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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 |
|---|---|
| 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
June 04, 2024
Figma is a must-have for product marketing teams
We use Figma for all product and marketing design, prototypes, etc. across our organization. We also use Figma as a brand repository. We've found it to be an incredibly powerful tool and especially love the collaboration that Figma enables across our teams. Figma makes it so much easier to work together.
- Prototypes
- Asset library
- Collaboration
- Frame naming
- File organization
- Pricing could be a bit easier to understand
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
June 03, 2024
Figma is the best tool for design
We use Figma for designing and discussing design cases. Usually, designers create a project on Figma and present that to the team. Afterwards the team reviews the proposal by commenting on Figma. It is quite convenient because nowadays we don't see each other daily. With Figma we can understand each other very well since it is possible to comment on anywhere of the file.
- Keep record of discussions/decisions - we could make use of the discussions and easily understand what others have talked about, then no need for repeated questions
- Collaborate remotely - it is very important that Figma breaks the physical barrier for communication
- I hope there will be an Mac app - I'm basically an app heavy user. I think it is always better to have an app (not a webview one)
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
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 28, 2024
Figma is still the best one around
We use Figma not only for prototyping, but also for collaborative discussions on calls, squads planning and retros, presentations and all hands meetings - for example, we have a template for newbies present theirselves in our all hands, and also we use Figjam for icebreakers / playtime every Friday.
- Prototype animations
- Version history
- Multiplayer tool
- Figma mobile app. It's a mess and doesn't have all the features that I need
- Search / organization
- Tabs - they keep coming up and it's a mess. Could be something like Chrome to group my tabs for easy access. (I know that favorites exist, but sometimes I have to hop to a file in a call and it's easier when it's already opened
May 27, 2024
Top-notch and fully functional tool
We use Figma for web, apps, prototyping design.
In my role, I use it for Workshop facilitation, internal planning, and collaborative sessions with the team. Also for clients' presentations and social media content desing
In my role, I use it for Workshop facilitation, internal planning, and collaborative sessions with the team. Also for clients' presentations and social media content desing
- Intuitive and friendly to use
- For designers, the learning curve is smooth when coming from traditional software
- Easy and effective prototype tool to show interactions
- Great and seamless integration for DEV team
- Multiple templates and diy options for FigJam boards
- Easy to share
- Dealing with heavy vector files
- same editable properties than Figma for figjam files
- guest limits with no charge
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.
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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