Figma - A MUST for UX Designers & Writers
We use Figma for all UI revamps, as well as FigJam to collaborate on work in our team meetings. The UX and UI team and the Content team …
Starting at $15 per month per editor
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What is Figma?
Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
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$144
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$540
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Free
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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- $15 per month per editor
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What is Figma?
Figma is a design platform that aims to bring together powerful design features you already love and a more efficient workflow. Some features include:
Its plugins help to remove manual, repetitive work, bring in data, and power custom workflows.
- A modern pen tool: Draw in any direction with Vector Networks. No more merging or needing to connect to the path's original point.
- Instant arc designs: Design clocks, watch screens, or pie charts with the Arc tool.
- Be expressive with OpenType: Tap into advanced font features to fully express the brand.
Figma's Autom Layout tool helps users spend more time iterating and less time moving things around.
- Less manual resizing: Buttons can resize with their text and lists can rearrange themselves when items are moved around.
- Stretch to fill: Auto Layout components can now stretch left and right (or top and bottom) for easier responsive design.
- Design speaks development: Auto Layout’s padding, direction, and spacing settings translate directly into code, simplifying developer handoffs.
Its plugins help to remove manual, repetitive work, bring in data, and power custom workflows.
- Plugins for everything: Stock imagery, flow diagrams, color accessibility, charts, and icons.
- Designed for ease: A user that can build a website can build a plugin.
- Private plugins: Organization customers can create and distribute private plugins within their company.
Create prototypes that are like the real experience
Figma helps turn static design files into an interactive experience—no coding required.
- Intuitive build: Simply connect UI elements and choose your interactions and animations.
- Interactions: Define subtle interactions, like on click, while hovering, while pressing a button.
- Mobile-viewing: Experience designs in real life using our Figma mobile app, available for iOS and Android.
- Advanced transitions with Smart Animate: Automagically animate similar objects and create detailed transitions.
- Dynamic overlays: Create multiple layers of interactive content overlays.
- Animated GIFs: Use GIFs to represent motion designs, video elements, and subtle animations.
- All-in-one platform: Toggle between a design file and live prototype. Design edits appear instantly in a prototype.
- Shareable prototype: Share a link to your prototype. View it anywhere with Internet.
- Embedded commenting: Comment in a prototype. They carry over into the design file—so nothing gets lost.
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Figma Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
Figma starts at $15.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of Figma are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 23, 2024
Figma - A MUST for UX Designers & Writers
We use Figma for all UI revamps, as well as FigJam to collaborate on work in our team meetings. The UX and UI team and the Content team work together in Figma on a daily basis. Figma is so easy to use and having visual mockups of content we want to publish makes such a difference, especially when we send it to other stakeholders in the business to review. People like to see the work we are doing in situ before it goes live, and Figma does just that. It allows allows me as a UX Writer to put the copy directly into the design in real time and make sure that the design and content flow seamlessly in each wireframe. I love using Figma to work with designers and couldn't imagine working without it.
- Collaboration in real time
- Presenter mode to show content in situ
- Ability to have global components that update automatically across all screens
- Sometimes aligning content and editing it (when it's in a purple square) can be tedious
- Hard to track changes which can make version control difficult
May 23, 2024
Figma is all in one design solution
We started using it for ad graphics design and now we use it for UI and UX design, as well as website and user flow prototypes. We needed a tool that was wasy to access for everyone involved and that was cloud based so it didnt lag.
The support department has started to use it as well for building flow charts because of the ease of use.
The support department has started to use it as well for building flow charts because of the ease of use.
- Prototyping
- Website design
- Storing graphics
- Allowing teammates to work together
- Downloading animations created
- Compressing images in figma
- Pdfs dont show up correctly when opened
We use figma to design interfaces for specific backoffice screens of our ecommerce tools. It helps to design them on a quickier and more colaborative way than using usual desktop/local tools. It also make it easier to share those designs with our clients and have them interact with them.
- Interaction from clients
- Colaborative design
- Reuse of components
- Sometimes its overly complicated
- Simple interface makes it harder to find advanced features
We use Figma for our UI/UX team to create front end designs for various applications that we build and support and hand those over to our dev team for implementations. Our design team will also create clickable prototypes that can be presented to the business to showcase what we are working on and get feedback.
- Easy hand off between design team and dev
- They are always improving the platform
- It is easy to use when actually creating designs
- It's collaboration tools are very clunky
- Navigating within the platform and managing projects is cumbersome
- Difficult for our business users to just open files and start viewing them and asking questions
- Can't use my mouse to scroll to zoom in
May 22, 2024
Figma, the must tool for product management!
Figma has proven to be an invaluable tool for me and our product management team, especially for ideation, prototyping, and task management. FigJam allows for seamless collaboration across teams, making the brainstorming process highly efficient. The prototyping capabilities are robust, enabling quick iterations and real-time feedback internally and from our customers. Additionally, Figma is the tool I use to create artifacts in our task management software to act as our source of truth, which is essential for SOC2 compliance, ensuring all project details are well-documented, enhancing overall project management and communication.
