Altimetrik IPE vs. Figma

It's well suited for design and development professionals who are in the field of UX. It can be picked up by anyone, however, there's a steep learning curve. Developers do not see Figma (yet) as one of the tools core to their workflows. The moment that it will shift will be momentous, as it will bridge the gap between devs and designers even more.

Incentivized

• As a visual designer, I spend 90% of my working time in Figma. So, as a design tool, Figma is mature and feature-rich. It covers all the basic needs and provides extras, such as simple prototyping and the ability to use external plugins.
• Collaboration: It’s very easy to work together on the same file in Figma. You can easily brainstorm together or use Figma as a shared screen.
• Smartness of components: Figma provides many adaptability options for components that allow building very flexible and scalable layouts.

Incentivized

• UI editor interface is starting to get complicated compared to early iterations
• Component system has a steep learning curve and is easy to make mistakes
• Figjam post it notes and other text and shape features often feel limiting since they can't be smoothly resized as compared to the UI editor

Incentivized

It's by far the best tool and I feel delighted using it every day.

It's so simple to use! I have no background in UI design but basic designing and I was able to learn this software Figma within 3-5 days. There are tons of tutorials available on Youtube from so many popular YouTubers in the space, you can just go through them and start designing.

I haven't used their support lately but in the past, they had a chat that I used often. They often responded in a few hours and were able to give a satisfactory solution. I would imagine it's less personal now but the community has expanded drastically so there are more resources out there to self serve with a bit of Google magic.

Incentivized

At the time of evaluating between using Figma and Axure, circa 2019, Figma felt much more lightweight and fluid as compared to Axure. This quality allowed for quicker iteration. Another reason I chose Figma was the community. Figma was widely adopted by professionals in my role which to me meant that the application had a brighter future and was best catered to my uses.

Incentivized

• Negative -- the Figma mirror app is quite poorly connected with Figma itself, hence when we were conducting user testing, we got some incorrect data.
• Positive -- time spent for discussion because we have something visual to base on discussion on
• Negative -- it's difficult to find files and comments, which is a lost of time

Incentivized