Figma for students and educators | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Figma’s Education plan gives students and educators free access to Professional features and unlimited collaboration. The platform supports virtual and hybrid classrooms by combining teaching materials, activities, critiques, and community in one shared space. It also helps students build practical design skills, portfolios, and professional connections.

Figma for Educators

• Figma enables real-time and asynchronous participation, making it useful for in-person, remote, and hybrid teaching.
• Educators can consolidate lectures, assignments, activities, and critiques into a single file with multiple pages.
• Shared files encourage iteration and feedback, helping quieter students participate more actively.
• Visual collaboration can create a more inclusive classroom environment, including for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
• Teachers can use Figma to build community, such as creating collaborative class yearbooks with comments, stickers, and student profiles.
• Figma offers group demos and shared teaching resources to help educators adopt the platform.

Figma for Students

• Working collaboratively in Figma exposes students to modern, cross-functional design workflows used in professional settings.
• Students can preserve research, iterations, and design process—not just final visuals—for portfolio reviews and interviews.
• Figma Community files allow students to learn through duplication, remixing, and studying other designers’ work.
• Student groups, hackathons, and other community programs provide opportunities to build relationships and gain experience.
• Education newsletters highlight career-related topics such as hiring preparation, portfolio reviews, and internships.

Figma recommends that students and educators use the free Education plan to create collaborative classrooms, document design processes, and connect with the wider design community.