Whether for a full-on branding overhaul or simple updates to a logo design or campaign, use FigJam templates to communicate your brilliant design ideas with stunning clarity.
Collectively spark new design ideas and build upon existing ones—together.
Effective communication, creative collaboration, and a shared understanding lead to cohesive design decisions and outcomes that align with your vision.
Look at the big picture: Establish a shared understanding of the design’s overall purpose, important milestones, must-have style elements, and more.
Get on the same page: Create a long-lasting, productive partnership between client and designer by aligning your ideas at the start of the design process.
Ensure smooth collaboration: Set up a point of reference so all parties can quickly remind themselves of the project's goals—and make sure they don’t veer off course.
Behind every successful design is an entire creative community. Involve everyone’s input in the process with our shared workspaces and interactive stamps, emotes, and Lil Notes. Once you’ve built a foundation of collaboration with your creative team, you can build a working design brief that the whole team can get behind.
Create a design that checks all the boxes with our design brief template. Then, use your design objectives, overall vision, and our interactive templates to guide every step of the creative process.
Bring your design brief to life with a product mockup plan.
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A design brief (also known as a creative brief) is a document that outlines the needs of a visual design, used to facilitate communication and ensure clarity between a designers, or multiple teams working together on a creative campaign or project.
A design brief template includes logistical details-the specific deliverables, creative assets, and budget or timeline constraints-as well as insights about the visuals themselves and how they'll be used-the campaigns goals, target audience, guidelines, tonality, competitors, and more.
Writing an effective design brief is a collaborative process. Start with a creative design brief template that everyone on your team- and external teams, if desired-can freely edit and access. Some teams will create their briefs internally then share them with the creative agency or freelance designers working on the project, while other groups might choose to collaborate in the design process from the very first touchpoint: the brief itself.
In either case, you'll want to start with the big-picture, then zoom in to touch on more granular design elements, details and requirements, based on what will resonate with your audience and convey your message clearly. With FigJam's editable template, it's easy to add visual elements and inspirational images, in addition to writing descriptive text, so feel free to exercise a multi-media approach.
In terms of what makes a good design brief, both high-level ideas and the nitty-gritty details matter. Whether it's graphic design, web design, or other creative work, generally a sample design brief will include the following sections:
Not sure where to start? Follow our simple example of a design brief. FigJam's design brief includes all the essentials for a successful project so you can jump in whenever inspiration strikes. Also, check out the community section of our website that has additional design brief templates built by the Figma community.
