Figma vs. UXPin vs. weave.ly

Figma allows us to create assets across multiple teams, such as email templates, website assets like site banners, product pictures, and Amazon/retail digital content. Outside of Figma, our design team still needs to rely on some other features to create all of our assets. This could include things like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and GIF makers. It would be nice if Figma included some of the basic features of these other platforms so that we could create everything in one platform.

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If you're a very simple designer, with very simple requirements UXPin is very good, especially because you can share the designs very easily. If you are an advanced designer with specific client requirements never use UXPin. Don't even get started because you will waste your time. Example is their component feature, it has a lot, but misses very crucial aspects to be functional on a broader scale.

• Detailed enough to create pixel perfect designs with total control over the outcome
• Creating and implementing design systems to improve consistency and speed up design work
• Robust prototyping tools to create simple animations or to connect various pages
• I love autolayout, which improves design spacing and responsiveness

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• Collaboration with teammates.
• Rapid prototyping.
• Design Systems.
• JSON File for content importing.
• Bulk editing via library components.
• Interactions, and micro UX.
• Sharing and requesting feedback.
• Version branching.
• Spec mode for developers (access to assets).
• Automatically produced visual style guide with fonts, colors, and imported assets.
• Imports from sketch while keeping the shapes, colors, and fonts fully editable.
• Boolean Pen (bezzier pen) for vector drawing, and pathfinder.
• Annotation capability via documentation mode.
• Password protect prototypes.
• Upload custom fonts (enterprise, or Pro version is key imho).
• 1,000s of built in icons (iOS, Android, Font Awesome etc).
• Prebuilt design component libraries (Material Design, Booptstrap, iOS).
• Video tutorials in-app.
• Moderate learning curve - UI is familiar, and customizable.
• Copy/paste interactions, and element properties.
• Canvas properties (grids, adaptive screen sizes, scrolling).
• Asynchronous Spell check.
• UXPin's customer support is top tier.

• Prototyping in Figma is pretty much nothing more than a glorified slide show. Sure, variables, etc are available but it takes way to long to set them up and even more time when there are revisions needed.
• It would be helpful if there were a contextual help system for various functionality. For example, advanced autolayout (like space between) can become very tricky to implement sometimes. I often wish there were an AI assistant to ask for help. I often use ChatGTP to help me through these times.
• Searching layers needs to be much easier and more intuitive.
• I would like to be able to make groups like the layers palette in Photoshop. That would help with organization and speed a lot.

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• Sometimes, it can be a bit buggy and slow if the prototype is complex with dozens of layers.
• The learning curve can be steep the first time you use it. Or, if you haven't used the app for awhile; I sometimes need to relearn it if I haven't used it for a month or so.
• The loading times can be quite slow where a page gets stuck. It would be great if this didn't happen.

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Figma is a pretty cool tool in many areas. My team almost uses it on daily basis, such as, brainstorming on product/design topics, discussing prototypes created by designers. We even use it for retrospectives, which is super convenient and naturally keeps records of what the team discusses every month. Furthermore, I do see the potential of the product - currently we mainly use it for design topics, but it seems it is also a good fit for tech diagrams, which we probably will explore further in the future.

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We'll definitely continue to use UXPin. Right now it provides us with everything we need in order to deliver quality projects to our clients. If at any point in time, UXPin doesn't provide us with what we need, we'll start vetting other software out there that may be similar. My guess is that UXPin will continue to make updates and improvements so we'll likely stick with it for quite some time.

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It's easy to use for designers who are familiar with design terms and functions from Photoshop and Illustrator. However, non-tech and non-designer collaborators have a hard time figuring out how to leave comments and apply changes, compared to other online design tools like Canva and Squarespace. Even simple drag-and-drops and rearrangement of certain blocks become too complicated due to uncommon functions like Hug and Lock.

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The only regret I have is, its not available when there is no internet

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I think its great, As there are many other software or systems which can be integrated with it as plugins or API's

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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.

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As far as I know, my teams have only had to use the UXPin support once. The experience went really well. We just needed a bit of assistance with using the Documentation feature. UXPin's support was quick and helped my team in a matter of minutes. We will definitely reach out to their support without hesitation in the future.

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In-person training has its own benefits - 1. It helps in resolving queries then and there during the training. 2. I find classroom or in-person training more interactive. 3. Classroom or in-person training could be more practical in nature where participants can have an hands on experience with tools and clarify their doubts with the trainer.

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Online training has its own merits and demerits - 1. Sometimes we may face issues with connectivity or the training content 2. The way training is being delivered becomes very important because not everyone is comfortable taking online training and learning by themselves. 3. With the advancement of technology online training has become popular but there is a segment of people who still prefer class-room training over online one.

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I would use Figma for sure for any product design you need, for any marketing or visual illustrations related to a product or business. Even if the navigation between files/folders and within the design is not the best, the capabilities and focus on designing are the best in the market, vs other tools like Miro.

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I went through several tools trying to find something that was easy to use and made me faster. Visio was such a pain at creating something reusable to make me faster, too much building. Axure and Balsamiq looked like great options but were too cumbersome for my needs and I couldn't get to the live link fast enough. Moqups was my first choice before I heard about UXPin. I switched to UXPin because the had more built in features, more icons and just an overall better and more usable interface that appealed to my design side.

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I think this is great and as I mentioned at ADP we use Figma extensively whether by designers, researchers or content writers

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• We have the Figma Org Plan subscription on the annual renewal basis, and we use Figma exclusively for all of our digital product design initiatives/projects. As we are still a very small & lean In-house UX/Product Design team, we see the value in using Figma to curate our Design System libraries which allow us to collaborate and partner with our PMs and Engineers quite well on multiple product design & development initiatives.

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• Saving money by using one tool for lo-fi wireframing, high fidelity wireframing, prototyping, and user testing, rather than four separate tools.
• The ability to create and use team libraries enables us to create visually consistent designs with less effort than creating every single design from scratch, which allows us to save considerable time (and therefore money!)
• In-platform collaboration saves our team a lot of time and energy. With everything in one place (wireframes, prototypes, user feedback, collaboration comments), we can all be on the same page about the design workflow and pinpoint discussion points that are based on up-to-date designs.

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