FigJam is Figma’s online collaborative whiteboard, popular among teams for design or other projects and organizing meetings and ideas. The company's chief product officer, Yuhki Yamashita, revealed that two-thirds of their weekly active users are not designers, indicating a broad user base. The new features are being launched in an open beta starting today.
Key takeaways:
- Figma is adding three generative AI features to its FigJam whiteboard tool to make it easier to start and organize projects.
- FigJam is used by a wide range of users, not just designers, leading the company to consider ways to make the product easier to use.
- The new AI features include a tool to help create FigJam boards, a feature to sort digital sticky notes into logical thematic groupings, and a summarize feature that automatically generates a summary from the sticky notes.
- The company is using OpenAI as its large language model and has tweaked it to understand Figma and FigJam concepts.