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WhileFigmawaits to find out whetherregulators will allowAdobe to complete its$20 billion acquisition , the inauguration is not sit lazily by . Today , Figma announce it was adding three generative AI features to its FigJam whiteboard instrument to make it easier to get started and direct projects .
FigJam is Figma ’s online collaborative whiteboard that team can use to work on design or other task , and generally organise meetings and ideas . It use a viscous musical note metaphor , and has proved pop with customers since it was released in 2021 .
“ We realized that , as it bear on to FigJam , that there is really a boastful opportunity for us to get really creative around enabling multitude to collaborate and visually reimagine all sort of meetings and thing like that inside of our platform , ” Yuhki Yamashita , Figma ’s chief product police officer told TechCrunch .
In fact , FigJam is actually used by dozens of folks who are not part of their kernel designer user base . “ A lot of people will be surprised , but two - third base of our weekly alive users are not decorator , ” he tell .
Chris Marsh , inquiry conductor at 451 Group , concurs , aver that Figma has tried to approach whiteboarding with with a broad interview in mind . “ Since its concept Figma has thought about FigJam as a place [ where ] unlike architect , merchandise , engineering , merchandising , project owner and other user can collaborate on projects , and that kind of cross - team , higher - value collaboration . ”
That wide mountain chain of users led the company to consider ways to make it easier to use the ware , and they decided to put AI to influence on the problem . For fledgling , they have a tool to help create FigJam circuit card . The blank pallet can be intimidate for new drug user , so they want to make it easier to get begin by creatinga generative AI tool that helps drug user create a fresh control panel from a command prompt . The mind is that when you do n’t know where to begin , you could start out a FigJam template or diagram by describe it , and list different elements you might , need like a calendar and a project timeline .
Once users have a board going , they tend to expend digital sticky notes to post mind or chore ( or anything they wish ) , but as the board grows , it can become ungainly , and the company wanted to offer a simpler elbow room to organize them by sorting the gummy Federal Reserve note into logical thematic grouping like national or person responsible for for completing a task . “ One of the things that we are doing is allowing you to sieve these stickies . So if a designer ran this big brainstorming session around what stuff should we build or what user trouble should we be solving , they can classify those stickies into thematic group , ” he said .
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Finally , when you have a full board , it ’s hard to scroll through all the stickies to get the independent points of the meeting or brainstorming session , so Figma originate a summarize lineament that will automatically engender a summary from the sea of sticky note . “ This is a really useful direction to leverage AI to collect key themes . Whereas before , a [ user ] might have been take a lot of time to really synthesize all the sticky note , ” Yamashita said .
The company is using OpenAI as its large language model and has fine-tune it to understand Figma and FigJam concepts like diagram or calendar object . If user go outside the parameters of their exercise eccentric in a way that could leave in harmful or inappropriate content , Yamashita says they are quiz a warning organization that wo n’t allow them to proceed . He point out that OpenAI has some of those ascendancy as well .
Marsh order that his house ’s late “ Voice of the enterprisingness : Work Execution and Goals 2023 ” study found that 71 % of employees struggle with collaborationism . If that ’s rightful , it ’s possible that these unexampled features could be a starting point to help new users .
Today ’s features will be launched in an unresolved beta starting today .
