Michele Piccirillo

A lot of people in the Figma community are confused about a change we are making (not yet rolled out to everyone) that requires users to move their drafts to a team. What you should know: 1. You will still have drafts. We are just requiring that you associate your drafts with a team. 2. You can move your drafts to a free team. You don’t need to upgrade. 3. You can still edit your own drafts free of charge. Why are we doing this? The current model is confusing — for individual users, for team admins and for us. This cleans up massive tech and product debt. And it unblocks improvements we want to make to the freelancer experience. A number of people are convinced that the reason we are doing this is because we are trying to force upgrades. By the numbers the vast majority of editors are already collaborating in teams / projects and won’t need to make any billing change. If you collab on more than three files in a team, then yes — you will need to upgrade to a paid team. This is consistent with what has been on our pricing page for the past few years. I’ll likely publish a longer blog post on this early next week but wanted to clear things up now because there’s a lot of misinformation out there. I get that this will be an annoying change for people with a lot of drafts and I’m sorry if that’s you. We are working on a lot of stuff that will make the experience of using Figma so much better — not just for large teams but also for freelancers and individual designers. This change unlocks a bunch of that roadmap. Platform evolution takes time and we keep moving forward step by step. Hope everyone has a restful weekend… will share more next week. Best, Dylan