Code of Conduct

Last updated: July 10, 2020

This Code of Conduct applies to all Figma community spaces, both online and off. Anyone who violates this Code of Conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion Figma. This policy is a "living" document, and subject to refinement and expansion in the future.

Some Figma community spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

Zero Tolerance for Harassment

The Figma community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Harassment includes:

Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names.
Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate.
Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop.
Threats of violence.
Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
Deliberate intimidation.
Stalking or following.
Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
Sustained disruption of discussion.
Unwelcome sexual attention.
Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.
Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
Publication of non-harassing private communication.

Respect Others

Figma prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We reserve the right not to act on complaints regarding:

“Reverse”-isms, including “reverse racism,” “reverse sexism,” and “cisphobia”.
Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
Communicating in a “tone” you don’t find congenial.
Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions.

Be Honest and Transparent

As a member of the Figma Community, we ask that you do not participate anonymously or with a pseudonym. This is a community where we encourage our members to represent themselves authentically, because we seek to foster open, honest, and supportive discussions with a wide variety of Figma customers, partners, and developers. We rely on our community members to notify us of behaviors that are inconsistent with this Code of Conduct.

No Confidential Information

Do not share confidential information. While we want the Figma Community to be open and transparent, it is not an appropriate forum for sharing confidential information of your company.

Not a Marketing Channel

We encourage active participation from all segments of our population including partners, but please do not use the Figma Community for blatant promotion of products or services. Other community members may monitor the community in order to help keep it a trusted and useful environment, free of self-promotion and spam.

Reporting

If you are being harassed by a member of the Figma community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact us at community@figma.com. If the person who is harassing you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will respond as promptly as we can.

This Code of Conduct applies to Figma community spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the Figma community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Figma community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from the Figma community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside of the Figma community spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the Figma community.

In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of the Figma community members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, we may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Figma community spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other Figma community members or the general public.