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Lauren Budorick

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Lauren Budorick

@lbudorick

building @figma draw. tell me all of your feedback — we're only just getting started!

pacifica, ca

Joined February 2010

Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Mar 29, 2022
I am super excited that I get to share my birthday with the 0th birthday of my favorite thing I’ve worked on at @figma ever — R̶T̶L̶ bidirectional text support! What does it take to adapt a text layout engine for text that reads in both directions? WELL: 🧵
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Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Mar 28, 2023
Last spring my team at @figma finally took on an area that we've known has been a huge pain point for a long time: SVG imports. We would soon find out just how bad it was (bad!) and that we’d need to build a whole new feature in the process.
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Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Jun 21, 2023
In today's @figma #Config2023 auto layout launch, we're shipping an upgrade to how you can truncate text—truncating with "Max lines" rather than a fixed height. But while we were at it, we snuck in a change to the core text layout engine where we decide exactly how to trunca…🧵
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Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Aug 3, 2015
I write node.js and C++ and work on a routing engine at @mapbox and #ILookLikeAnEngineer. @isisAnchalee, you rock 💥
Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Jan 18, 2018
happy thursday, did snap recently make it easier to put filters on pups or is mine just looking more human? @dog_rates do you know
Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Mar 28, 2023
Replying to @lbudorick
And at the end of it all, we’re down from 49% to less than 1% of all imported SVGs encountering a known bug! Huge kudos to @thejoannachen and @nadintamer_, the dream team on this ✨
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Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Apr 21, 2021
This is what my team has been working on for months and I am so flippin excited to release this into the world. Meet FigJam!
Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Jan 12, 2023
Replying to @figma
me: works on the figma editor for 4.5 years also me: what's S ?
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Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Oct 13, 2016
I'm lucky to have been able to work on a lot of cool projects at @mapbox, but this one is wayyy way up there: mapbox.com/blog/3d-featur…
Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Mar 29, 2022
Replying to @lbudorick
(Oh, and! 6 months ago I knew nothing about bidirectional text, but a thing I love about eng is learning deeply about the problem spaces we work in. At @figma my team goes deep into design, graphics, geometry, color, fonts + text. If that sounds fun to you: we are always hiring!)
Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Oct 22, 2020
I gave a talk at #ConfigEurope last month about all the weird stuff that goes into shipping small features at @figmadesign and it's on the internet now!
Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Mar 29, 2022
Replying to @lbudorick
So it's not as simple as laying glyphs in order from right to left. This is how computers reorder bidirectional text 👇
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Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
May 25, 2016
👻👻👻 today at @mapbox
Lauren Budorick
@lbudorick
Mar 29, 2022
Replying to @lbudorick
To order bidirectional text correctly, we first split text into contiguous runs of text that share the same directionality. Now for each run we can do text shaping: decide which form of a given character is correct in context, and pull the right glyph from the font file.
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