Draftium vs. Figma

Have been using the prototype software provided by them for almost 2 full years. Fit most needs and then suddenly the prototype was deleted without warning. They specified I should have received warning emails but never did. The prototype was visited frequently as well. When I reached out to support staff they attempted to help but they couldn't identify how it was deleted, why it was deleted, why no email was sent out, and were not able to resolve the issue. I'd stay clear of this platform for these very reasons.

A solo developer or small team that wants to integrate development, feature planning and ui design in a single app can find a lot of value in using Figma, since the FigJam whiteboard and UI editor are in the same app. Business plans and software features can be mapped out on FigJam and then implemented in the UI editor, that way there is reduced context switching and teams can operate smoothly without having to toggle between multiple apps.

Incentivized

• Easy to use, helpful.
• Clean user interface.
• Perfect UI/UX design of the product.
• Saves a lot of time.

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• 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.

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• I would like to have more customization of blocks.
• If you published your draft, SEO bots start ranking your mockup (Google search).

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• Access control - it wasn't apparent to me at first that a project was shared with everyone in the company vs just people i choose to share it with. I think the inverse should be the default.
• Sometimes it struggles to import old sketch files - no clue how to make this better, but its frustrating

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

Good price, easy to use product and perfect support.

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Much more intuitive, Adobe XD fails to keep up with the newest market changes thus it did not let us stay on top of the technology. The big plus of Figma is that the majority of our clients worked with it, whereas it was not the case with Adobe XD. You can get similar results working with both, but the process will be different in Figmas favour

Incentivized

• Saves time for me and my team.
• Gives us great mockups without a lot of effort.
• Helps designers to create what marketers want.

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

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