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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

+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.

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.

Guest access is absolutely essential for replacing existing whiteboarding tools!

Hey Joe,

You should be able to update these permission in the share menu so that anyone with the link can edit:

Does this not work for you?

This does work now for logged-in users. I was seeing the normal Figma share menu with the option “can view prototypes only”. If anyone has the issue, restart your Figma app.

Might want to consider non-logged users too - for example, asking a CEO to create a basically one-time account for Figma during a design sprint isn’t ideal.

Nevermind it’s still broken. If the file is in a Team project, it reverts to the Figma share menu.

Agreeing with this!

Also note - Miro recently updated their guest access to allow for guests to customize their avatar names, so they no longer have to be anonymous. This combined with the ability to set a board password makes for a very smooth session experience.

Hey Joe,

Looks like this is a bug so our team is going to investigate further.

Thank you for starting this conversation. I’d love to create a clearer definition of “guest”.

Internal guest = someone within your company who doesn’t use Figma very often.

External guest = a client or a vendor - someone who doesn’t work for your organization.

Which of these use guest types would be most helpful to solve for?

For us we have both. Internal guests who don’t use Figma directly for any of their own project work, but are directly impacted by what we do. We would like to them to join us in brainstorming, workshopping, as well as review mockups and prototypes and such.

Our company is heavily client focussed and involve them in our ideation phases and so we’d also like them to be able to use FigJam with us to do workshops and reviews etc.

We see great value in both use cases - currently our company uses Miro for most external workshops and we often want to pull assets from our workshopping to Figma, but the flow of doing so is big barrier and slows our process down quite considerably. If we could have external and internal guests to work with us in FigJam, we’d really be able to streamline and improve our internal processes and move more of our work to Figma/Figjam. I think this is also beginning to touch on another feature request: connecting figjam + figma. Hope that helps!

+1 to everyone’s comments above. Being able to share with outside collaborators who have edit capabilities is imperative for research!

Also, it’s important they don’t need to create an account. They should just be able to join. Account = blocker

Hi. We are evaluating FigJam more to see if it can replace Miro for our UX design team. We often have brainstorming sessions with large client groups. We have an organization plan with Figma now. It doesn’t appear that we can give edit permissions via a shared link to anonymous client users. Is that right? Will this be possible with future releases? Thanks

For this use case, do you need to know who they are once they’re in the file? (eg: name their avatar) Is it okay for these guest collaborators to appear anonymous?

For me, it’s unimportant to know who they are as long as they have a unique identifier* because I will be having a dialog with them while they’re in the space.

• Mural labels anon collaborators as “anonymous crabs” and other crustaceans 😆
  

Generally it is better if they have a name. Although I have worked with quite a few anonymous users in Miro and it’s not a huge issue but it’s certainly nice to have. As the above commenter said, a unique identifier is key.

Any update on this? This seems to be a primary use case that is preventing Teams from organizing files appropriately since everything has to be in Drafts or you have to do one-off editors.

Figma Please Consider -

I 100% agree that Figjam should have an option that allows anyone with the link to be a Figjam contributor.

I know Figjam is free now, when it becomes a paid subscription I think it will be crucial to have the ability to add people to Figjams that are not listed as Figma editors or even view only account holders. To Joe’s point, it is not ideal to ask a CEO to create an account for a one-time or occasional use.

With design thinking, brainstorming, retrospect-type meetings participation is key. I really don’t want the cost of a subscription or even having to create an account to be the thing that stops teams outside of design to participate. The same would be true for customers that we want to invite to sessions. This is something that Mural does really well. For participants that don’t have a Mural account, they are added as participating users using the anonymous user option where each person is assigned an animal rather than using their name. This option allows a last-minute participant to join a session with just a link, No account needed.

This is not an ask for Figma to give away their software for free, rather it is a consideration of how and to whom you charge. I much rather have a higher facilitator cost and remove the friction for outside participants. And on a similar note, this was one of the primary factors to switching to Figma from Sketch and Invision. It was always a battle to get engineering to give up a portion of their budget to pay to view and comment on design files, especially when there is a 7-1 developer to designer ratio.

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   Frictionless inclusion is a key factor to get participation from individuals outside of the design team.

   
   


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   Ideally, the cost for Figjam should be associated with facilitators rather than participants.

   
   

Awesome idea, please add this to figma & figjam