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Figma: A Design Powerhouse

Posted by creelyle22 
· Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 
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Origins

Has anyone here heard of Figma? I hadn’t heard of it until a few years ago. But If I were to ask if you have heard of Adobe, I bet many of you know what it is. Figma is a design platform that is a web-based design tool that allows users to create, share, and test digital products and services. It is often looped into the same group around designers when talking about Adobe and its many products. Figma’s founder Dylan Field was just 20 years old when he and his classmate Evan Wallace released it to the public. While Field was working as an intern for Flipboard and LinkedIn he was spotted to have great potential. Which they most certainly were not wrong. Against Fields’ parents’ wishes he decided to drop of college at Brown University to participate in the Thiel Fellowship program which led to him earning a $100,000 grant from Peter Thiel co-founder of PayPal.

Future Trends

It took 4 years of testing and development before it was released to market in 2016. Figma has a flexible feature set and a freemium pricing scale that helped take some market away from Adobe. Figma saw great success during the pandemic due to so many having much more free time to learn about things and software that interested them. Figma soon grew to 850 employees and was set to be bought by Adobe for $20 billion. However, this deal soon fell through in 2023 and both companies agreed to terminate their merger agreement. As of the summer of 2024 Figma was on track to hit $700 million annual recurring revenue. Nevertheless, Figma is a huge powerhouse when it comes to general design and I have found it is incredibly powerful at website design, something that think Adobe is lacking. It is a very great resource to know both design software’s because there are things that one does better than the other.

If you would like to learn more please visit https://www.figma.com/about/

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Moziah Bridges – Mo’s Bows

Posted by nicholshm21 
· Sunday, October 24th, 2021 
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Mo’s Bows is one of the most successful stories of a young entrepreneur in recent years. Moziah Bridges, the founder, started the company when he was only nine years old in his grandmother’s kitchen in Memphis, Tennessee. The idea stemmed from a desire to create a fashionable accessory that was different but sharp-looking. Moziah Bridges graduated from high school in 2020 and plans to study fashion design in college. Bridges have sold more than $700,000 of bow ties and men’s accessories and his company currently has five employees including, the CEO, a.k.a mom, and Granny who taught Moziah how to sew. Mentored by Shark Tank’s Daymond Jones, Moziah Bridges continues to grow Mo’s Bows.

Mo’s Bows is now an internationally recognized business and has led to Moziah Bridges being recruited for both events and contests. Bridges were inducted into the Tennessee State Museum Costume and Textile Institute in 2014 which brought his career to new heights. He served as the fashion correspondent for the 2015 NBA draft leading to a contract in 2017 with the NBA to make custom neck-ties for all 30 teams. He has made a personal bow-tie for Obama deemed “Obama Blue”, even made an appearance on The Steve Harvey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20, CBS ​This Morning,​ Disney Channel, and Shark Tank​. Bridges’ success is not limited to the world of influence but also his partnering with companies like Cole Haan, Bloomingdale’s, the Home Shopping Network, and Neiman Marcus. 

Moziah Bridges has even turned his gaze back to his roots to help other aspiring students with his Go Mo scholarship fund. The Scholarship fund is intended to help send Memphis kids to summer camp and has sent more than 50. Bridges even has aspirations in the realm of design hoping to expand his repertoire to new designs and skills by entering into the 2021 Memphis Fashion Week Fashion Show. Even his spare time revolves around designs with things like thrift shopping, sketching, and drawing. Moziah Bridges is not just an icon in the fashion world but an inspiration to other young entrepreneurs that age is not an obstacle but an advantage to get ahead. He inspires me to go after my hunches and pursue my dreams.

 

https://mosbowsmemphis.com/shop-1/ols/all?page=3&sortOption=descend_by_created_at

 

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Content Creating in 2004 – Ashley Qualls

Posted by nakhlacn17 
· Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 
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Ashley Qualls was not out to become a millionaire when she launched her tutorial site whateverlife.com on the fledgling Internet of 2004. Catering primarily to other young teens her age, the 14-year-old posted free graphics she’d created, building a community around sharing free web layouts and graphics for anyone with an interest in design. Qualls later expanded the site to share free MySpace layouts and HTML tutorials so other teens could build their presence on the popular social media platforms of the times. The site itself developed into a social platform of sorts, with other users sharing their own designs.

The concept of sharing designs over the internet and connecting with other individuals with similar hobbies is very familiar to most millennials today, but it was fresh enough in the early 2000s that Qualls, by unintentionally tapping into a fresh market, gained almost immediate success.

From the beginning, Ashley had perceived the site as a hobby; everything available on her site was free and it had all spun out of her own personal interests. Once she realized she could start making money off what she was marketing, she began hosting ads on the website. Although this was her only source of revenue, Ashley generated so much web traffic due to her content that by age 17 she had become a millionaire.

As social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have taken off, Qualls has maintained the site, increasing its social community appeal, and it is still incredibly successful today. An early lesson in internet content creation, Qualls’ instant success might not occur in the same quick way today as it did back in the early days of the Internet, but the options available to current bloggers and designers are perhaps now more plentiful than ever.

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