Guides
Current for Studios and Agencies
Current helps facilitate an open and collaborative team culture by giving you a platform to share work in progress early and often. Studios and agencies are so fast moving that it’s super important to know things like: who has a killer talent on your team you can ask to help out with something, knowing what’s happening on other projects in case you need to jump in and cover for someone, what amazing new creative your colleagues are doing for another client that could inspire your work. Current helps with this by giving everyone a platform to see the work happening across your company. Here’s our Guide on how to best use Current at your studio or agency.
Leander Lenzing
“Current has been a game-changer for our design team. The automatic Weekly Drop, seamlessly integrated into our workflow, keeps everyone in the loop across all projects. It empowers our interdisciplinary remote team across Europe for efficient collaboration.”
“Current has been a game-changer for our design team. The automatic Weekly Drop, seamlessly integrated into our workflow, keeps everyone in the loop across all projects. It empowers our interdisciplinary remote team across Europe for efficient collaboration.”
Agree as a team how you want organize your posts in Current
“Streams” are the primary way for you and your team to organize posts within Current. You can think of Streams like tags but with a few added extras. Properties include - descriptions, the ability to bookmark links, membership and privacy options.
For Agencies and Studios, we recommend mapping Streams to your client names, or the project names for those clients. For example, if you were working with Nike, Pfizer, and Sony you streams could simply be: # Nike, # Pfizer, and # Sony
If your agency is larger and has multiple projects happening simultaneously for certain clients, then there are a few other approaches you could take:
Create Streams for company and for project names, and add posts to both
Skip the company names, and just use project names
Create stream names with the company name included:
Nike / Shop
Nike / Running
Nike / Skateboarding
If things start to feel disorganized, Current has features that allow you to merge, rename, or archive streams to help tidy things up quickly. Watch video →
Establish your team rituals around sharing
We’ve added two key features to help establish good habits around sharing and reviewing work:
Weekly Slack Reminders
As an admin or owner in a workspace, you can set up Slack reminders to ping one or more channels on whatever day you think makes most sense for your team. We recommend sharing an encouraging message to remind people why it’s important to share what they’ve accomplished for the week. One thing to remember is that this should be before the “Weekly Drop” gets shared out with the team (see next section).
The Weekly Drop
The “Weekly Drop” is Current’s AI-powered newsletter. This summarizes your team’s week and automatically shares it with all members of your workspace.
You can select which day your Weekly Drop gets shared. We recommend it comes after the Weekly Slack Reminders are sent. We've found Friday afternoon, or Monday morning is the best time to ensure everyone’s work gets included.
An additional feature of Weekly Drops is the ability to share a public link. This lets you share the Drop with Execs or VPs within the company that want to be kept in the loop but without an account. If privacy is a concern we recommend inviting them to the workspace and disabling most notifications.
Broadcast your posts to Slack
Whether you’re using the web app, or the Figma Plugin, to create posts on Current, you can select one or more Slack channels in which to broadcast your posts in. This is a quick easy way to loop in multiple stakeholders.
Use Drops to recap your work over a period of time
Current allows you to filter posts in your workspace by a specific time period, Streams, or teammates. This is great for creating summaries of work during review cycles or at the end of a project. You can even use AI to generate a summary of all the work.
Share Streams with your clients
Traditionally studios and agencies don’t want to share work with clients until it’s done. But, there’s no easier way to get a client to approve something than if they think it’s their own idea. And that’ll only happen if you’re sharing ideas early and often. Using Current sets the precedent that this is the work as it’s happening, not once it’s done. You can easily do this by creating a public link for your stream:
We hope you found this guide useful. If have any other questions about how Current works or how to best use it in your company feel free to hit us up at hello@current.so, or book some time to chat with us in person.
Agree as a team how you want organize your posts in Current
“Streams” are the primary way for you and your team to organize posts within Current. You can think of Streams like tags but with a few added extras. Properties include - descriptions, the ability to bookmark links, membership and privacy options.
For Agencies and Studios, we recommend mapping Streams to your client names, or the project names for those clients. For example, if you were working with Nike, Pfizer, and Sony you streams could simply be: # Nike, # Pfizer, and # Sony
If your agency is larger and has multiple projects happening simultaneously for certain clients, then there are a few other approaches you could take:
Create Streams for company and for project names, and add posts to both
Skip the company names, and just use project names
Create stream names with the company name included:
Nike / Shop
Nike / Running
Nike / Skateboarding
If things start to feel disorganized, Current has features that allow you to merge, rename, or archive streams to help tidy things up quickly. Watch video →
Establish your team rituals around sharing
We’ve added two key features to help establish good habits around sharing and reviewing work:
Weekly Slack Reminders
As an admin or owner in a workspace, you can set up Slack reminders to ping one or more channels on whatever day you think makes most sense for your team. We recommend sharing an encouraging message to remind people why it’s important to share what they’ve accomplished for the week. One thing to remember is that this should be before the “Weekly Drop” gets shared out with the team (see next section).
The Weekly Drop
The “Weekly Drop” is Current’s AI-powered newsletter. This summarizes your team’s week and automatically shares it with all members of your workspace.
You can select which day your Weekly Drop gets shared. We recommend it comes after the Weekly Slack Reminders are sent. We've found Friday afternoon, or Monday morning is the best time to ensure everyone’s work gets included.
An additional feature of Weekly Drops is the ability to share a public link. This lets you share the Drop with Execs or VPs within the company that want to be kept in the loop but without an account. If privacy is a concern we recommend inviting them to the workspace and disabling most notifications.
Broadcast your posts to Slack
Whether you’re using the web app, or the Figma Plugin, to create posts on Current, you can select one or more Slack channels in which to broadcast your posts in. This is a quick easy way to loop in multiple stakeholders.
Use Drops to recap your work over a period of time
Current allows you to filter posts in your workspace by a specific time period, Streams, or teammates. This is great for creating summaries of work during review cycles or at the end of a project. You can even use AI to generate a summary of all the work.
Share Streams with your clients
Traditionally studios and agencies don’t want to share work with clients until it’s done. But, there’s no easier way to get a client to approve something than if they think it’s their own idea. And that’ll only happen if you’re sharing ideas early and often. Using Current sets the precedent that this is the work as it’s happening, not once it’s done. You can easily do this by creating a public link for your stream:
We hope you found this guide useful. If have any other questions about how Current works or how to best use it in your company feel free to hit us up at hello@current.so, or book some time to chat with us in person.