“Dwell has a well-established culture of company-wide brainstorming, a concept they call ​“swarming.” During a swarm, someone will post a topic that they want to discuss into a Slack channel, throw in a FigJam link, and invite anyone from the company that is interested to join in and ​“swarm” on that subject. Swarms last around 10 to 15 minutes and can range from discussing a magazine feature idea to hammering out the details of company goals and editorial strategy.”

FigJam is out of beta with new paid plans for teams that want to collaborate without limits. Figma also got a new Enterprise plan ​“that provides the structure, granular controls, advanced security, and support that organizations need to support all the groups that take part in their design process.” (The Twitter thread by Sean Chin provides a curious look behind the scenes on how long it takes to ship something like this.)

…and a few improvements to the plugins and widgets menus in FigJam.

Quickly import and embed PDF files into your FigJam boards.

Admins on the Organization plan now can see who’s using FigJam at the Members and Activity tabs.

Fill-in-the-blank sticky note, where different people can fill out different parts of the sentence. Works great for e.g. ice breakers, user story templates, and critical user journeys.

Lee Munroe shows how the design team at OneSignal structures their meetings, including Figma design crits and fun activities in FigJam.

Fast Company: ​“When COVID-19 struck, Figma users needed a brainstorming tool, fast. FigJam aims to make collaboration more natural — and it’s just getting started.” (Use a private browsing mode to avoid a paywall.)

Admins on the Organization plan now have more ways to see who’s using FigJam and who’s in need of an editor license.

Two new tools in an improved FigJam toolbar: Highlighter (Shift‑M, hold Shift for straight lines) to highlight text and objects and Eraser (Shift-Delete) to delete individual strokes to correct and refine your sketches. See also this tweet from Miggi on how to bring doodles made with Highlighter from FigJam to Figma.

“Use link previews to add sources of inspiration and useful context to your FigJam file. Paste links of rich media from other websites — like videos, articles, or documents — and FigJam will turn them into a preview on your board. Figma will even make some link previews interactive, which allow you to pan around Figma design files and city maps, or stream music and videos while you work in FigJam.”

Grapic is the iPhone app and a FigJam widget that lets you use a real pen, paper, and whiteboards with your remote colleagues, clients, and friends.

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.”

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.