Allow for guest collaborators

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.

Summary points

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

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

Awesome idea, please add this to figma & figjam

For us, having account-less external guests are the priority. We can usually get internal folks setup with an account if needed and they are more likely to use it >1 time. Knowing who they are isn’t essential — we don’t know in Miro, and result to some “put your initials here” workarounds — but would be an advantage.

Also, having this for educational workshops would be awesome. Right now I’m using Miro with students so they don’t have to create an account for a few exercises. But if we could have it working in FigJam, I’d make the switch without thinking twice 🙂

For us, external guests are a priority.

Seems like a major bug but with the lack of resolution so far it’s feeling more like a conscious decision. Hopefully, it being one of the most voted and viewed topic gets it addressed sooner than later.

For us, it’s mostly external guests. We use FigJam for brainstorming/feedback sessions with existing customers as well as visioncasting/implementation planning sessions with prospective customers.