Short stories from the making of FigJam
summary
A small cross functional team decides to build FigJam starting in June with a first engineer in September and internal testing in mid‑January with about 100 testers who post 2,000 internal messages reporting bugs like the sticky‑color refresh issue and runaway tiny shapes. The product ships a simplified bottom toolbar, lightweight cursor chat plus a stamp wheel (emotes and votes). Usability fixes include offset pasted objects and lockable backgrounds, and those changes make the whiteboard actually usable for workshops.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:54Why FigJam?
- 2:36A brief history
- 9:23Creating the soul of FigJam
- 18:11Naming FigJam
- 20:29Building with the community
- 24:09Final thoughts
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