Allow for guest collaborators

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?