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In this tutorial, we will investigate real-time collaboration to design vibrotactile feedback. We focus on how participants communicate their intent using different mediums such as verbal communication, gestures and tactile messages (tactons). To facilitate and understand this design experience, we built CollabJam – a real-time remote collaboration toolkit – using a vibrotactile device with four actuators that one can attach freely to their body. As different local setups connect remotely, this creates a distributed collaborative design space. Thus, CollabJam enables individual participants to control and actuate multiple local and remote devices simultaneously to share tactons. We will host hands-on sessions with groups consisting of 2–3 members. The participants can interact freely with the device in co-located and remote environments and perform tasks given by the organizers. Afterward, participants' collective shared experience will be discussed. We expect this tutorial to uncover insights on the communications patterns being used to design tactons collaboratively.