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 Well suited to organization starting their journey of design system creation. It provides a ready to go foundation that requires minimum effort to set up and get going. It may be limited if scaling into thousands of design elements and multiple users - we have not tried at scale of more that 10's of users.
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 It manages the visual aspects of a brand very well. It is easy to use and update. It converts the colors from hex to rgb and cmyk seamlessly. It has a nice user interface. 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 I believe having an agency option would be great so that one could manage and build multiple brands for multiple clients. Having sections for voice and personality would be great. The ability to export a brand document to a .PDF to share with partners. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's by far the best tool and I feel delighted using it every day.
Read full review Frontify is very easy to use and makes updating information a breeze. Frontify acts a central location to house assets and information for easy sharing. You can plug and play information and even white label the guide if desired
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 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 We've invested time building our own hosted interface, and recently begun exploring
Figma for design system management too. The benefit of Frontify is it's easy public access. The downfall is integration with other systems required in the UX, Design, Product Management, and Development processes - something
Figma supports well.
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 Solid cost benefit - the cost is not prohibitive for the value it brings Overall value depends on internal federation of usage Read full review ScreenShots