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Community Champion Finalist

Luis Ouriach

Figma

About Luis

Luis Ouriach has established himself as a pivotal voice in the design systems community through his multi-faceted approach to education and advocacy.

As a Designer Advocate at Figma, he bridges the gap between complex tooling and practical implementation, helping teams set their design systems up for success. He has produced the guides on best practice structure within Figma varying from design system architecture, variables organisation, all the way up to layer naming conventions. Alongside his colleague Jake Albaugh, Luis co-created the Figma's Simple Design System library, their first ever public design system, published alongside Apple's iOS and Material' kits.

More recently, Luis has turned to building plugins to help speed up design system processes. From managing CSS variables, to design system variable auditing. Beyond his professional role, Luis has cultivated vibrant community spaces through his creation of the global Coffee Break event series, as well as the London Pixels community – fostering connections and knowledge sharing across the global design community.

His contributions span from in-depth technical resources on Figma Community to thoughtful commentary on design culture, consistently championing the idea that community investment and relationship building are as crucial to career growth as pixel-perfect execution.

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Luis is incredibly passionate about design and the design community, is always keen to help out on just about anything, and always there to share the vast well of knowledge that he has with everything product design and design systems.

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Timeline

  1. Nominations will be open from Tuesday 13 May. If you have any questions about the nomination process, then check out the FAQs, or if your question isn't answered, please get in touch at community@zeroheight.com

    13 May, 2025

  2. Once the nominations are closed, we'll be collating the longlist and working through it to determine a shortlist. The shortlist will be determined by the team at zeroheight, and will be based on uniform judging criteria (which we will share in a month or two). With the shortlist creation, we aim to remove as much bias as possible and give everyone a fair chance across the board.

    22 August, 2025

  3. In September, the shortlist will be announced, including public voting! We'll notify all folks as to whether they made the shortlist. The judges will then individually judge each shortlisted entry. We'll also have public voting on each category live on the site!

    15 September, 2025

  4. Once all the judges and public votes are counted, we'll then be able to determine the winner for each category, based off a weighted compilation of votes.

    3 November, 2025

  5. In December, we'll gather the community together at an event in London to announce the winners live. We'll also be live-streaming the ceremony for those who can't make it. The live event will be invite only, but we'll offer the community a chance to apply for a ticket later in the year! We'll also post the results to the zeroheight site the day after the event.

    December 2025 (TBA)

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