⏲ Year Book for Figma Website
FigmaFigma: the collaborative interface design tool.Reference
💻 How Figma took over design - The HustleInvesting in Figma: The Decade of Design | Andreessen Horowitz23-Year-Old’s Design Collaboration Tool Figma Launches With $14M To Fight Adobe • TechCrunch21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma | TechCrunchBacked by Peter Thiel
In Janurary 2013, Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel’s 20-Under-20 fellows
Seed Round: Raised $3.9M from Index Ventures Valued at $10.9M
The leading investor: Index Venture and Terrence Rohan
2016 - Let's Collaborate
From Figma VS Sketch. Figma is like Sketch in the browser… | by Meng To | Design+Code | Medium
Figma VS Sketch. Figma is like Sketch in the browser… | by Meng To | Design+Code | MediumYou Are Going to Switch to Figma. I’ve read a lot of comparison articles… | by Tom Johnson | Startups & Venture CapitalThe greatest weakness of Sketch has always been its lock-in to the Apple ecosystem. You need a Mac not only to design with it but also to open and inspect files. If you are on Windows or Linux, you’re out of luck.
From Figma Vs Sketch: The Showdown — Smashing Magazine
How Figma crashed Sketch
Multi-Platform
Sketch only supports Mac
Figma is browser based, Mac & Windows are supported, even Linux; No installation required
Collaboration
Realtime collaboration is supported in Figma
Vector Manipulation
Figma website over the years
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2020 - Dominate Market
Figma Raises $25 Million Series B Led by Kleiner Perkins2019 - Viral Growth
Figma - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2023 | Product HuntFigma year in review: 2018Introducing: Figma’s PlatformFigma year in review: 2018File loading, dragging & zooming is up to 3x faster
Made in Figma, 2019: Design by the numbersWeb Source - 2018
Source 2019
What's Figma? - YouTubeFigma’s infrastructure: What goes into powering a web-based design tool2021 - Meet Figjam
Frame 2021: design by the numbersSource - 2021
Introducing FigJamWhy Figma Wins - kwokchainFigma raises $50 million Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz • TechCrunchFigma gets $40 million Series C to put design tools in the cloud • TechCrunchFigma ReleasesFigJam by Figma - An online whiteboard from Figma designed for teams2022 Acquired By Adobe
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Dylan Before Figma
Dylan has worked at Flipboard, O’Reilly Media, Indinero, Microsoft Research, and LinkedIn. He’s currently stopped out of Brown where he was studying computer science and math.
From 21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma | TechCrunch
Dylan’s Idea for Figma at 2013
“So the idea is to basically let people express themselves creatively online. So I think everyone has this inner artist, and we suppress that artist because our taste is so high but our skill level is a little lower. But I think the delta between that can be changed, fixed with technology. What we’re doing immediately is an in-browser photo editor.”
From 21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma | TechCrunch
From 21-Year-Old
Figma’s first intro Video
From www.google.com
From Why Figma Wins - kwokchain
From Why Figma Wins - kwokchain
Figma 1.0.0
Our first general public release!
Multiplayer editing is now available for all users
"Figma Mirror" is now available for iOS from the App Store
Figma now integrates with Zeplin! Read more here
From Figma Releases
Thursday, October 19, 2017
From Figma Releases
Thursday, October 12, 2017
From Figma Releases
Reflecting on Figma’s First YearIntroducing Figma’s Live Embed KitFrom Figma Releases
Figma API
From Figma Releases
Figma API
From Figma Releases
We now have a Figma API Explorer!
From Figma Releases
From Figma Releases
Dylan & his team spent two whole year building the alpha version.
