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Annie1
April 21, 2021

Allow for guest collaborators

  • April 21, 2021
  • 49 replies
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This would be really helpful to be open to guest collaborators. We are on a professional plan and have tried to use Figma for brainstorming sessions or workshops that involve outside collaborators - these collaborators only need access to one file for a limited amount of time, and currently with both FigJam and Figma it’s not possible to do so without adding another editor. We’ve had great feedback from those that we have done sessions with and we would love to have some possibility of adding guest passes for outside collaborators that allow them to view and edit a file, without needing to add them as an editor and allow them to access other project files and such.

49 replies

Joe_Steinkamp
April 21, 2021

Looks like the share menu is a carryover from Figma (still says prototype). You should allow anyone with the link to be able to edit.

Adriaan_Steyn
April 22, 2021

It would be great if you could share a link with edit access to clients without the need for them to sign-up to Figma. This will allow you to run design workshops with a large number of stakeholders without each of them needing to sign up. They just click the link, join and start participating in the workshop. Similar to Miro’s sharing functionality. This functionality would be game-changing allow us to gather feedback through workshops in Figma and then designing the solutions all in the same app.

Ash_Murphy
April 22, 2021

Yep, seconding this. Figjam is pretty much useless if you can’t have anonymous editors in a file like Miro

Ash_Murphy
April 22, 2021

Yeah Miro allows this and it’s perfect. No login’s or anything so it’s extremely easy to collaborate with clients. Figjam needs this if we want to do internal or client workshops

Sebastian_Teo_Popa
April 22, 2021

Yes please! This is indeed the biggest barrier for switching our team from Miro/Mural to FigJam.

rob6
April 22, 2021

I find this to be a real issue with Miro, in that a free guest collaborator is anonymous unless the use the paid option for the day.

And we dont want to play for lots of clients who essentially use the system for 2 hours.

Ideally a guest could log in to a workshop for example without a sign up and just have the ability to add a custom name to their avatar.

Joao_Paulo_Villa_Mello
April 22, 2021

I was discussing this with our team today. A couple of weeks ago we had a retrospective with the teams. 20 people participated, from those only four were designers with a paid Miro account. The other 16 could participate and interact with our Miro board without paying anything.

To be honest, as of now, this is the only thing blocking us as well.

nickleonard
April 22, 2021

+1 to many of the same use cases above. We use Miro for workshops with clients, often including people who may only be engaged for that workshop (i.e. they won’t be reviewing design work later) and I don’t want to start that interaction with yet another account registration. If I could have them dropped straight into a FigJam board with edit capabilities, ideally w/ ability to set their name, that would make this an easy switch.

James_Thomas
New Member
April 23, 2021

FigJam could be an amazing tool to lead white boarding sessions with external research participants, but we would want to allow them to have limited, edit access to 1-2 files, and no ability to explore any other files in a project or team. Similarly, for licensing concerns, this access could expire after X days.

CarrieMah
April 23, 2021

Guest access is absolutely essential for replacing existing whiteboarding tools!