For educators and students
Education
A real design tool that runs in the browser on a $0 plan: students open industry-standard .fig files, edit together in critiques and learn hand-off the way product teams actually practice it.
- Runs in the browser — no installs, no lab imaging
- Starter is $0; personal drafts are free forever
- Real .fig files — the format studios actually use
Why design classes fight their tools
Licenses and education tiers change year to year, and course plans break with them.
Lab machines need installs and updates, while students' own laptops run three different operating systems.
Student work vanishes when trials expire or accounts lapse at semester's end.
Teaching on watered-down tools leaves graduates relearning everything at their first job.
What makes it classroom-ready
Industry files, student budgets
The economics of a design course rarely survive contact with professional tooling. Tuvi's floor is genuinely zero: personal drafts are free forever, and a Starter team — 3 editors, 1 project, 10 files — costs nothing, which fits a studio group or a thesis project without a procurement conversation. There is no expiring education trial to re-negotiate every autumn, because the free tier is simply part of the product.
The tooling is professional all the way down, not a teaching imitation. Students work with real .fig files — the format working studios exchange — with the same auto-layout, components and live collaboration they will meet in industry. And because everything runs in the browser, 'setting up the lab' means opening a URL: no installs, no lab imaging, no version drift between machines — and older hardware still participates, thanks to an automatic simplified drawing mode.
Critique as a live session
Group critique is where design education happens, and multiplayer changes its texture: the whole class inside one document, cursors visible, comments pinned to the exact frame under discussion instead of read aloud from notes. Iterations happen in branches — a student explores a direction without destroying the previous one, and the merge shows the class precisely what changed and why.
The same mechanics quietly teach professional workflow: in-context feedback, branch-based iteration, Ready-for-Dev thinking about when work is finished. When the semester ends, nothing evaporates — personal drafts stay free forever, and portfolios export as PNG, SVG or PDF.
Frequently asked questions
What does a class actually pay?
Nothing to start: personal drafts are free forever, and each Starter team is $0 for up to 3 editors, 1 project and 10 files. There is no separate education program to apply for — the free tier is a permanent part of the product, not a trial.
Will it run on student laptops and lab machines?
Yes — Tuvi runs in the browser, so it works across operating systems on whatever laptops students already own. Older machines automatically get a simplified drawing mode that keeps files usable. Nothing is installed either way.
Can students work with real-world design files?
Yes. Tuvi opens .fig files directly — components, styles and auto-layout intact — so coursework can use actual product files and community resources, and student work stays in an industry-standard format culture.
What happens to student work after the semester?
It survives by default: personal drafts are free forever regardless of any team or plan, and everything exports as PNG, JPEG, SVG or PDF for portfolios. No expiring account takes a term's work with it.