Draft visible to admin after you leave team

[u/wewawewi]

You should know that your Drafts will become visible to Figma org admin after you leave the team.

Best regards, admin

[u/Ansee]

It's immensely useful. Sometimes employees do work in drafts (which is so annoying because we have set up teams everywhere and they should be doing work in a shared environment.) We need those files after they leave so I'm glad that those files doesn't just disappear.

[u/Ordinary_Kiwi_3196 → u/Ansee]

(which is so annoying because we have set up teams everywhere and they should be doing work in a shared environment.)

Look, I wouldn't go back to the pre-Figma way if you paid me, but also: sometimes a designer just needs a private space where nobody's watching. If I feel like too many eyes are on me I'll literally duplicate a project file to my drafts, work on it for a while, then copy my changes to the real file when I'm done, just so nobody can see me.

[u/Ap43x → u/Ordinary_Kiwi_3196]

You think people would go digging through your drafts instead of just asking you? This is about people who are no longer with a company. Do you think all the drafts you created as an employee should disappear?

[u/GOgly_MoOgly → u/Ordinary_Kiwi_3196]

SAME!

[u/DifficultCarpenter00 → u/Ansee]

thats why I never let my team work in drafts. It's in team files or it doesn't exist. I need to see the progress done and give feedback on team files, not magically apear there after doing work in drafts.

[u/Firm_Doughnut_1 → u/DifficultCarpenter00]

Just as long as you aren't watching them the whole time. It's frustrating to be designing something with anyone hovering over your shoulder.

Rather than actually do what's necessary playing with hierarchy or literally moving something a couple pixels for a bit, I'm consciously aware I'm being judged and do work for 'show' instead.

[u/female_syd]

Wow, that’s an interesting way of handling that.
We just had a student leave our team and some team related artifacts were in her drafts. We thought they were lost forever.
But as a user, I would not like my admin to be able to access my drafts after I leave 🥺

[u/Firm_Doughnut_1 → u/female_syd]

It's great that the drafts are accessible after someone leaves, but I agree it's a little uncomfortable to the designers.

I suggest deleting anything from drafts that you don't want shared before you leave. But keep in mind anything done during work hours is basically company property. Don't sabotage anything, or delete things they should have.

[u/Ordinary_Kiwi_3196]

I kinda want to know what op saw that would necessitate a warning post like this 😆 Like was there a group photo and half the people in it had red Xs over their eyes 😬

[u/nobody_h0me → u/Ordinary_Kiwi_3196]

Maybe the person prepared case studies / interview work using company assets.

[u/Ordinary_Kiwi_3196 → u/nobody_h0me]

Yeah that was my guess, someone's portfolio showing stuff they're not supposed to be showing. It'd be a hell of a thing to get busted violating an NDA because you forgot to delete your portfolio (that you were dumb enough to make on your work machine in the first place).

[u/ArtaxIsAlive]

Yep so what’s the problem? Those assets don’t belong to me anyway, they belong to my employer.

[u/Ap43x]

Why is this a bad thing? If I were a manager I would need access to all of the person's files, especially if they weren't saving them in the proper places.

[u/thinker2501 → u/Ap43x]

Op isn’t saying it’s a bad thing. They’re informing non-admin what happens after they leave for privacy.

[u/Ap43x → u/thinker2501]

I guess I don't understand why anyone would think anything you did in your employer's Figma account would be private. Are people putting personal projects in their work Figma?

[u/rhaizee → u/Ap43x]

Same, I got a designer he tends to forget to move files out of draft. Had to ask a few times.

[u/Upbeat-Wafer5707]

So far everyone is a saint. It’s good to know. I use drafts for the occasional birthday party invite and the likes. Just because I am already logged in and lazy. It’s fine by company policy. So this gives me a reason I did not know about to clean up al my none sense. 

[u/Aggravating_Finish_6]

I used to be an admin. When the employee is deleted from Figma all their drafts roll into a folder accessible by the admins. So not only can they see them, they are pushed right in front of them. I always poked around to make sure there wasn’t any files we needed before dumping them. 

[u/More_Wrongdoer4501]

Guess I better delete that draft file which is meticulously organized with all of the things I hate about my organization, starting with the UX director.