Figma, maker of the web-based, collaborative interface design platform of the identical identify, has introduced a raft of latest updates to its FigJam whiteboarding platform, together with new templates and integrations designed to enhance productiveness and make collaborating extra enjoyable.
Launched in April 2021 as a derivative instrument to facilitate the conversations and collaboration efforts customers had been having on the Figma platform, FigJam goals to help ideation and brainstorming via consumer flows and primary diagrams.
As Figma began to increase into the whiteboarding house, the corporate has seen groups that wouldn’t be conventional Figma prospects use FigJam for every part from internet hosting group rituals to planning, ideation and diagramming defined Jillian Latimer, product advertising and marketing supervisor at FigJam.
“We actually see [FigJam] as this dialog canvas, an area the place it isn’t simply brainstorming or diagramming occurring, however the place groups outline concepts, align on selections after which transfer plans ahead, all collectively in a single place,” she mentioned. “It turns into this house the place persons are capable of have conversations, work collectively and have a typical floor for collaboration all through the product growth course of.”
Latimer says the corporate wished to deal with enhancing effectivity and enabling groups to remain extra aligned from the primary concept to closing supply.
Templates, integrations streamline workflow
New customized templates are designed to make it simpler to recycle and create templates that anybody in a corporation can use, permitting groups to standardize the way in which they work. In the meantime, new integrations with merchandise from UserTesting, a maker of customer-feedback software program, and Productboard, a creator of collaboration purposes, purpose to permit organizations to deliver their conversations in these merchandise immediately into FigJam. Customers may even be capable to flip concepts captured on stickies into Productboard notes by way of a brand new widget.
The opposite new options had been born out of the driving ideas behind FigJam — the corporate’s robust emphasis on enjoyable and playfulness.
With its newest spherical of platform updates, FigJam has sought to push this ingredient of enjoyable even additional by giving customers the power to make use of group face stamps to attribute and assign objects to group members and use emojis to react to different folks’s concepts. Corporations may even be capable to set their model colours because the default for information to make areas which can be extra personalised.
Customers will be capable to select from a number of preset music tracks that can play for a set time period whereas they’re engaged on a file. The identical observe will play for everybody within the file however customers can management their very own music quantity and might mute it for themselves. Anybody within the file can set or change a music observe.
“We’re actually making an attempt to search for methods we make [FigJam] somewhat bit extra human,” Latimer mentioned. “We need to set ourselves aside from the bullets and blankness of a paper doc.”
Adobe’s $20B deliberate acquisition of Figma underneath scrutiny
In September 2022, Adobe introduced it could be acquiring Figma for $20 billion, though the deal has confronted numerous regulatory hurdles together with an investigation by the UK’s Competitors and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Fee.“Figma’s web-based, multiplayer platform can speed up the supply of Adobe’s Inventive Cloud applied sciences on the net, making the artistic course of accessible to extra folks,” mentioned David Wadhwani, Adobe govt vp and chief enterprise officer for digital media, when the deal was introduced.
