in.
"Sometimes someone without baggage has the needed perspective to move a project forward, without all the context." ⁴
“Banter” and “noise” is too subjective.

Feedback, please

I gravitate toward work and teams where feedback is candid, timely, and actionable.
I’m most energized when there’s a strong feedback loop; it makes everything better, faster.

Counter:

Not everyone is a natural at giving direct feedback (and that’s okay).
Sometimes the best opportunities don’t have feedback systems in place, yet.

Commit mindfully

I value self-awareness and follow-through over vague promises or indecision.
Clear commitments move things forward. “I’ll send a draft by Tuesday” or saying no⁵ is better than “I might be able to help.”

Counter:

Predicting workloads isn’t always easy.

I don’t always hit my own mark, but these are the conditions where I do my best work. If you spot inconsistency or hypocrisy, please let me know.

What about you? How do you like to work? Maybe swapping credos is the fastest way to see if we’d get along. Say hello and share yours. I’d love to compare notes.

Inspired by Lily Konings, “How to work with Lily”
Wes Kao, “The unspoken skill of finesse”
Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) “Lettres provinciales”
Forgot where I read this, but it didn't come from my brain
Lenny Rachitsky, “On saying no”

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