FigmaLet design meet Internet:
for the first time, a design tool runs on browser
Releases 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Figma Live Embed Kit! Learn more and view the implementation guide
From Figma Releases
Team Library 1.0
From Figma Releases
Team Library 1.0Present designs and prototypes – Figma Help CenterAdvanced Project Permissions for design systemsFigma 1.0 officially Launched: Let’s Collaborate
Figma published over 50 versions in 2017, with many many key features
Error: Page Not FoundFigma Releases: ✨ Introducing FigJam for iPad, your space to think out loudFigma Releases: 🧩 Paste Jira and Asana links as widgetsReleased Feature 2021
Figma Releases: 🌲 Branching in Figma is here!Figma Releases: 📽️ Bring context and inspiration into FigJamFigma's Series EAdobe - Adobe to Acquire FigmaFunding News
All - Source
Source - 2012
SaaS Startup Story- Figma - SaastituteFigma revenue is $190M, valuation more than $20BFigma Releases: Figma 1.0.0Figma Yearbook
Figma revenue is $190M, valuation more than $20BFigma revenue is $190M, valuation more than $20BNumbers
Figma revenue is $190M, valuation more than $20BFigma revenue is $190M, valuation more than $20BFigma revenue is $190M, valuation more than $20BReflecting on Figma’s First Yearembed live Figma designs into JIRA and Trello!
From Figma Releases
have an emoji picker for comments
From Figma Releases
integration with Dropbox Paper! Read more here
From Figma Releases
Zooming is much faster and smoother! Expect further improvements soon!
Reduced memory usage for large files
From Figma Releases
Figma 2.0: Prototyping and Developer Handoff!
From Figma Releases
Comments can now be attached to frames, components, instances and groups
From Figma Releases
New Presentation mode
From Figma Releases
You can now drag foldes into Figma.
From Figma Releases
2013 - 14 Alpha Development
Acquired by Figma
Financial
Hit $220M in Revenue
Acquired by Adobe valued at $20 Billion
Product
Introducing FigJam for iPad, your space to think out loud
Paste Jira and Asana links as widgets
Product
Launched on Product hunt
Golden Kitty Avards 2019
Video: What is Figma
How Figma built its inftrastructure
Post from Figma CTO
Product
🖥 Design like you code with Auto Layout
🔎 New Deep Search
🗂 New Offline Autosave and Improved Reordering in the Properties Panel
Numbers
Hit $40M in Revenue
Raises $50M let by A16Z
Pre-Money Valuation: $2B
Product
⭐️️ Introducing FigJam
🌳 Branching in Figma is here!
️▶️ Interactive components are here! Plus more prototyping updates
📖 Context in FigJam
Now you can paste a link to a video, doc, site, or playlist, and FigJam will expand it into an in-line preview. Note: live previews will only work for Figma links and public links.
📱 Stay mobile with Figma
Financial
Hit $95M in Revenue
Series E: Raised $200M from Durable Capital Partners
Pre-Money Valuation: $9.8B
Insights
Collaboration is happening Globally
With 83% of Figma users based outside of the U.S., nearly 14% of file collaboration happens between different continents—up from 8% at the beginning of 2020
From Frame 2021: design by the numbers
Product
Design: Meet the Internet
Dylan’s first essay (Launch on Medium)
We quickly realized the biggest pain point designers face on a day-to-day basis is collaboration with their teams. These problems are further exacerbated because the role of the designer is more cross-functional than ever before. Designers are at the center of the organization: on any given day they might find themselves sharing assets with another designer, adjusting copy for marketing or making redlines for an engineer. While engineers have built all sorts of tools which make it easy for them to work as a team, designers are still in the dark ages when it comes to collaborative workflows. From designing to commenting to sharing to storing, no single tool tackles the entire workflow in one place.
From medium.com
Insights
FIgma’s Collaboration happens not just between designers
developers and PMs can also collaborate along design workflow
Finance
Hit $15M in Revenue
Series C: Raised $40M from Sequoia
Post-Money Valuation: $400M
Figma Timeline
Financial
Series A: Raised 14 Million from Greylock
Valuation: $34.4M
2017 - Build Build Build
2018 - Became Platform
2015 - Let Design Meet Internet
2015 - Let Design Meet Internet
Feature List
Integration
Zeplin
Jira
Trello
Dropbox
Embeds
Twitter
Medium
Reddit
Team Library
Presentation Mode
Advanced Project Permission
Pages
Product
Launched Figma Platform
a way to improve design workflows by connecting Figma to other tools, scripts and even web apps. We’re starting off with a new concept for the design space: A web API.
Performance: 3X Faster
Community Resource Hub
Financial
Hit $4M in Revenue
Figma Raises $25 Million Series B Led by Kleiner Perkins
From Figma Raises $25 Million Series B Led by Kleiner Perkins