Create Stunning Figma Invoice Template for Planning with Ease

Figma invoice template for Planning

on today's episode we're going to talk about fig gem from figma what it is and why I'm so excited about it all of a sudden and how we're using it in flux Academy let's rock and [Music] roll hey designer friends what is up my name is Ron sigle welcome to flux if this is your first time here this is where we cover design and how to make a living as a designer and today I want to talk about a somewhat new design tool it's fig Jam from figma so basically figma you must have you're probably familiar with figma because it's one of the most popular design tool where you can design in the browser and a few months ago they released a new document type called fig Jam which is basically for jamming for kind of like brainstorming together collaborating on documents and originally I wasn't paying too much attention to this because I'm not really into online you know brainstorming session or workshops obviously in 2020 everything became online so that was became very very uh necessary but besides the use case of collaborating and brainstorming with people online I actually recently found it very very um helpful for me to organize my projects and plan out content or other things and I want to show you basically what it is and how we're using it and why I like it so much so basically here you can see it's a very very kind of like simplified version of figma right you can throw in shapes and write stuff there or just add sticky notes so just have a bunch of sticky notes and you can have a lot of them and then you can connect things with lines if you want to create kind of like flowcharts or something like this so overall it looks very very simple right the the tools are super super um intuitive and there's actually very very limited functionality there's not too much that you can do with it and the idea here is that you can have multiple people here and then you can collaborate on all of this together and it's kind of like a shared Google doc now originally I was like okay so why would I need to take notes what am I going to do with this but recently I was really struggling with planning our projects you know flux Academy has become bigger we have more people on the team we have more projects at the same time it was actually a little bit overwhelming now we have project management tools but it was very hard to visualize kind of like road map and what everybody is working on So eventually I just took uh kind of like a a started using fig jam and I've actually found a template for gun chart and I started using it so basically you can see here how I've structured it just using basically rectangulars um kind of outlines the the next few months of the year and basically started using this as a gun chart now all of the different gun chart software that I was trying to use all these project management tools they were so difficult to you had to set up a project and then you had to start a deadline and a start date and it was so complicated and here it was so intuitive cuz it's just a rectangular that you can move around and you can align it to something and so very very easily it gives you um so what I wanted to see here is everybody on our team is working on different project at the same line but I wanted to see when each project is going to be launched to understand kind of like the the launch Cadence of things that we're going to be publishing here and so this very very easily with just you know basic rectangular and coloring them by the type of person like who is working on what you can very very easily see you know how how many what are we going to launch each month you know Bes uh based on who's working on what now this is here it was very easy for me to visualize the Cadence of how much we're launching things um but then here for example I wanted to see who's doing what so I took basically the same framework uh I basically broke it down into the weeks and every month and I took each uh person on the team what projects they're working on at the same time and put that on a timeline so now it's basically the same content but it's structured differently so now I can actually see who's working on what and what's going to happen and um gave me more visibility so I can break down these things uh by project or by you know by timeline or uh it just gives me way way more uh flexibility basically it's so simple you just take a rectangular you put a collar on it you you write something in it and Bam you actually get like a visible gun chart everybody can look at it everybody can move things around very intuitively the second thing that we're using it for is for planning our content so basically I here I created basically a a little calendar and just with sticky notes with colar I can see who is going to publish a video on our channel uh every month and this is great because we can have basically a template and then every month people everybody on our team can come in and just put in the sticky note hey here's the video I want to do and in case we want to we can always move these things around if we need to change make a change in the schedule and again it's so much easier to move things around here and to edit you know hey this is the video I'm recording now um it's so much easier to visualize and plan this way because it's so simple so I what I found is that all of the different project management tool because they're trying to be so robust they become too complicated to use and with something that is so so simplified minimal use of features you can actually build whatever kind of framework you want for managing your project and creating visibility that's important to you so for me it was important to see you know who is making what vide so again we're using very simple colors here to understand what videos I'm making what videos isil will make what videos kabaro will make so again very very simple but it's very very open to creating what you want to do with it and we are collaborating on this doc even if we're not doing it live you know kind of like in a Google doc everybody has access to it and so everybody can edit their own uh project so I'm really really excited about this and I'd love to know what you are using it for yeah probably workshops that's what everybody's using it but if you have a particular uh use case for how you're using fig Jam let me know in the comments below and I will see you on the next video peace out [Music]