Figma is free for students and educators
Figma’s tools are easy to learn and beloved by professionals. High schools, universities and bootcamps get free access to both Figma Design and FigJam whiteboards.
Figma is more than a design platform. It’s a virtual classroom space.
FigJam is an online whiteboard space for meetings, activities, and brainstorms. Perfect for classroom discussions, critiques, and presentations.
Figma is a design tool for UX design, graphic design, and digital illustration. Perfect for making presentations and prototyping software.
Get Figma’s Education Plan in three steps
Get verified to use our Education plan and access all the perks of our paid Pro teams for free.
Create your Figma account using your email address. An email domain from your institution is preferred but not required.
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Create a team with an Education plan to get all of the perks of our Professional plan for free.
Bring Figma to your Chromebooks
US high school students and educators using Chromebooks can receive Figma’s Organization Plan—for free.
With the Education plan, you can design and collaborate with others, without limits
Manage a virtual classroom space for your students and visually collaborate with your colleagues. Create education teams to manage each class, facilitate visual activities, and deliver content.
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Collaborate and design with your classmates, organize your process, and showcase your work. Ideate, design, iterate, prototype, and present. You can do it all in Figma.
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How others are using Figma in their classrooms
Innovative educators are facilitating better learning outcomes for students by using Figma and FigJam to teach design, collaborate in teams, and build community in the classroom.
UX Design Professors Christie Shin and CJ Yeh at FIT share how they approach guided collaboration with Figma to prepare students for real-world environments.
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Design the Future is a global virtual bootcamp connecting high school students, UX professionals, and individuals with disabilities to create accessible designs.
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We sat down with Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field to discuss why he thinks design education is more important than ever.
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