Projects allow you to group related files together. Team members can access all projects within a team.

• Starter or Education teams: team members can access projects based on their team-level permissions.
• Team or Organization: set permissions at a project level and create view-only or invite-only (private) projects. This allows you to give team members permissions on a project that differ from their team-level permissions.

👀 View-only projects

By default, only the project owner can edit the view-only project. Team members can only view files in this project, even if they have edit permissions on the team.

The project owner can allow team members and external collaborators to edit the project by inviting them to the project with edit permissions.

🔒 Invite-only projects

Invite-only projects are private projects that aren't available to all members of the team. Team members can only access invite-only projects if they are invited to them.

This is perfect for projects which need a smaller group of collaborators, or for confidential products or features. For example: a subset of team members that build and maintain the team's design system.

Learn more about projects →

Create a project

Create a new project from a few places:

• A

  Team

  Create a new project from the team:

  1. From the file browser, click the team name in the sidebar.
  2. Click Project in the menu bar.
• B

  Left sidebar

  Create a new project in a specific team, regardless of what team or project you're viewing in the file browser.

  1. Hover over the team name in the left sidebar.

  2. Click to create a new project.

  3. In the Create new project modal, give the project a memorable name. You can rename a project at any time.

  4. Teams or Organizations can set different permissions for this project. Click Everyone at team name can edit and choose from:

     • Can edit: default project permissions. team members can access the project based on their team-level permissions.
     • Can view: team members can only view files in this project, even if they have edit permissions on
     • Invite-only: only team members or collaborators you invite to the project will be able to access files in this project. Team members won't see this project listed in the team.

     

     Note: Starter and Education teams can only create can edit projects. Team members can access the project based on their team-level permissions.

  5. Click Create project to create the new project.

  6. Figma will open the project page in the file browser. Click the Add a description link on the project page.