For
Me
In
2024
I started a side project to make remote and hybrid FigJam workshops just a tiny bit better.
So far in my career online workshopping has become a mandatory skill. But rarely do activities run perfectly, especially when you're working with stakeholders or clients who have some sort of barrier to participating in the tool you use. Internet reliability, digital literacy, comfort, firewalls, so many things can interrupt the flow.
I wanted to help fix this, so designed and engineered a FigJam plugin and web app to let participants contribute from their phone.
It's pretty simple, and an example of focusing design on doing one thing really well.
Facilitators start a sesh in FigJam and set some activity defaults. Participants can see or be given the join details, jump in-app or through a link and submit responses to an activity.
I soft-launched this in a public beta early 2025 and am slowly updating it based on feedback on learnings. There's a few key features I want to build before releasing it properly.
There's not much else to say, but I'm proud of how fun this is turning out. I've tried to give it the feeling of a Jackbox game — a sense of presence and fun which naturally extends the feeling of the FigJam's playfulness.