Synchronize Figma to FigJam & vice-versa

@Vanessa_Van_Schyndel please 🙏 can I be included in this. We desperately need to find a solution.

Still no news, just keeping this thread open.

BUMP! I’ve been following this for years and genuinely can’t believe this STILL isn’t a thing… 😩 😩

Pretty, pretty please — we beg you! 🙏

Figma Inc is like:

This 👆 or, I dunno updating variables out of perpetual Beta? Tumbleweed.

Completely ruining the UI and force-feeding it into all users? 👍

It’s completely astonishing that this feature has not been implemented yet.

Seriously this wasn’t implemented yet?
This is more an expected behaviour than a feature request.
FigJam should be a view, not an application inside another application.

I don’t understand this has not been implemented yet! Such a basic functionality.

Cmon, implement this feature please…

@miggi please can you shed some light on this feature. Is this ever going to happen.

Common Figma… we need this sooner rather than later

I know it’s a 4 year old topic, but i’m losing SO MUCH TIME on this now.

My flow:

• create components in Figma with several variations of colors, text, etc.
• use said components as stickers inside FigJam to create flows and have conversations with my peers.

My issue:

• Everytime I want to update a Figma component, and I sync manually them… they are not changed inside FigJam. I need to delete the sticker, reload the page, put a new identical sticker, and then choose the variant I need.
• It does entirely remove the advantage of using components.
• I understand that for old FigJam boards, it might seem like changes brought with Figma could break the boards… but since we’re doing already a step of syncing the components in Figma, I don’t see why we can’t have that in Figjam too… or just don’t care about it. Updating components is not the same as creating or deleting components. It should work.

As is, I can’t use the power of components, and that’s pretty frustrating.

Alright, so, if anybody runs across that issue here are the actual steps. It actually works, but it’s a bit hidden.

• In Figma, after doing changes, update your library.

  

  

• In FigJam, when you try adding a new sticker by clicking on the addition (drag and drop does not trigger it) you should see a notification to update !

  

   

Everything should have been updated properly !!

This is not about updating the component library, this is about sync between the same frame in Figma and pasted in Figjam, so my flows can be up to date with the design.

It’s a shame this is not a feature, Figjam and Figma are treated like separated features while they should live on the same page, like developer mode.

​@Francesco Maretti agreed.

I actually see it this way:

• if I want to update a component in Figma, you edit the component, and your figma designs just use the updated version.
• With Figma and Figjam, I would have expected the same behaviour.
• But behaviour is different, and for some reason figjam is considering the components like a dev project with versioning. If a Figma component is updated, you have to push the update in Figma, and you have to update in Figjam.

While I understand that behaviour because the export is a flat PNG or whatever and not all the components (you can’t edit the colors of a component easily if at all), and that exports and versioning are a widespread methodology for serious businesses… I think it’s detrimental in our use cases because:

• Figjam is NOT a prototyping tool that requires heavy collaboration. It’s a jam board. You doodle around. It needs to be fast, collaborative, iterative.
• Figma components should behave like many other design apps out there. Like sketch. You edit a component so it’s up to date in all your document. I understand that for some people you want some security and not update the components in an old document…
• But that leads me to another issue. If the goal was really to allow owners of the documents to cherrypick what’s going to be updated and what is not, let’s say for the sake of keeping copies, or reverting a change… figjam in it’s current implementation does not allow for choosing what to sync. It’s a simple and brutal sync or not, defeating the purpose. You either keep a document never synced with latest, or you accept everything.

I don’t know how widespread is this behaviour is among design softwares, of including some sort of light versioning. But man. I just used to keep copies of my old designs. That’s a real save. That’s how you can see where you came from with that beautiful version1 of that pristine website. Files could be corrupted more than once and we were happy to have an old save that wasn’t corrupted. I’ve seen countless discussions about trying to version design and art and it’s never great because you can’t compare versioning light text files of your code versus keeping hundreds of copies of your mega heavy photoshop or whatever files.

Anyways, sounds like a rant, in hopes that a product manager sees this. But basically, if my use case is to have my own custom stickers in figjam, right now It’s hindered by this.