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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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June 05, 2024
A great design tool!
As a product owner, I use Figma regularly for any design component project. I work with a designer who owns the Figma files and is responsible for transforming the gathered requirements for the project to life through designs for the project's intended UI. Figma is a great design tool that allows easy collaboration between product owners/managers, designers, and developers.
- Ease of designing per requirements.
- Ease of cross-functional collaboration.
- Fairly easy to navigate and use, low skill entry barrier for non-designers.
- There is this new functionality where you can backslash to type chat bubbles so collaborators within the file at the same time can essentially chat from where they are. It, unfortunately, has a character limit, and you have to backspace to clear what is initially written.
- I have to go to dev mode to see dev notes. It would be great to be able to see dev notes from the main view somehow.
June 05, 2024
Figma Lover and Contributer
The business cases and scope of the use case is in everyday work of UIUX design. We ensure and consolidate design files, design system files, collaborative work files on ideation, as well as cross collaboration with development teams as well. The scope is widely used and ensures that everyone on our team can utilize the product.
- Design Systems
- Design Tokens
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Development Handoff
- Collaboration Tools
- Whiteboarding
- Design System Consolidation
- Developer Knowledge Base
- AI integration
June 05, 2024
The new dominant design tool
I work for an ecommerce company and I use Figma to deliver visual mockups of new feature enhancement and redesigns to development. We used to use Sketch for designing mockups from wireframes but the limitations of Sketch to just mac meant we could not use windows machines plus we needed to pair Sketch with Abstract for version control. Figma is a complete design, collaboration and versioning tool.
- Figma includes robust prototyping features, allowing designers to create interactive and animated prototypes
- Figma integrates well with various other tools and platforms, including Slack, Jira, and user testing tools
- Figma has a vibrant community and a wealth of resources, including templates, plugins, and tutorials.
- Limited offline functionality making it less reliable on the job
- The performance gets slow when working with large or complex files
- It lacks some advanced prototyping features such as more complex animations, micro-interactions like Axure RP
From prototyping to running sessions via FigmaJam, Figma has been quite a productive and efficient tool for us. I would say its a great tool for us to visualise the concept / design and helps anyone who is part of the project to share feedback, or contribute and make decision making faster.
- Prototyping
- Team collabotation
- Build design / UI
- Running workshops
- Offline sync is an issue
- limited local components
June 04, 2024
Using Figma for early product builds brings along the whole team but lacks a little bit of creativity.
We use Figma for product design, asset generation and product management. It lets us ideate, focus, refine, and produce a product that closely matches the user experience we envision early in product discovery. It works well for our designers and developers, as well as giving controller to our project management team through the product development cycle.
- Asset generation
- Team collaboration
- Multi platform support
- Interface discoverability
- Layer management
- Batch asset export
June 04, 2024
Essential design tool for 2024
We use Figma at Doublesided to create wireframes, product and website designs for clients in health tech or digital health. It's replaced Adobe XD. For wireframing we use Frames inside Figma which is a modular Bricks Builder templates and components system. This allows us to take the wireframe into a design and use the spacing and colour system in Bricks Builder, speeding up development time.
- Wireframing
- Website design
- Responsive website design
- Product design
- As an older designer it felt scary to see so little UI (minimal interface)
Figma is our single design tool that our hybrid centralized-embedded UX team uses for a Product portfolio consisting of 30+ products. With a small ratio of UX to product and engineering, Figma allows us to build our design system to speed up the timelines between design and development while also developing consistent, cohesive user experiences that are often owned by multiple teams. We have a variety of user types using the platform from UX designers and researcher to engineers and even leadership folks. We also use their FigJam capability which is a create virtual collaboration tool especially for early design ideas where you really are just putting pen to paper.
- Quick prototyping for user concept and usability testing
- Hosting our design system for streamlined, consistent designing
- Enables cross-functional collaboration and socializing of design ideas
- walk through and tutorials within the desktop app
- user account management and access could be more streamlined
- migration of licenses to new licenses or merging of 2 licenses
Imagine every time you wanted to show stakeholders an updated design the devs would have to code it. After every round of feedback you'd have to essentially dedicate entire sprints in order to build the changes in order to have something to show the clients. Depending on the feedback, it could take devs days or weeks to build. Not only is that a waste of developer time and resources by having them put real dev hours into something that is volatile and could change drastically, but the devs could be spending those hours actually building things that have been approved and need to get built. My team using Figma (and by extension, the designers who use it) helps accelerate our design and iteration process by being able to make "good enough" representations of what our site should look and feel like and incorporate feedback into those designs in a trivial amount of time. This means that the iteration and conceptualization part can take place without using too much dev time and resources.
