Case Study: Figma scales enterprise authorization with WorkOS

Figma scales authorization from day one to Fortune 50 in 8–10 years with WorkOS

The customer Figma faced the challenge of scaling its authorization system to meet the complex and evolving access control demands of its growing enterprise customer base. As Figma's product matured, it needed to support everything from simple roles to complex, multi-dimensional permission graphs and IDP automation, a feature that is notoriously difficult to build and requires multiple complete re-architectures over time.

WorkOS, through its AuthKit product, provided a solution designed to abstract this complexity into a simple, unified interface that evolves gracefully with a company's needs. This allowed Figma to future-proof its authorization layer, avoiding the need for costly and time-consuming complete rewrites at each new stage of scale and ensuring it could meet the stringent security and compliance requirements of its largest enterprise customers.

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