FigJam by Figma — An online whiteboard from Figma designed for teams

Wow. this is so cool. I have to pass this product to my Data Engineering team. This could be very useful for us to create our complex Data plumbing diagrams here. Have you though on this @kenrick_rilee @jenny_wen @eymlie @zoink? If you need a beta tester for this, let me know.

Hey Product Hunt, I’m Emily Lin, a Product Manager at Figma. Today I’m excited to introduce our new product, FigJam, an online whiteboard for teams to explore ideas together. Before teams are collaborating on designs and prototypes, they’re often thinking through user problems, exploring ideas, and building consensus. Throughout 2020, we saw an uptick in teams using Figma for these activities as well as stand-ups, retros, and team hangs. We realized these freeform activities needed a dedicated space. One that was well-designed, fun to use, and made specifically for designers and their extended teams. That’s why we built FigJam, thoughtfully designed for brainstorms, journey mapping, research, and more. While designing FigJam, there were a few things we knew we had to get right: • Making sure it was easy for anyone, not just designers, to learn and use • Supporting use cases we were seeing in Figma already: team brainstorms and diagramming • Bringing in fun and playfulness by making it easy for everyone to express themselves • Connecting FigJam with Figma (we’re just getting started here!) We’ve been testing FigJam ourselves and with some early beta customers to gather feedback and improve the product. When we saw customers use FigJam for retrospectives and research synthesis, we quickly realized sticky notes needed author names. And when we heard teams needed more ways to express themselves, we worked with artists to create custom stickers for team activities. Today, we’re rolling out the FigJam beta to everyone. Our team already has ideas for how we’ll continue to evolve this new product, but we’d love to hear yours as you start playing in FigJam with your team. Check out our blog to learn more about FigJam and what other features we launched at our user conference, Config: https://www.figma.com/blog/comin... If you have any questions about FigJam, drop them below and our team will get back to you. Happy jamming!

Congrats @zoink @eymlie on launching this amazing feature. The community always wanted this feature from long ago. They dont like to switch between tools to work around their designs. And as a Community Advocate, I believe this will help the community a lot with designing faster and maintain those designs within one space.

Any plans to add support for "imperfect", hand-drawn-like lines to all the built-in shapes (squares etc.) and a "handwritten" font, so we can use FigJam instead of Excalidraw?

Having all these tools within one place?! This is just again, proof of Figma's commitment to extending live collaboration further and so far, they've been nailing it on every major update. I'm thinking about releasing a small FigJam template to the Figma community, showing our appreciation and how we are enjoying this great new update! Hope the Figma community will like it :D

Hm-m 🤔

That's a really cool release! But I didn't find wireframing option, so I made it by myself https://stratum-figjam.cc/

We’re excited for everyone to start exploring FigJam and would love to hear your feedback and questions. We’re gathering all of these on our Support Forum here: https://forum.figma.com/figjam

I loved it, it is very useful for me because as a developer, it is often very useful to capture the idea before starting to develop. loved it.

A few weeks ago I was creating flows for a new product feature and chose Figma as my tool with the excuse that I can prototype faster in it than in any other tool out there. Now I can make things official :)) Thanks for this product.

Just tried it. Although I rather see innovation instead of cloning I have to say this is well implemented. Not sure if I would pay extra for editors (from what I can see it is free in beta and becomes paid after). Honestly, it would make a strong(er) case for Figma if it was bundled into the current editor/team subscription instead of billing the same person twice.

@kenrick_rilee @jenny_wen @zoink @eymlie Cool Product and a really cool video. Really looking forward to trying Figjam at AnalyticsVerse. We often made use of Draw.io but were always on the lookout for a better alternative and couldn't find one. Thanks!

Awesome! Do you also have a ready-made template for quick prototyping?

Why did you choose to make this a separate product, rather than just upgrading Figma?

Absolutely love this! First step to replacing miro....? ><

There are similar tools, but tis one looks more easy to use. Thanks for sharing

Super excited to check this out!! If it is as great as it looks, will really fill in a huge gap on my team!

That's a nice alternative to Miro and other online collaboration tools. Even the visual style looks really similar to Miro, but it's not bad. What appeals to me is that I can now perform jam sessions with the team while reviewing the design in Figma, without the need to switch tools.

This looks like a nice Miro alternative. Congrats! Do we have integrations with Zoom/ Meets so we can discuss and brainstorm remotely.

Does it support writing in English only? I tried writing in Arabic and nothing appears!