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Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
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What is Figma?
Figma is a design platform that aims to bring together powerful design features you already love and a more efficient workflow. Some features include:
Its plugins help to remove manual, repetitive work, bring in data, and power custom workflows.
- A modern pen tool: Draw in any direction with Vector Networks. No more merging or needing to connect to the path's original point.
- Instant arc designs: Design clocks, watch screens, or pie charts with the Arc tool.
- Be expressive with OpenType: Tap into advanced font features to fully express the brand.
Figma's Autom Layout tool helps users spend more time iterating and less time moving things around.
- Less manual resizing: Buttons can resize with their text and lists can rearrange themselves when items are moved around.
- Stretch to fill: Auto Layout components can now stretch left and right (or top and bottom) for easier responsive design.
- Design speaks development: Auto Layout’s padding, direction, and spacing settings translate directly into code, simplifying developer handoffs.
Its plugins help to remove manual, repetitive work, bring in data, and power custom workflows.
- Plugins for everything: Stock imagery, flow diagrams, color accessibility, charts, and icons.
- Designed for ease: A user that can build a website can build a plugin.
- Private plugins: Organization customers can create and distribute private plugins within their company.
Create prototypes that are like the real experience
Figma helps turn static design files into an interactive experience—no coding required.
- Intuitive build: Simply connect UI elements and choose your interactions and animations.
- Interactions: Define subtle interactions, like on click, while hovering, while pressing a button.
- Mobile-viewing: Experience designs in real life using our Figma mobile app, available for iOS and Android.
- Advanced transitions with Smart Animate: Automagically animate similar objects and create detailed transitions.
- Dynamic overlays: Create multiple layers of interactive content overlays.
- Animated GIFs: Use GIFs to represent motion designs, video elements, and subtle animations.
- All-in-one platform: Toggle between a design file and live prototype. Design edits appear instantly in a prototype.
- Shareable prototype: Share a link to your prototype. View it anywhere with Internet.
- Embedded commenting: Comment in a prototype. They carry over into the design file—so nothing gets lost.
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Figma Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
Figma starts at $15.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of Figma are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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I am one of many UX designers, and we use Figma in our organisation as our primary tool for designing all-new products as well as creating new features and improvements to exisiting products. As a team, we love having our core Design System within Figma, which relieves our Visual Designers from redesigning our layouts, and also ensures consistency across our many teams and projects. As a UX designer, I love to use Figma to organise notes, plot out user flows, explore new interactions and throw down quick ideas, building prototypes.
- Design System makes life so much easier and brings consistancy across multiple designers
- Auto Layout is amazing and reduces time alignment and spacing
- I cannot think of any improvements to suggest
May 24, 2024
Realtime collaboration redesigned
All our product designers use figma. It helps our designers build lo fi, hifis and mockups. Which ultimately goes to our engineers to build the feature/product. They use it for wireframing and coming up with multiple iterations. It also helps senior designers see and review features and collaborate with them to build a crisper iteration.
- Realtime collaboration on a particular project where people added to it can view and edit hand offs as needed
- Ability to save reusable components and having a design system with predefined styles and mockups ready to be used anywhere else
- Ability to integrate into other apps like Slack
- Better touchpad shortcuts to change between move, edit and comment
- Instead of undoing changes, figma should have a history option or something like version control to roll back changes to a file
- improve prototype experience on the figma phone app
We are using Figma to create designs for and wireframe our website
- An easy way to create mockups and wireframes
- Allowing collaboration between multiple people which helps with incorporating feedback
- The nesting of pages and frames - helps keep things organised
- There is a bit of a learning curve, it's not intuitive at first even though it's easy after
- I wish it was easier to create text styles, something like being able to just right click and select "Create text style" would be great
- Sometimes there are issues with the fonts. I'm not able to edit the doc someone else created and I keep getting a notification that it's because of the font
May 24, 2024
Great design tool
We use Figma to create high-fidelity mockups of our user interface, create the design system, share handoffs with developers and run prototypes to speed up the development process. Figma is easy to use and the dev mode allows quick inspection of components on the development side. Design is faster and easier with this tool.
