Your Figma Brief is Done. Now What? The Problem with Sharing.

Figma is an exceptional tool for creating detailed, collaborative design briefs. Many teams pour hours into crafting the perfect document, aligning stakeholders, and defining project scope. But a critical friction point emerges the moment you're ready to share it outside your internal team. The focus shifts from creation to delivery, and the existing methods are surprisingly broken.

The Friction After 'Export'

Let's be clear: the problem isn't Figma. The problem is the container we put the work in after it's done. The two most common methods for sharing a Figma brief with clients or external partners each have significant drawbacks.

1. Exporting to PDF: This feels like a safe, standard option, but it immediately degrades the value of your work. The document becomes static, losing any interactive elements. If a client wants a small change, you have to go back to Figma, make the edit, export a new PDF (v2, v3, v_final_final), and resend the file. This creates version chaos and clogs up inboxes. Furthermore, the viewing experience on mobile is often a frustrating exercise in pinching and zooming.
2. Sharing a Direct Figma Link: While this provides access to the live document, it's often overkill and confusing for non-designers. You're inviting clients into a complex design tool when all they need to do is review and approve a document. It raises questions of security and control, and you have no way to know if they actually reviewed the specific frames you intended or got lost exploring the canvas.

In both cases, you're left in the dark. You send the document and hope for the best, with no insight into whether it was opened, which sections were read, or how engaged the recipient was.

The Solution: Share the Document, Not the File

What if you could keep your creation workflow in Figma but fundamentally change the sharing experience? The solution is to move from file-based sharing to link-based sharing. Instead of attaching a heavy PDF or sending a raw tool link, you share a single, intelligent web link that hosts your document. This approach decouples the document from the file format, allowing for a professional, trackable, and easily updatable delivery method. The modern workflow is moving towards link-based document sharing.

How Featpaper Solves the Figma Sharing Problem

Featpaper is a service designed specifically to solve this after-sharing friction. You continue to design your brief in Figma, but instead of exporting a PDF, you use Featpaper to turn it into a trackable web link.

• From File to Link: Your client receives a clean, professional link. The document opens instantly in their browser, perfectly rendered for both desktop and mobile—no downloads, no accounts, no pinch-to-zoom.
• Gain Total Visibility: The moment your client opens the link, you're notified. You can see which pages they read, how much time they spent on key sections like the budget or timeline, and when they come back to review it again. This is invaluable feedback that's impossible to get from a file.
• Update Without Resending: Notice a typo or need to update the scope? Just update the document in Featpaper. The client uses the exact same link to see the latest version. No more 'v2' or 'v_final' attachments.

Ready to change how you share Figma briefs? Deliver them as a professional, trackable link with Featpaper and see the difference. Keep your workflow—change only the sharing method.

A Realistic Agency Scenario

Imagine you're a design agency that has just finalized a creative brief in Figma for a new client. The Old Way: You export a PDF and email it. A day goes by with no reply. You send a follow-up email: "Did you get a chance to look at the brief?" You have no idea if they're busy, if the email got buried, or if they hate the proposal. The Featpaper Way: You share the brief using a Featpaper link. Fifteen minutes later, you get a notification that the client has opened it. You see in the analytics that they spent five minutes on the 'Key Deliverables' page but only 30 seconds on the 'Competitor Analysis'. In your follow-up call, you know exactly where to focus the conversation. When they ask for a minor budget adjustment, you update it, and they can see the change instantly on the same link. The process is smooth, professional, and data-driven. Your great work in Figma deserves a delivery method to match. ▶ Share Your Figma Briefs the Smart Way