Another bump from me - some other flow tools can do this (with Figma designs as a basis) so it only seems natural that FigJam should be able to do this too.

BUMP! 15 months later – any progress on this request?

This would be such a game changer. 😍

massive +1 on this.

we use FigJam to illustrate user flows and notes during a tech review when we do hand off, using it as a live document.

Currently if the designs update the figjam is no longer the source of truth 😢

Hugely agree with this thread, and here is our specific use case for the Figma team to consider:

We create designs for and with product in Figma. Often, the Figma files themselves contain a lot of concepts, screen-grabs, mishmash, in-progress ideas, …essentially: noise from the design process. This stuff, we’d rather not expose/confuse Product, development, or anyone else with - but it does have value to us.

Pages: Sure, we could place this stuff into other pages, but this is confusing, and it’s not like you can set various pages as off-limits for any group you share a Figma file with.

Delete it The other option is deleting this stuff, but nearly always we are in process with things, and/or there will be continued design/development of any given project. It’s frequently helpful to have the former process concepts, and design odds-and-ends around for future work.

Sharing Figma is oversharing Lastly, while some folks are fine with the Figma UI being present - we often find things like the layers panels to also be additional noise that devs, and many product folk do not need to mess with. The inspection panel with css stuff may be occasionally helpful to devs, but more often than not - all they need is a font value or a color.

We share with Figjam

So we create Figma components with names like view/some-name and publish them - then import them into a Figjam, and tie them together in a flow chart. Ultimately it’s the Figjam schematic, full of real designs, that we end up sharing with teams or linking in tickets, because it’s the clearest way to communicate the designs as a flow.

This works because any update to the Figma component can be pushed to the Figjam file, removing the abject nightmare of manual copy and paste updating to keep designs current.

However, it’s clear from the Figjam UI, this isn’t really what was intended. The Figma designs are imported as a library of ‘stickers’, and pulling updates is buried under the sticker menu. Plus, the sticker menu doesn’t include names or titles of the ‘stickers’ easy to view - relying more on thumbnails. Naturally, the thumbnails of a series of design comps often are not obviously different enough at a glance to easily understand which view you are grabbing, etc.

I think there is huge potential though here, and the Figma/Figjam combined flow is already nearly there. It’s the ultimate 1-2 punch to go from a Figjam skematic flow, and gradually replace with the true designs (From Figma) when they are ready. This, plus the ability to keep them always current, without overhead is just thermonuclear winning.

I agree with all the points Andrew makes above.

This is where Figma has to decide if Figjam is an underpowered whiteboard or a unique & valuable tool. Is it:

a) just a fun and underpowered Miro-lite with plug-ins OR

b) offers unique value as PM-collaboration companion app for Figma.

The killer feature for Figjam would be as a clean & beautiful way to expose just the options on designs that are relevant to get PM feedback. Everything else is done better by other whiteboarding tools.

Figma sharing IS oversharing with PMs. The Figma interface in awesome for designers, OK for devs, but way too distracting for our PM partners. If my designers make a bunch of variations, each with variant components & properties, it would be awesome to allow PMs to come in and tinker with the exposed variants/properties, comment on the same, but do it in FIGJAM, where it’s a simple canvas where we don’t have to hide:

1. all of the Figma design interface


2. all of design components that we don’t want to expose


3. all of the other pages they shouldn’t look at

Agree with the suggestion, It’s very helpful and saves time if we change/update the design in Figma.

I am very interested in this feature if it goes into beta, please let me know thanks!

Are we still waiting for this? Right now pasting Figma frames on FigJam is quite useless for me. If I’m adding connectors/stickies and then decide to update the frame on Figma, I have to do delete the frame on FigJam and add it all over again with new connectors/stickies.

For now, png images work better because at least I can paste and replace on FigJam, but it’s still quite tedious the bigger the project.

I used to handoff design files and userflow to developers.

Whenever I modify design file, I have to replace screen in Figjam Userflow File.

so frustrating.

if I modify a frame in design file, it would be nice if the screen in the userflow file is linked and automatically replaced.

It’s not a nice-to-have. It’s an “I-can’t-live-without-it-anymore” type of user need.

It would be extremely helpful to have this! I am using Figjam all the time to build, discuss and document User Flows, User Journeys and Service Blueprints and synched elements from Figma would help immensely to reduce my maintenance time for keeping these things up to date.

Hello Vanessa,

This workflow/feature would be very interesting for me & my team (as we are constantly jumping between both & use both for different phases of the sprint).

Please count me in for the Study 😊

Thank you!

I need this also. This really needs to be a core feature, it’s something that would set FigJam apart from other whiteboarding tools and it’s something I thought should just happen intuitively, and when it didn’t, I was confused and a little frustrated.

I’d love to be able to link something from my Figjam File to my Figma file and have the option to auto update. We do a lot of early research in Figjam and then bring core ideas into Figma. Sometimes, those ideas change, and I need to update it on Figma and Figjam. Having them automatically update would help with consistency!

We need the ability to sync Frames between Figma and FigJam. If I make a change in the design file, I have to copy/paste in FigJam. This is available for Miro but not FigJam. This feature has been requested for years and I don’t understand why such a basic feature is not being provided.

This is the lacking one features that kills Figjam for me, syncing frames with designs.

• Figma to Miro there is a great plugin that works 90% of the time - but wins hand down from Figjam.


• Confluence atleast has the function you can paste replace an image in confluence if you select that image first


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Any news when this basic functionality will be included

This thread has been going on for over 2 years. Is Figma really listening to their users or is this just Feedback/Support Theater? I guess I’ll have to stick with Miro.

The thing with this request we’re all asking for is that Figma/Figjam sync is SUPPOSED to be what sets Figjam apart and ahead of Miro.

Also, if you go to stickers, you can actually update a component shared from Figma to Figjam. Therefore, the code’s already written to update components in Figjam. It’s just hidden in such an unusable place that nobody uses it.

TO FIGMA: Here’s what we all want. In Figjam, if the user right-clicks on a Component shared from Figma, select “Update Component” from menu & component updates itself. That’s it.

But we can’t enlarge the embedded frame, or draw the connector on it…

that’s the problem.

Yes this please! ^

Now it’s 2023 and I am still waiting.

Absolutely necessary feature.

We expected frames to be synched between Figma and Figjam and were very surprised this doesn’t work.

We can scale down our whiteboarding needs (coming from Miro) for a better User Flows experience.

As it is we might not renew our Figjam accounts as Miro has superior whiteboarding capabilities.

We design UIs in Figma but need to share flows without granting access to the main Figma File.

We expected Figjam to be the natural solution but changes need to be synched or this is only sustainable for small projects.

Please, please PLEASE include this feature!

Thats why you all should use Miro instead. There a Plugin for synchronizing Figma with Miro.

I do not understand, why Figma did not include this option in FigJam, very dissapointed