This year’s online conference organized by Figma was full of exciting news. If you would like to know what is coming to your design tool – grab the mug of your favorite coffee and read the recap in just 3 minutes!

Figma new Features

There is a lot of stuff that was announced during the Figma conference. Here is a quick summary:

• Branching & Merging – Now, you may create branches of your designs and merge the changes once they are ready to include them in the main file. Just like git for designers!
• Audio Calls – You may quickly discuss the file with collaborators directly in Figma! Some say that Figma is the new Clubhouse. 😉
• Up to 500 collaborators – You may now add an enormous number of people to collaborate together.
• Enhanced Figma Mirror – Update your mobile app to get a better workflow between Figma & your mobile preview. View your files & prototypes directly on mobile!
• Figma Community – The feature is out of Beta. Everyone can now join the Community!

There was also the announcement of the new big thing. Let’s see what it is!

The Big News – Figjam

Figjam is an entirely new product. Obviously, it is perfectly integrated with Figma, but when it goes out of Beta, it will be a separate paid solution.

What may you do with Figjam? Well, it is created to collaborate better in the era of remote work. It is something like an online whiteboard – the connection of Figma, Miro, Zoom & Freehand.

Figjam is created to organize Brainstorming, Design Thinking sessions and all kind of creative activity that allows you to express ideas together with your team & clients. With Figjam, you may also create all kinds of Diagrams. To help you get started, folks from Figma prepared series of Templates that allows you to see how you may organize your creative workshops. Cool!

 

 

Even if you are a solo freelancer, you may create mood boards & perform some research there to show the results to the client later.

What is more important, the new solution is connected with Figma. This means that your designs may be directly attached to the jams you created.

Figjam is currently in Beta, but it already sounds big!

Figma & Design Systems

There were a lot of talks about creating & maintaining Design Systems in Figma. I am going to use these valuable tips to include them in Prime Design Starter Kit for Figma (you may preorder the kit now!). Collaboration, connected with Figjam, brings a lot of new possibilities that designs may take to move their creations to the next level!

To conclude

I am amazed at how fast Figma is growing and enhancing the new features. They will surely help to design much faster. What do you think about Figma updates?

 

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