- Design selection
- Design prototypes
- Dark mode
- performance wise, it often happens to slow down with memory problems
- prototypes are sometimes slow to load
- in prototypes, the top bar disturbs the prototype interaction
May 24, 2024
Figma makes designing a joy!
Our organization uses Figma for most of the design work. We use Figma for the majority of the design process. This can be from taking notes during discovery all the way to creating prototypes in Figma. Also developers are using Figma in dev mode in order to be able to easily view designs specs.
- Lo-Fi Wireframing
- Hi-Fidelity Mock Ups
- Presentations
- Note Taking
- Design to No Code Website would be something that I would like to see done
- Parent-Child layer organization
- Image export to web image file
May 23, 2024
Figma useful for design at tech company
We use it for product mockups and social media templates. It is easy to replicate our app/web UI but customize specific details. We can also create app animations by extracting certain buttons or scrolling content as its own transparent PNG and creating movement through AfterEffects. We like it most for social templates because auto layouts and type styles allow us to create consistent elements that auto resize when we change text or imagery.
- Auto layout
- Replacing images
- Exporting
- Creating artboards
- Grouping layers
- Export prototype animations as transparent videos or gifs
- Export as PDF
We use Figma to collaborate on creative projects of all kinds. It's an all-in-one platform that lets our broader creative team work together with ease. Plus, Figma's comprehensive suite of design tools reduces the need for multiple software licenses, making it a cost-effective solution for businesses. We love how we can access Figma from any device— a laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. This helps us get quick reviews in real-time.
- Cloud-based access means we can use it (and get approvals) quickly, from anywhere.
- It's real-time collaboration features are pretty much unrivaled.
- We love being able to make edits in real-time and track changes so even if something is edited accidentally, we can revert back to a certain point in the project and restore it.
- You can only use Figma when you're connected to the internet, so unfortunately there is no offline editing or access.
- The version control, while it exists, could definitely be upgraded and more sophisticated.
- It's not ideally suited for extra large projects like a comprehensive re-brand effort, for example.
May 23, 2024
The top UI Design Tool
Developing UI prototypes for testing and usability studies, analysis of varying user workflows, and alignment between different teams/stakeholders regarding the final product design. Primarily used for designing mobile apps and interfaces for health care providers and allows for screens to be shared with regulatory bodies when making changes and providing change rationales.
- Allows for a UI design source of truth
- Allows for exporting of actual UI to prototyping tools
- Allows for fairly easy modelling of user interface workflows
- Design control is challenging
- Creating object instances
May 23, 2024
Figma - A MUST for UX Designers & Writers
We use Figma for all UI revamps, as well as FigJam to collaborate on work in our team meetings. The UX and UI team and the Content team work together in Figma on a daily basis. Figma is so easy to use and having visual mockups of content we want to publish makes such a difference, especially when we send it to other stakeholders in the business to review. People like to see the work we are doing in situ before it goes live, and Figma does just that. It allows allows me as a UX Writer to put the copy directly into the design in real time and make sure that the design and content flow seamlessly in each wireframe. I love using Figma to work with designers and couldn't imagine working without it.
- Collaboration in real time
- Presenter mode to show content in situ
- Ability to have global components that update automatically across all screens
- Sometimes aligning content and editing it (when it's in a purple square) can be tedious
- Hard to track changes which can make version control difficult
May 23, 2024
Figma is all in one design solution
We started using it for ad graphics design and now we use it for UI and UX design, as well as website and user flow prototypes. We needed a tool that was wasy to access for everyone involved and that was cloud based so it didnt lag.
The support department has started to use it as well for building flow charts because of the ease of use.
The support department has started to use it as well for building flow charts because of the ease of use.
- Prototyping
- Website design
- Storing graphics
- Allowing teammates to work together
- Downloading animations created
- Compressing images in figma
- Pdfs dont show up correctly when opened
We use figma to design interfaces for specific backoffice screens of our ecommerce tools. It helps to design them on a quickier and more colaborative way than using usual desktop/local tools. It also make it easier to share those designs with our clients and have them interact with them.
