The collaborative design tool teams actually love using
By Dylan Field
Dylan and Evan were frustrated that professional design tools were locked to single machines, making real-time collaboration impossible in a remote-first world.
Founded in 2012, raised seed funding in 2013, and launched publicly in 2016 after years of research into browser-based vector rendering.
Early design teams at startups adopted Figma as a lightweight Sketch alternative that let distributed collaborators work simultaneously on the same file.
Figma democratised professional design tooling and proved that complex creative software could live entirely in the browser.
A world where every person who touches a product — designer, developer, PM — works from a single shared canvas.
