What’s new in Figma: December 2021 | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)
Figma’s December 2021 updates focus on making collaboration and creation more seamless across Figma and FigJam. The release adds richer media support, improved drawing tools, and expanded mobile capabilities. Together, these changes help teams share context, refine ideas, and preview designs without interrupting their workflow. ## Enriching FigJam collaboration - Users can paste links into FigJam to watch Vimeo videos, play Spotify music, and share other rich media. - The new Vimeo plugin supports screen and webcam recordings directly within Figma and FigJam. - Recordings can be used for status updates, product demos, tutorials, and asynchronous collaboration. ## Highlighting and refining ideas - The new **Highlighter** tool emphasizes text and other FigJam elements. - Holding **Shift** while highlighting creates perfectly straight lines. - The **Eraser** tool removes individual strokes, making it easier to correct sketches and refine work in progress. ## Expanding mobile design workflows The updated Figma mobile app lets designers preview, review, and manage work more independently from a desktop. - Play prototypes directly on mobile devices. - Toggle hotspot hints during prototype playback. - Mirror selected desktop frames to a mobile device. - Share, browse, and view Figma files and prototypes. - Share, browse, and view FigJam files. - Navigate teams, projects, and workspaces from the app. - Updates are available for iOS and Android phones and tablets. Figma’s December release is primarily about removing friction from collaboration: teams can communicate with richer media, improve FigJam ideation with more precise tools, and validate mobile experiences directly on their devices.