Figma’s New AI Sidekick Wants to Make Your Meetings Awesome

Tired of boring, pointless meetings? What if your design app could just make them, well, not suck? That’s what Figma’s promising with its new AI buddy, FigJam.

FigJam is Figma’s first native AI tool that lives on its digital whiteboard. It uses AI like ChatGPT to generate templates, agendas, charts – anything to make meetings more efficient and engaging.

We’ve all been there. Staring at a blank screen before a brainstorm, feeling totally uninspired. Or finishing an epic session with no clue how to summarize it. FigJam’s AI is like a personal assistant for your meeting struggles.  

Just tell it stuff like, “I need an agenda for a 30-minute standup with 10 people.” Boom, agenda done. It also nicely tidies up messy brainstorms so you can actually get things done. 

Figma realized people were already using FigJam for fun stuff like games and icebreakers in remote meetings. But creating and recapping all that content was tough. So FigJam’s AI becomes your digital sidekick to handle the boring logistics.

While it won’t make your coworkers more interesting, it saves you time on busywork. You can focus on being creative and collaborative. And it’s easy for anyone to use – no design skills needed.

Figma acquired an AI startup Diagram to help build FigJam’s brain. While others do wild generative art and such, FigJam’s AI handles practical meeting needs. 

It also works directly in your other work apps like Zoom, Google Meet, etc. No switching screens or downloading new software. Figma did demos showing FigJam AI integrating with Adobe’s engine, too.

The bottom line is that FigJam AI wants your meetings to rock. It handles the prep and follow-up so you can geek out on ideas with your team: less grind, more mindmeld.

Give it a spin at the next meeting. Your inner meeting hater may become a believer.