Last year, Figma destroyed the competition in almost every category. They went after a few remaining areas with the launch of FigJam this year. Great to see that Figma is still the most exciting design tool out there by far!

A FigJam widget to help your group take turns. Keep track of whose turn it is, who’s already gone, and who’s left.

“We’re bringing our open platform to FigJam so developers can build plugins and widgets to automate workflows and engage the entire team. Widgets are interactive, native-like objects — like polls, games, and notepads — that the entire team can use together. Hear from Figmates and developers from the Community to see how you can build your own!”

“Get an inside look into how engineers across Figma use FigJam to stay aligned, share feedback, and communicate complex problems. We’ll showcase how we’ve integrated FigJam into our engineering process and arm you with templates to use with your team.”

“We recently caught up with three of Figma’s engineers — Alice Ching, Joey Wang, and Greg Blaszczuk — to learn more about how they use FigJam to navigate their day-to-day. Here, they share how jamming helps them break down complex problems, work through feedback together, and add more fun to the workday.”

This is an unusual link for this place, but Rafa makes great observations about superior parts of Sketch. I’ve been skeptical about their Workspace and Real-time Collaboration, but the UI and native features were always top-notch. Glad they’re still competing with a strong product!

Great article by Christine Vallaure on improving accessibility by using relative font sizes in CSS, and how to work around pixel-based sizes in Figma. While I always use a combination of rem and em units, I wasn’t familiar with the 62.5% CSS hack or that units can be switched during hand-off in Zeplin. Very cool!

A new plugin from Gleb Sabirzyanov for getting custom colors from Figma to FigJam.

Play Rock Paper Scissors with your friends in FigJam.

Stark’s FigJam widget provides designers, engineers, and product managers role-specific accessibility checklists.

Play Tic-Tac-Toe with 2 or more players.

Take memorable team selfies with the whole team.

Fully-fledged calendar widget by Mirko Santangelo.

A simple todo widget by Jordan Singer.

Speaking of visual thinking, this prototype is a great illustration of the power of widgets. Can’t wait for it to get approved!

Sho Kuwamoto on the role of widgets and how Figma and FigJam work together. See also his thoughts on why design tools exist.

Fantastic examples of real-life FigJam use cases in the classroom.

Thread by Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma, on not just translating physical experiences into digital realms but also making digital experiences even better than physical counterparts.

A huge change for organizations with external collaborators and education. ​“Open sessions is a way for visitors to join your FigJam file without having to create an account. Now FigJam is a welcoming space for all participants — from the teammate, to the external partner, to the occasional jammer.”

So many great things in a single announcement! New pricing starting February 2022 ($0–5/editor/month), open sessions, widgets, plugins, embedded content, as well as new shapes, code blocks, and templates.