Figma is great, but could be so much better..especially FigJam
- Stickers and/or stamps, which I want to use for highlighting important objects from a team exercise or brainstorm, prioritize novelty over utility...there isn’t a default sticker for “priority” or “insight”. the closest thing is... a thumbtack? 📌 fantackstick!
- Quick and dirty wireframes → I need more than FigJam shapes to illustrate a concept, but for the most basic components l need to use figma, which is overkill for most initial UX work and can’t easily be used to convey user journeys/flows or contextual information. either add basic component libraries to FigJam or add Stickies and Arrow/flow-mapping capabilities to Figma. To split these capabilities into separate tools makes zero sense to me.
- I suppose many of these issues would be solved if i could even just embed figma frames into figjam, which I can actually do, but there’s no default linking of the frame back to the figma file, which means i need to copy+paste the URL into a separate object over the frame i’ve already added. Nothing i love more than duplicative work, right?
- Database modelling in figjam is impossible. Even though I can create table objects to represent tables, I cannot link key relationships from one table row to another with an arrow/line. I literally pay $13/mo to lucidchart solely because I can draw a line between one row in a table object and another row in a separate table object….and yes, i feel stupid admitting this. You’d think the Adobe would really value being able to match a database model to an interface designed in Figma, then buy a co like Supabase to bring it all together in an end-to-end “super-stack” that supports builders from concept to creation. But alas, that would require ambition beyond the reach of Adobe’s status quo.
Am I missing something that others have figured out? If so, I’d like to know..