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

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FigJam is an online whiteboard for teams to collaborate, brainstorm, map out flows, and more. FigJam is easy to learn and fun to use, so anyone can participate and share their ideas.

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Emily Lin Hasham
Maker
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!
Eugene Hauptmann
@eymlie nice! Great replacement for the Miro!
David Carpov
@eymlie Cool idea!
Vlad Korobov
@eymlie thank you thank you thank you. Can we expect some improvement to diagramming, so it would be easier to create mindmap? Can plugin creators use an API to do plugins for FigJam?
Ghost Kitty
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Emily Lin Hasham
Maker
@vlad_korobov We are actively thinking about how to build off of our beta, and improved diagramming & plugin support are both on our list! LMK if you'd be down to chat more with our team about your needs!
Alexander Isora 🦄
Hm-m 🤔
Sagi Eldar
Ebru Kırımlı
@alexanderisora Sad but true :(
Alexander Isora 🦄
@ebru_kirimli1 I'm sure the talented Miro team will work hard and offer something cool to get their users back. It will motivate the Figma team to make cool updates in turn. Eventually we will get better products while the whole industry will evolve and grow. Competition is good. I do not feel sad about this 🙂
Feng
@alexanderisora More like Goodbye Invision Freehand...goodbye Invision.
Ebru Kırımlı
@alexanderisora agree on that!
Robert Haisfield
Why did you choose to make this a separate product, rather than just upgrading Figma?
Emily Lin Hasham
Maker
@roberthaisfield One of our top priorities was to make FigJam a really easy tool for anyone, not just people who are familiar with design tools, to use, since ideation and brainstorming happens with entire teams. This led us to a separate and simplified space that puts the focus on the content and ideas. That being said, we believe there’s a lot more we can do to take advantage of the Figma<>FigJam relationship and are thinking a ton about this. Let me know if you have any specific thoughts! :)
Ken Moo
This looks like a nice Miro alternative. Congrats! Do we have integrations with Zoom/ Meets so we can discuss and brainstorm remotely.
Emily Lin Hasham
Maker
@kenmoo We don't have integrations with Zoom/ Meets right now, but we are currently working on integrating audio capabilities directly into Figma & FigJam! https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/...
Marcos Ortiz
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.
Wayne Ng
@marcosluis2186 Figma is actually available for free to everyone now! Let us know if there are any features you really need or any questions you have once you start using it for diagramming with your team. :)
Marcos Ortiz
@wayneng Awesome. I will test it with a big diagrama I'm working right now, and I will send you my feedback. Sounds good?
Wayne Ng
Marcos Ortiz
@wayneng so far, so good. If this prouct is in Beta, it looks almost finished. Well done. Send me your emails to share the work with you.
Wayne Ng
@marcosluis2186 Thank you for the feedback! You can DM Emily and me on Twitter: @worldwydewayne and @eymlin
Petr Filipchyk
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?
Emily Lin Hasham
Maker
@d3vtoolsmith no concrete plans yet, but this has come up a few times so we are definitely considering it!
Feng
@d3vtoolsmith @eymlie This would be a great! Then I wouldn't need balsamiq.
Corey Ward
@d3vtoolsmith @eymlie @littlefengers You can mostly do this now if you make components that look the way you want in Figma and publish them as a library to use in FigJam. If you do, share on the Figma Community—I'm sure others are in the same boat!
Karla Vogel
Great Tool -The integration with Figma will finally give PMs and engineers a more solid space to feel included that isn’t just comments on a shared design. 🥰
Vivek
There are similar tools, but tis one looks more easy to use. Thanks for sharing
Josh Dunsterville
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
Wayne Ng
FigJam subcategories in the Support Forum: • Feedback: https://forum.figma.com/c/figjam... • Questions: https://forum.figma.com/c/figjam... • Reported bugs: https://forum.figma.com/c/figjam... • Release notes (for when the team rolls out updates): https://forum.figma.com/c/figjam... • FAQs: https://forum.figma.com/c/figjam...
Divyansh Patel
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.
Widianto Zhu
Awesome! Do you also have a ready-made template for quick prototyping?
Emily Lin Hasham
Maker
@widianto_zhu1 We have a couple of FigJam templates published to the community to help folks who want to jumpstart from somewhere! https://www.figma.com/community/...
Widianto Zhu
@eymlie awesome, thanks so much!
Wayne Ng
@widianto_zhu1 Feel free to let us know if there are any other types of templates you and your team want or need! :)
Hande Yılmaz
My friend @ebru_kirimli1 told me this, I am really excited to going to experience it!
Ebru Kırımlı
@handeeyilmazz let me hear your experiences on that!!
Francarlos Jose Blanco Herrera
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.
Sagi Eldar
@eymlie Love it! Great Work 😎
Quality Monks
Would like to explore this one, looks super easy!!
Farid Sabitov
Love it!!!
Bogdan Ionita
Cool stuff guys, congrats on improving Figma!
ayberk bozkus
I like it, I will try
Ruben Wolff
Looks very fun and easy to use and to customize. Nice work!
Aaron Hanson
Great tool - going to try this out for my next flow diagram
Emily Lin Hasham
Maker
@crixlet1 let us know what you think!