There are open-source fonts and freely available illustrations, but plenty of companies don't want to see others copying their aesthetic.ĭesigns commonly are protected by copyright and trademark restrictions, but the Figma Community uses the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license that explicitly permits you to reuse a work, even for commercial purposes, as long as you attribute the work to the original creator.įigma lets people design the look of apps and websites and create prototypes that show how users will move through them - for example, how clicking on a button will take them to a different screen. Just as happened with open-source software, the Figma Community site inverts decades-old intellectual property restrictions.Īlthough open-source software matured from countercultural movement to mainstream programming method over the last two decades, embraced by everybody from Google to former foe Microsoft, it's not clear whether design will follow a similar trajectory. For example, companies can show off their projects to attract designers, and designers can promote themselves to would-be employers. And though "there are a lot of noneconomic reasons to contribute to a community," Figma Community fits in with some financial motivations to share, too, Field said. With the Figma Community, designers will be able to set up profile pages and peer into others' designs to see how they were done. "We're trying to bring more open source to design," said Figma Chief Executive and co-founder Dylan Field. Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018. It serves as a collaboration tool, a resume and a public resource. Giving work away for free may sound bizarre when digital designers are in high demand, but a similar phenomenon happened with GitHub, a site where programmers can share open-source code they've written. The idea behind the Figma Community site is to let people connect to and learn from one another while showing off their own work. Figma's editor works through its app or web interface.įigma, an online service that lets designers and design teams work together on projects such as mobile apps, is now letting people share their work publicly for others to scrutinize and modify.
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