Lauren Hom has spent 15 years building a career that refuses to pick a lane, and she is speaking at Figma's Config 2026 to explain exactly how she did it.
The core tension here is real and structural: professional culture punishes generalists, career advice defaults to specialization, and creative people with multiple disciplines routinely get told to narrow down. Hom's talk is a direct counter-argument built from a decade and a half of lived practice, not theory.
The full talk is worth watching for the specific frameworks and decisions Hom used to sustain multiple creative pursuits without collapsing them into a single identity. The how matters more than the conclusion.
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