- Presenting User Research
- Lo-fi and hi-fi wireframes
- Web Design Prototypes
- Animation
- More features for components
- Better variant capabilities
May 31, 2024
Figma Review
We use Figma to help mock up new services/applications that we are going to be building. And even for existing applications, Figma is used to help design new workflows and user experiences. Without a visual, working through the details with stakeholders can be quite challenging. Figma helps bridge the gap and solve that problem.
- Mock-ups
- Real time collaboration
- Accessibility
- Offline functionality
- Handling large files
- Advanced animation
May 31, 2024
Love Figma!
I use Figma daily. we have several use cases that we use it for. One is to design web page component prototypes to present to stakeholders. The other is to review other designer's design wireframes and protypes and provide feedback within Figma. Another use case I use it a lot for is to play around with ideas, whether it be to help me organize my thoughts, or come up with quick visuals.
- easy to use and navigate
- uses similar patterns as Adobe which helps a lot for people who are transitioning from those platforms.
- there are a lot of helpful resources to help me solve things im stuck on.
- If there was a Loom integration, or a way in which i could record both my screen and face at the same time to explain certain concepts to my collegues, that would be really nice
- The main area where you can see your team folder, personal folder, and the rest of the organizations teams could use a bit of simplification
- when it comes to sharing libraries, there is some laguange that could help make the sharing process easier to understand.
May 31, 2024
A necessary tool for a Designer
Figma is essential for me to complete my day-to-day tasks. It helps me collaborate easily with other designers, engineers and product managers to create anything quickly from basic wireframes using various plug-ins to complex high fidelity prototypes using our design systems.
- Easy to use and navigate tooling to create designs
- Ability to collaborate and co-design with others
- Regular feature updates that optimise design creation
- To become a master you have to spend a lot of time learning, some things within prototyping can take a long time to figure out
As a UX and Product Design team leader, we use Figma daily to design experiences, create clickable prototypes to share and perform user testing, run brainstorming workshops with FigJam, and manage our Design System. Figma solves so many business problems, including the ability to collaboratively create experiences across the UX and product teams and provide tokens for our developers. Like most design teams, we need to be able to test our work with users. Figma allows for rapid prototyping that we can share with the world to get real-time user feedback through our user testing tool. In addition, we have set up our design system in Figma. It has allowed for easy collaboration and communication with designers across the company and seamless execution for our developers using tokenization.
- Prototype
- Collaboration
- Code
- Lack of AI features, but I know they're coming.
In our organization, Figma is crucial for design and development, enhancing collaboration, efficiency, and consistency. Teams work simultaneously on design files, enabling real-time collaboration, design reviews, and quick iterations. We build mood boards to set visual direction and use interactive prototypes for visualization and testing. Figma's design systems, including component libraries and style guides, ensure consistency across projects. It streamlines handoffs to developers. Additionally, we use Figma for client presentations and workshops, facilitating effective feedback and collaboration.
- collaboration ( file sharing, control access, comments etc )
- create an environment where both experts and beginners can get stuff done
- Provide tools for building complex design systems
- low level drawing tools like the pen tool and primitive shapes are not as intuitive as the industry standard tools
- the file management system actually works fine, but it could be improved to make sure it's easier to understand for beginners or people with limited access
- the pricing system (seats) is not transparent and can create surprises in some cases
May 30, 2024
More than a simple design tool
We use Figma for creating prototypes, enabling real-time collaboration, and coordinating functionalities. It also facilitates presenting designs and conducting review processes. This helps address problems by streamlining the design workflow, improving team collaboration, and ensuring clear communication across remote teams and customers. Another smaller use case is to get ideas via templates and from shared Figma's from other users.
- Prototyping
- Templates
- Real-time Collaboration
- Useability
- Knowledge Base
- In larger files, zooming is sometimes difficult
- Exports to PDF
May 30, 2024
Figma, the best design tool of the hour
Figma is a goto tool we use when we start our work everyday. Few years back we used to use different design tools and had to use different software for prototyping and sharing design files which was bit difficult to manage. Now the situation is that every design is created, shared, reviewed and researched are from Figma. It really makes Design and research work easy.