- Interaction from clients
- Colaborative design
- Reuse of components
- Sometimes its overly complicated
- Simple interface makes it harder to find advanced features
May 23, 2024
Solid platform for great results
Mainly for creating prototypes for usability testing. Sharing static content with stakeholders is fraught with risks where they misinterpret or assume behaviour. Being able to rapidly create interactive prototypes and share them enables us to have a test platform, a vehicle to get feedback from stakeholders, and a way to communicate intent with developers.
- Hifi concepts
- Prototypes
- Sharing of concepts
- Version control
- Export of resources
- Comment threads
- Sometimes setting up sharing permissions can be a pain
- Variable and conditional logic is weird and debugging is a nightmare
- Vector drawing is a bit quirky
- Components don’t always behave how you expect
I lead our product discipline, so I'm very much focused on the early stages of converting a strategy both to a concept and a prototype. I used it for bringing to life ideas very quickly, but right through to sending design and use behaviours to our tech team to build from. Our biggest challenge is getting a prototype up and running without a full build as we're primarily a B2B.
- Provides a quick look-and-feel to a concept or idea
- Gives our tech team a detailed spec of how something should look
- Once learnt, allows for a very quick build
- The data hook in to prototype something is lacking, it has some field management but not much
- The conversion from Figma to another low-no code solution like Bubble is very iffy and hasn't really paid off
- The style management is not very intuitive
We use Figma for our UI/UX team to create front end designs for various applications that we build and support and hand those over to our dev team for implementations. Our design team will also create clickable prototypes that can be presented to the business to showcase what we are working on and get feedback.
- Easy hand off between design team and dev
- They are always improving the platform
- It is easy to use when actually creating designs
- It's collaboration tools are very clunky
- Navigating within the platform and managing projects is cumbersome
- Difficult for our business users to just open files and start viewing them and asking questions
- Can't use my mouse to scroll to zoom in
May 22, 2024
Figma, the must tool for product management!
Figma has proven to be an invaluable tool for me and our product management team, especially for ideation, prototyping, and task management. FigJam allows for seamless collaboration across teams, making the brainstorming process highly efficient. The prototyping capabilities are robust, enabling quick iterations and real-time feedback internally and from our customers. Additionally, Figma is the tool I use to create artifacts in our task management software to act as our source of truth, which is essential for SOC2 compliance, ensuring all project details are well-documented, enhancing overall project management and communication.
- Working with customers to understand user flows and interaction
- Brainstorm use cases and user flows as they pertain to user persona
- Create and access design components for quick prototyping and iteration
- My design system has gotten messy, better ways to clean it up
- More interactive way to work with cohorts with the goal of improving design across app
- Documentation for better use cases on how to build types of components
May 22, 2024
Without real competitors
We use Figma at our Company as a design collaborative tool in all stages of our design processes, in creating researches, to ideate and brainstorm about new features and prototyping (low-high fidelity prototypes) or maintaining complex design systems. There is also a possibility to creating diagrams using Figma jam files, to showcasing and improving Information Architecture, or to quickly draft User flows.
- To organize data
- To building a design system
- Creating different prototypes
- Creating Interactions and motion designs
- Adding an option to work in “private-mode” making it possible to “hide” your work in early steps of ideations. Sometimes it feels wrong when colleagues are starting commenting on design decisions in very early stages, unnecessarily.
- Adding notifications if the Figma file starts to be larger and heavier to load about suggestions to keeping the file structure more tidy.
- Constantly trying to prioritize all the functionalities and keeping the app intuitive to use.
May 22, 2024
Why Figma is Great
I use Figma daily to create design mockups and prototypes. Figma allows my team to collaborate, share ideas through Figjam and enhance our design work. It’s convenient to use and I love that Figma is so easy to learn to use. It’s also well organized so that i can easily find files and organize my designs.
- Organization
- Aesthetic
- Prototyping
- Plugins
- Devmode
- Filing
May 22, 2024
Highly collaborative and efficient
We use Figma for our design work, along with Photoshop, as well as for Figjam boards for internal processes and workflows, and for client review boards since it is such a friendly platform.
