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FigJam Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.9 out of 10
Score
7.9 out of 10

Reviews

6 Reviews

Nice solution when combined with designing .

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

FigJam is a collaborative tool mainly used for brainstorming purposes. It is an easy-to-use platform that allows anyone to contribute to our projects. The most important thing is the interface, which makes things easy for anyone, even team members with little in common with the digital world.

Pros

  • Easy to use interface.
  • Clearly defined features.
  • Collaborative space that works well with design environment.

Cons

  • I always get the impression that it is "heavier" than other solutions of this kind (e.g., Miro).

Likelihood to Recommend

It works best when accompanied by Figma, where you design the solutions the stakeholders expect. In that case, you can have all materials in one place/application without moving back and forth between the browser and the app. However, it depends on the environment used in the organization. If a company uses a different environment, they won't be interested in getting into a new one, although it's similar.

VU
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
FigJam
3 years of experience

FigJam review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use FigJam when starting a new project to gather all the information, data, and research we have so far in one place. This serves as the starting point. Next, we bring the team together for early ideation, secondary research, and user journey mapping. The goal is to create a shared space where everyone on the team can quickly get an overview of the project.

Pros

  • Ideation and brainstorming
  • User journey and user flow mapping

Cons

  • Links preview
  • Low fidelity prototyping

Likelihood to Recommend

FigJam is perfect for the early stages of a project, where every member from cross-functional teams can participate, because it’s intuitive and has a very low entry barrier.

VU
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
FigJam
3 years of experience

FigJam is Figtastic for whiteboarding

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Full-time designer in a product team. Work with a PM and Eng. Manager to figure what's the right thing to build and how we plan to build it right, etc. You know the drill. FigJam is a go-to, daily white board that use primarily for my own notes, sketches and visual thinking. But I also use it several times a week for collaborative purposes, usually for exercises that only last a few minutes. It's been a steady tool for quick, cheap whiteboarding largely becuase we already use Figma, but also because this is simple, low-barrier to entry. You don't want people frustrated with the tools before they even start thinking about contributing feedback to design, etc.

Pros

  • quick startup, like walking up to a physical whiteboard
  • restrained tools, just enough to not worry too much about style or other choices that don't really matter at this fidelity (all the time)
  • excellent integration with Figma itself. Cross-cut and paste, no loss of data, editability, etc.
  • dead simple to learn

Cons

  • love to see it kept feature light ... already seeing the little creeping features like timing clocks, AI help, etc ...

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're working in small product teams, like triads, and already using Figma, this is a no brainer for white boarding, quick/fast sketches, wireframing, collaborative doodling ... it gets less appropriate with large teams, infrequent. IMO, due to the way in which they price, it's better to keep the inner circle small-ish.

VU
Verified User
Contributor in Research & Development (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
FigJam
5 years of experience

Great for discussing and reviewing wireframes

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to sketch workflows of information, as well as wireframes for our UX

Pros

  • Workflows
  • Wireframes
  • UI
  • UX

Cons

  • It misses easy-to-use pre sets of diagrams. The ones presented seem to be not native and hard to use. Miro is a good benchmark.
  • Navegating throught projects in the main page is confusing, specially when people are not admin users.
  • It should suggest ways of organizing the pages designers do, specially when the project is big and have many pages and sections.
  • It could have, for example, a draft version for every page, so that one can hide it when they finish the work, but can open it whenever something needs to be modified, versioning the job.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited when people use it to sketch the first wireframes of the UX, like the Breadboarding technique from Basecamp. I used to work like that when modifying some UX. Our designers used to sketch over our current experience wireframe, and then we could discuss it by using the comments in Figjam or the Call feature at FigJam. That made it easy to discuss it. When building up group boards to discuss ideas, I use Miro, once it has more native pre-sets that help conducts the discussion.

VU
Verified User
Employee in Product Management (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
FigJam
1 year of experience

If You Really Have To

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When ideating and developing UI in games, we needed a tool that would allow us to share ideas quickly without sending photoshop files around. FigJam did that for us.

Pros

  • One file, auto updated, no need to get latest
  • Easy to preview
  • Lack of client is benefit to some (not me)

Cons

  • There is a lack of proper desktop client opposed to tools like xD or Sketch.
  • It feels floaty and not very precise, so to me, it feels like I am interacting with a beta software and this service is like 5 years old.
  • Due to its web-first design, it is not taking advantage of peripherals like Apple Pencil sufficiently.
  • Offline work is a poor experience in my opinion.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is good for mostly previewing and brainstorming, sure.

VU
Verified User
Engineer (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
FigJam
2 years of experience

The Sweetness of FigJam

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being part f an all remote team, we are often looking for collaboration tools such as Fig Jam. recently we began trying Figma for design and prototyping. Figjam we though would work better with Figma so we began to use it. We have used it for ideation, team collaboration and different presentations.

Pros

  • Whiteboarding
  • Live Collaboration
  • Quick Iterations

Cons

  • Less Rigidity
  • Ability to work with Different Documents
  • A light version of Figma

Likelihood to Recommend

Figjam is well suited for Collaboration within teams as well as with stakeholders. We have used Figjam to ideate and create a team structure and guidelines. It works especially well for a remote team that needs a real time live collaboration tool. There are some limits at the moment on what they support. For example there is a similar collaboration tool that allow one to use google docs and be able to edit right from the collaboration tool. Features like these help keep it ahead of curve. I am sure Figjam is working on adding support.

RL
Rogelio Leal
UX/UI Designer at BlueAcorn iCi (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
FigJam
2 years of experience