- Flexibility in design, many plugins as added advantage
- Ease of Prototyping
- Seamless collaboration and sharing design files to stakeholders
- Easy to track on component usage Analytics, I love this feature
- Adding GenAI to create content based on provided prompt would be game changing
- Integration with other Collaboration tools like (Miro) could help cater larger audiance
- May be making prototyping more easy and fun (its much better now compared to other design tools)
May 27, 2024
The Gold Standard for Product Design in 2024
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
My company has a consumer app that allows people to create and trade digital collectible cards.
We have a product development team that evolves the app on an ongoing basis, including a product designer who works almost entirely in Figma to create new assets that we build into the app.
Additionally, Figma's user flows feature is useful when examining particular features such as our onboarding sequence or other multi-step user experiences.
We have a product development team that evolves the app on an ongoing basis, including a product designer who works almost entirely in Figma to create new assets that we build into the app.
Additionally, Figma's user flows feature is useful when examining particular features such as our onboarding sequence or other multi-step user experiences.
- Wireframing
- High-fidelity design
- User experience flows
- Loading speed
- Ease of onboarding for novice designers
- Pricing
May 27, 2024
Figma is my go to.
I use Figma daily. There is no going back to any other application. It's so easy to use and always has new features to make my tasks more efficient. I especially love working with the design system. It's great to be able to update my components so quickly.
- Building components.
- Auto layout.
- Collaborating with colleagues.
- Sometimes, I have to break components - if there was an easier way to customize on the spot without breaking them.
- If I change the naming convention in the library, it would be nice to replace the old version. Because it will just remove the style altogether, I have to go back and apply it again.
May 27, 2024
Best design tool available.
We use Figma as our main design and collaboration tool, and it's wonderful. We are a remote organization first, and FigmaJam plays a major role in our daily work, connecting teams asynchronously to collaborate and create our next product evolutions! It would be very difficult to think of iFood without Figma because our entire discovery process is conducted on it. Our product designers are very frequent users of Figma and love it!
- Prototyping
- User Experience Design.
- Collaboration
- Design System.
- Sharing and permissions.
- Pricing
May 25, 2024
Figma for Design and Documentation
We use Figma to design and prototype our product UI, and also to create localized screenshots in different languages for our documentation.
- Create a base UI and layer on additional components
- Hide/Display different components on the UI
- Export images of different resolution - useful to export tiny buttons at higher resolution.
- With the Loco plugin we can instantly change the language of the UI design
- A search feature for UI text would be very helpful. We have thousands of prototypes and it can be difficult to find a specific screen, so the ability to search for a text element in a design would be great.
We use Fimga right from the ideation stage. That helps in bringing teams to converge much faster from multiple ideas to what really resonates with all stakeholders. The prototyping and ability to mirror screens on devices mean the user interviews are a lot more focussed and users do not have anything left to their imagination. Extremely fine nuances like animations, wait times, and screen transitions help in getting very good feedback from the users.
- Nuanced design at high speed
- Screen mirroring on handheld devices for real time feedback
- Prototyping and animations
- Search functionality. Once you have 100 screens, it becomes very difficult to search for a particular screen.
- Ability to make changes in multiple places at once. Often times it is one change in copy, a small change in design and it has to be done in all the screens.
- Smart Shapes: Ability to create designs from scribbled designs of stylus.
We have several teams who all utilize Figma differently, so I will speak to the B2B team only. We use it daily to keep track of designs, functional requirements, component documentation, UI library and connect it with the work we're doing on Confluence, in Jira and on Storybook. We will also create interactive prototypes to review design concepts with the business and users. Our developers use Figma to gather requirements and build out pages or components depending on scope of project. We recently started to manage translations with a Lokalize plugin as well.
- Communication regarding updates and changes
- Thorough documentation in video and text formats
- Growing with the industry – acknowledging shifts in workflows and updating the product to meet ongoing needs of designers and developers
- Overrides are a pain especially as they tie to a component library. Some updates clear overrides to text fields creating extra work.
- Integration with Jira and Storybook could be better. It's key to a well rounded interconnected workflow.
- When new features are released, it's increasingly harder to update files and large libraries as the process is time consuming. One reason we haven't fully invested in working with variables.
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
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
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