It helps us keep our internal and external designs all in one place, accessible by all, which is huge.
It helps us keep our internal and external designs all in one place, accessible by all, which is huge.
- Highly collaborative in all aspects
- Allows multiple types of share settings, which is super helpful with client-related items
- Components and Google Sheets integration makes variation designs efficient
- Having folders within projects would be helpful
- Ability to merge cells in Figjam board tables
We use Figma for everything from prototyping UX workflows to creating high fidelity design systems. In addition to our design team, we have our software developers, marketing and third party contract designers all working within our organizations design system. This ensures our entire team can collaborate in one platform together.
- Multi team collaboration with different user roles
- vector editing/design
- prototyping
- responsive design
- simpler ways to edit design systems and update across designs
May 22, 2024
Figma Review
I have used Figma for creating a mockup for my design team. It’s a quick way to draw up what I’m looking for without it being full design quality. For example, I’ve used it to mock up signage for a client event and then my graphics team runs with it and creates the print file.
- Mockups
- Prototyping
- Mobile design
- Ease of using autofit
- Better integrations for collaboration by other teams (e.g. content writers)
- More intuitive organization of layers within a design
May 22, 2024
Great Design Product
We sometimes use Figma to design what a potential solution would look like. This allows our developers to understand the expectations set by business for looks, functionality, and understanding how their development should align with the vision of business. This outline also allows the business to dissect what different features and functionalities are offered during each stage of the development process.
- Outlining an app's development
- Designing the interface being used in each stage of a product
- Use predefined components to understand what the end product looks like.
- I think there should be some options for freeform design
- I think there should be some integrations with cloud storage solutions
- I think there should be some increased extension compatibility with browsers
May 22, 2024
Great for UX users but not Product
We are building a new advertising experience and technologies which aim for both consumers and business users of ads platforms, hence, the problems range from what the user experience is with advertising - from formats to density to placements - and advertiser experience of creating/ targeting/ scheduling/ analyzing campaigns.
We use Figma to mock external experiences and UIs for internal users and advertisers
We use Figma to mock external experiences and UIs for internal users and advertisers
- prototyping for UX research
- ability to have multiple options within the same file, keep organize, archive
- Figma for Produc managers - often when I had to mock something as a product manager, I wish there are easy to find templates and starting points
- tooltips
May 19, 2024
Collaborative Design Unleashed
In our organization, we leverage Figma extensively for journey mapping, a critical process in understanding and enhancing user experiences. Figma serves as a versatile platform for collaborative design, enabling our team to create detailed visual representations of user journeys across various touchpoints. Through Figma's intuitive interface and real-time collaboration features, we streamline the process of mapping out customer interactions, identifying pain points, and envisioning improved user experiences. This tool allows us to address business problems related to user engagement, conversion rates, and overall satisfaction by providing a clear and comprehensive visualization of the user journey. The scope of our use case with Figma extends to cross-departmental collaboration, where stakeholders from design, product management, and marketing work seamlessly to iterate, refine, and implement user-centric solutions efficiently.
- Real-time Collaboration
- Prototyping and Interactive Design
- Offline Mode
- Performance with Large Files
April 17, 2024
Figma is Awesome
We use it for everything. From designing high fidelity screens, prototypes or mocks ups and even presentations. It is such an amazing tool, giving you a great deal of control and helps you think clearly and bring to life what's in your mind. It is fantastic.
- Build out presentations
- Design screens
- Design mockups of concepts
- File sizes when you export frames as a PDF or JPG. They are often way too large.
We use both the design and dev modes in Figma. We've had it as our primary design collaboration tool for almost 2 years and recently adopted the dev mode functionality to assist with handover. We use it for ideation, prototyping, design system creation and management mostly, but have also used it to help with creation of assets like PDFs for brochures as well.
- Co-design
- Collaboration
- Compatibility
- Design hygeine
- Large projects don't work well in the browser version
- Some issues with billing to large/complex companies
- Better management/curation of Figma community contributions