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Rob Alderson

Sheffield
As seen in: Financial Times, Flipboard, WePresent, Dezeen, Creative Bloq, Campaign (UK), It's Nice That, Design Week, The Sheffield Tribune
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Figma’s Loredana Crisan talks taste, last-minute decisions and the art of prioritisation

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By Rob Alderson
| It's Nice That Verified
RA: When Claude Design launched, there was a lot of talk about what it meant for Figma. Do you think tools like this challenge your place in the industry? LC: We certainly believe that AI raises the floor. And we’re adding AI to Figma, but we’re adding it in a way that has a different point of view than many of these tools. Our goal is not to generate more work, but to create better work. AI becomes a tool in the human arsenal, but it’s one of the tools they can use.
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Ghosting to money worries - report outlines freelance challenges

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By Rob Alderson
| Design Week Verified
A new report into freelance life paints a challenging picture of self-employment. Leapers is an organisation that supports freelancers’ mental health, and every year it produces an annual survey that covers everything from money, to clients, to health and wellbeing. The findings make interesting reading for those who work as freelancers but also for companies who employ them, especially as more design teams shift to models that include more freelance staff.
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“Pursue your grandest dreams” - An hour with Motto’s Sunny Bonnell

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By Rob Alderson
| Design Week Verified
Many of the best stories have inauspicious starts. Early struggles make the subsequent success all the more glorious. Branding agency Motto was founded in 2005 by friends Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger. Bonnell was studying to be a vet, Hansberger training as a journalist, but they both dropped out of college to focus on building a new business from a warehouse in a small town in South Carolina.
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