How Workday scales design and development collaboration with Figma

With over 18,000 employees spread across Europe, Asia Pacific, and the United States, Workday has transformed their global design and development workflow using Figma. Their design leadership explains how Figma's collaborative features and Dev Mode help their teams work together more effectively.

Enhancing cross-functional collaboration

"Figma has been invaluable to us in being able to show, not tell about our work," explains Tammy Snow, VP of Research, Analytics, & Design at Workday. "Being able to bring our cross-functional partners into the process with us - it's actually been a game changer."

The impact is especially clear in FigJam's real-time collaboration tools. UX Director Chris Hall loves how easy it is to get started: "You can just literally make one click and have a brainstorm created for you, and to be able to go into the same doc, communicate really quickly on an idea across time zones, it makes us so much more efficient."

Maintaining design system consistency

For enterprise software development, maintaining consistent patterns is crucial. Hall emphasizes how Figma supports their design system: "It allows our designers to start from a place where all of the small details are already done, and they can get faster to solving problems and not have to worry about the minor details."

Streamlining developer handoff with Dev Mode

Dev Mode has revolutionized how designs become real products. "I love that it allows us to hand off the design directly to the developer in a way that will minimize and reduce any changes or misalignment in what was designed and what actually gets coded," says Snow. The result? Better experiences for Workday's 65 million users worldwide.