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What’s new in Figma: July 2022 | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

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Figma’s July 2022 updates focus on strengthening collaboration, expanding global support, and making community resources easier to discover. The company introduced research on effective teamwork, launched a fully localized Japanese experience, and redesigned Figma Community browsing and search. Together, these changes aim to help teams collaborate more effectively and find useful resources faster.

Research on Effective Collaboration

  • Figma studied more than 100 teams composed of designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, and writers.
  • The resulting report, What Makes Collaboration Click?, identifies five behaviors associated with better product outcomes:
    • Co-creation
    • Rapport
    • Role clarity
    • Feedback
    • Reflection
  • Figma also announced a livestream featuring product research leaders Cristen Torrey and Andrew Hogan to discuss the findings.

Figma Expands in Japan

  • Figma launched a fully localized Japanese product interface, website, and help center.
  • The company opened a Tokyo office and hired local leadership to support Japanese users and the regional Figma Community.
  • The expansion reflects Figma’s international user base, with 80% of users located outside the United States.
  • Figma also introduced the Japanese-focused social account @FigmaJapan.

Improving Figma Community Discovery

  • Figma redesigned Community browsing to help users navigate its large collection of shared resources.
  • Users can now more easily distinguish among:
    • Figma and FigJam products
    • Use cases such as design systems
    • Resource types such as files, templates, widgets, and plugins
  • Search received expanded filtering and sorting options.
  • Results can be sorted by trending, most popular, or most recent resources.
  • The changes are intended to make creators’ contributions more discoverable and help users find relevant assets more quickly.

Figma’s July improvements combine better collaboration guidance with practical product changes, particularly stronger international support and more efficient Community search and discovery.