Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review MockFlow is a great tool for low-fidelity wireframing for quick validation & contextualization of UX & UI hypotheses. It is not a substitute for full-fledged designing tools such as
Figma or Adobe XD.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Ease of use. The UX is great. A decent number of pre-built UI elements such as browser frames, dropdowns, buttons, etc. Good prototyping ability. We can create decent prototypes using links. Collaborating capability for multiple members in a team. Ease of exporting the wires in different formats. Read full review Cons 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 Read full review Grouping the similar elements together to further enhance the UX. Detailing the wires is still clumsy. Monochromatic UI can be improved a bit. Icon availability is limited. More collaboration features. Grouping of elements in the wires is cumbersome. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's by far the best tool and I feel delighted using it every day.
Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review Easy UI & good UX makes the usability very convenient.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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
Read full review Figma is a high-fidelity designing tool and provides too many features which would be overkill if we are looking for basic prototyping. Also, if you are not a designer and just want to create basic wires or prototypes as a Business Analyst or Product Manager, MockFlow would suffice your needs. But if you are focusing on pixel-perfect designs then I would suggest going for
Figma . The ease of usability with MockFlow is very convenient as there would be a steep learning curve for
Figma .
Balsamiq is very similar to MockFlow but the wires created in it look a bit sketchy & clumsy.
Read full review Return on Investment 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 Read full review Low turnaround time for creating wireframes resulting in aligning the team on a single path. Validating UX & UI hypothesis quickly leading to less rework & quicker results Saving to & fro time with parallel collaboration feature. Read full review ScreenShots