Stop Exporting: A Better Way to Share Your Figma Product Catalog

Many design teams use Figma to build beautiful, detailed product catalogs. Its powerful components and variants system makes creating and managing a product showcase a streamlined process. But a critical point of friction appears the moment you need to share that catalog with people outside the design team, like sales, marketing, or external clients.

The Friction After You Click 'Export'

The problem isn't with Figma; it's with the outdated process of sharing design work. Once your catalog is ready, you fall back on old habits that create new problems.

• Exporting to PDF: This is the most common method, but it immediately kills any interactivity you designed. The file is static, often large and difficult to email, and provides a poor viewing experience on mobile devices.
• Sharing a Direct Figma Link: This approach overwhelms non-designers. They may not have a Figma account or understand how to navigate the interface, leading to confusion and frustration. You're asking stakeholders to learn a tool just to view a document.
• Version Control Chaos: What happens when a price changes or a product is updated? You have to find the original design, export a new file, and resend it to everyone, telling them to ignore the previous version. This leads to catalog_v3_final.pdf and catalog_v4_final_final.pdf floating around, causing costly mistakes.
• Zero Feedback: You send the file out and hear nothing back. You have no idea if your partners or sales team even opened the catalog, let alone which products they found interesting.

A Better Direction: Link-Based Document Sharing

Instead of exporting a static file or sharing a complex design tool link, there's a more modern approach: sharing your catalog as a single, intelligent web link. This method decouples the final presentation from the design tool, giving you control and insight after you share. This modern approach is best handled by a dedicated link-sharing service that bridges the gap between design and delivery, without altering your creative workflow.

How Featpaper Changes the Sharing Experience

Featpaper is a service designed to solve this exact problem. It transforms how you deliver documents by moving from file-sharing to link-sharing. You still design in Figma, but the delivery method becomes smarter.

• One Link, Always Updated: Export your catalog and upload it to Featpaper. You get one simple link to share. When you need to make an update, you just replace the file in Featpaper. The link never changes and always shows the latest version. No more version chaos.
• Actionable Analytics: See who opened your catalog, which pages they spent the most time on, and how much they read. This feedback is invaluable for understanding what's resonating with your audience.
• View Without Downloads: Recipients can view the catalog instantly in any browser, on any device. No need to download large files or have special software. The experience is clean, professional, and fast.

Ready to change how you share your Figma designs? Instead of wrestling with exports and version control, deliver your product catalog with a single, intelligent link using Featpaper.

Realistic Usage Scenario: From Messy to Managed

Before Featpaper: A furniture brand's design team creates their seasonal catalog in Figma. They export a 100MB PDF and send it via a file transfer service to their global sales team. The next day, marketing flags a typo on a key product page. The designers frantically update the Figma file, re-export, and send out a new link, creating confusion and wasting time. After Featpaper: The same team finalizes the catalog and uploads it to Featpaper, sharing a single link (featpaper.io/brand/spring-collection) in their company Slack. When the typo is discovered, a designer simply re-uploads the corrected export to Featpaper. The link is automatically updated. They can also see from the analytics dashboard that the sales team in Europe is focusing heavily on the new outdoor furniture pages, giving them valuable, actionable insight for their next meeting. > Try Sharing Your Figma Catalog the Better Way <