The world has over a billion knowledge workers suddenly deprived of whiteboards. Its value is driven by sharing & editors and more users can’t be added without new PMF. Expand audience: Figma’s vector objects, layout and preview features are too hard for thinkers beyond trained designers.But for anyone else to collaborate, it requires an editor license, which disincentives use and slows down its bottom-up sales strategy. Support a new use case: Most designers I know capture everything from early sketches (even if photos) to mocks to prototypes and eventually design assets in Figma.No export options yet: Honestly, not a deal breaker since you can copy all objects to Figma and export from there.But in a world where everything from a lesson to a payment request is a URL, not being able to CMD+K a node sucks. Hyperlinking: Sure, I can live without that font.

Alternate Funky font: No, I don’t use ComicSans in business, but from time-to-time I love to create visual relief using an alt font - especially for comments and cues.While Figjam makes it easy to fork linear nodes, it doesn’t support one-to-many out-of-the-box. Stronger mind mapping: I adopted Mindmaps before onscreen sticky notes and LucidChart.Miro launched a less in-the-face version early May. Social rewards mean even more in remote work and I love these as they drive recognition, confirmation and healthy competition between the participants. Emojis have the place they deserve: Figjam has a cool emoji palette making it easy to drop quick reactions all over the board.But you also can’t fill them up with color like in MS Paint 🙂 You can’t draw auto-shapes like Miro, Figma’s vector network features are not available yet. Figjam was smooth like butter – both for writing and drawing shapes. To continue quick drawing in my remote setup, I bought the cheapest Wacom tablet and used it with Sketchbook and Jamboard. Drawing made easy: In office, I was a heavy pen & board user.I could also do some very basic mobile wireframes.

This was a pleasant break from Miro & Figma itself that do so much more and inadvertently draw your attention to presentation.

Simplicity for focus: Limited tools on an infinite canvas, distraction-free (on-demand) editing and quick load times are great to capture ideas quickly & organise visually.

On Figma’s price page, their brand new white board solution – Figjam – was a click away! What I liked ❤️

A couple of weeks back, I was mentoring a startup around their product’s value metric and went on to check subscriptions for a few products.

Lucidchart whiteboard