Stickies
A Figma plugin for collaborative sticky-note workflows — 1,200+ designers
Designers were hacking sticky notes with rectangles and text boxes — losing speed and breaking flow during collaborative sessions.
Teams were constantly switching between Miro and Figma, losing context every time they crossed the tab boundary.
A lightweight plugin that creates color-coded, auto-grouped sticky notes directly on the canvas.
- One-click creation — no configuration, just stickies
- Auto-clustering — drag stickies near each other and they group
- Color coding — 8 preset colors for affinity mapping
- Export to table — copy all stickies as structured text for synthesis
Good tools don't ask for permission; they enable flow. My goal was to build something that felt like a natural extension of the manual thought process.
I focused on frictionless entry — reducing the gap between having an idea and placing it on the canvas. The design removes all unnecessary hierarchy, treating every note as equal and every action as immediate.
Seeing 1,200+ strangers use something you built in a weekend is surreal. The biggest lesson: simplicity compounds. Every feature request I declined made the plugin better. The instinct to add always has to be weighed against the cost of complexity.