carly

carly

words in brooklyn, she/her

About

Am I doing this right?

Writing

2024

The Prompt is a magazine from Figma exploring AI, design, and code. A collaboration between Figma’s Story and Brand Studios, we chatted with Config speakers, Figma employees, and industry experts to capture this moment in time, and where they think we’re headed next. Available online and in print.

Story Studio: Amber Bravo, Alia Fite, Jenny Xie, Carly Ayres; Brand Studio: Jefferson Cheng, Maria Chimishkyan, Damien Correll; Design: Chloe Scheffe; Illustrations: Jiyung Lee, Kyle Platts, Lena Weber, Thomas Merceron; Photos: Actual Source

2023

Tech is what brings so many of us together. But in an age of over saturation and digital uncertainty, 24 product builders weigh in on what it takes to keep the spark alive.

2023

New norms call for new terms. Our new unofficial work term glossary uncovers how work defined us and how we define it.

2023

An exploration of play through a range of essays and visual commissions, The Playbook is a print publication developed by It’s Nice That and Figma to showcase the benefits of spontaneous thinking and curiosity through design.

2023

Here, a design manager tells us about his latest project, a book covering 150 years of keyboard design.

2023

Plugins, widgets, and tooling — the second edition of our series on the future of design systems.

2022

Wrap up 2022 with some self-reflection and set creative intentions for the year ahead with Figma’s Persona Quiz.

2022

A conversation with the Linear web team about why they made their Figma Design files their homepage and unintentionally threw the Figma party of the year.

2022

At its best, automation liberates designers to solve real problems for the users they represent. While the standardization of design decisions ...

2020

I’m a firm believer that the most important thing you can do for your career is: Talk to someone. Anyone.

2020

We ask people who design and build Google products what they consider to be good design.

2020

A look back at the year’s most resilient design projects

2017

Round-table-style discussion about design ethics.

2015

Royal College of Art grad James Shaw crafts extruded-plastic furniture with a historical bent.

2015

Red Hook's DLV Designs on how it transforms 1,800 eggs into a unique finish for interiors, furniture and household objects

Projects

2019

Designers Nicole Ginelli and Carly Ayres share valuable advice and insights into the future of design in the digital age.

2019

The promising young studio Hawraf is shutting down. The four partners decided to go out by publishing comprehensive documents about how they ran their business.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
2022 — 2022
2019 — 2022
New York

Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google. We work across teams to create content and produce events that showcase Google’s design work and champion innovators in our field.

2016 — 2019
Partner & Co-founder at HAWRAF
Brooklyn, New York

HAWRAF was a design and technology design studio that had a hell of a run.

Education

2009 — 2013

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