- Working with customers to understand user flows and interaction
- Brainstorm use cases and user flows as they pertain to user persona
- Create and access design components for quick prototyping and iteration
- My design system has gotten messy, better ways to clean it up
- More interactive way to work with cohorts with the goal of improving design across app
- Documentation for better use cases on how to build types of components
May 22, 2024
Without real competitors
We use Figma at our Company as a design collaborative tool in all stages of our design processes, in creating researches, to ideate and brainstorm about new features and prototyping (low-high fidelity prototypes) or maintaining complex design systems. There is also a possibility to creating diagrams using Figma jam files, to showcasing and improving Information Architecture, or to quickly draft User flows.
- To organize data
- To building a design system
- Creating different prototypes
- Creating Interactions and motion designs
- Adding an option to work in “private-mode” making it possible to “hide” your work in early steps of ideations. Sometimes it feels wrong when colleagues are starting commenting on design decisions in very early stages, unnecessarily.
- Adding notifications if the Figma file starts to be larger and heavier to load about suggestions to keeping the file structure more tidy.
- Constantly trying to prioritize all the functionalities and keeping the app intuitive to use.
May 22, 2024
Figma Review
I have used Figma for creating a mockup for my design team. It’s a quick way to draw up what I’m looking for without it being full design quality. For example, I’ve used it to mock up signage for a client event and then my graphics team runs with it and creates the print file.
- Mockups
- Prototyping
- Mobile design
- Ease of using autofit
- Better integrations for collaboration by other teams (e.g. content writers)
- More intuitive organization of layers within a design
May 19, 2024
Collaborative Design Unleashed
In our organization, we leverage Figma extensively for journey mapping, a critical process in understanding and enhancing user experiences. Figma serves as a versatile platform for collaborative design, enabling our team to create detailed visual representations of user journeys across various touchpoints. Through Figma's intuitive interface and real-time collaboration features, we streamline the process of mapping out customer interactions, identifying pain points, and envisioning improved user experiences. This tool allows us to address business problems related to user engagement, conversion rates, and overall satisfaction by providing a clear and comprehensive visualization of the user journey. The scope of our use case with Figma extends to cross-departmental collaboration, where stakeholders from design, product management, and marketing work seamlessly to iterate, refine, and implement user-centric solutions efficiently.
- Real-time Collaboration
- Prototyping and Interactive Design
- Offline Mode
- Performance with Large Files
We use both the design and dev modes in Figma. We've had it as our primary design collaboration tool for almost 2 years and recently adopted the dev mode functionality to assist with handover. We use it for ideation, prototyping, design system creation and management mostly, but have also used it to help with creation of assets like PDFs for brochures as well.
- Co-design
- Collaboration
- Compatibility
- Design hygeine
- Large projects don't work well in the browser version
- Some issues with billing to large/complex companies
- Better management/curation of Figma community contributions
April 03, 2024
Best UX Tool
We use Figma for UI/UX designing and prototyping. Our business uses Figma as part of the product development cycle for new software. Our UX designers use the tool to create initial wireframes, finalized UX designs and prototypes. The designs are then used by our development teams to develop the frontend UI for our product. Verifiers also use the designs verification of the frontend development.
- UX designs
- Prototyping
- Collaboration
- The ability to create components so updates can be made once instead of multiple times
- Requires time to learn how to use it
- Can be difficult to correctly layer objects
April 01, 2024
Amazing tool for design and prototyping
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
I use Figma mainly for converting the product requirement document to actual designs and prototypes that will be reviewed by the product management team and handed over to the development team after going through the necessary iterations and final approval of the product team. I also use the prototypes with users to test the product before actually jumping into the development.
- Creation of Interactable Prototypes
- Component Management
- Commenting feature
- Exporting Screens
- Language localization
- The software lags with large project files
- Organization of documents
March 30, 2024
Best UI/UX Design tool in the market
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It helps us to efficiently create amazing UI/UX. we use Figma on a daily basis to design our projects. it offers many amazing features like live collaboration which help our team work effectively. It helps us to boost our productivity and reduce the design time. We can ship our products faster and test the prototype in Figma directly.
- UI/UX Desiging
- Social Media Posts Design
- Design Prototyping
- On thier Free Tier
- Add support for videos in free tier
March 29, 2024
Great Tool for User Insights
We leverage Figma for across the new product development process—to conduct early state concept testing and resonance testing and mid stage user testing on product prototypes. It's proven invaluable for deep design work such as this.
- Prototyping
- Defining user flows
- Building marketing collateral
- Gaining concensus on high level future state visions for an experience
- Licensing has a high price point, so not everyone on our team has access to all functionality
- Client or cross-team collaboration is limited and challenging if everyone does not have a license. The comment-only functionality for non-licensed users is severely limiting and a high point of frustration.
- The Miro plug-in is useless. I was disappointed to find that it essentially just imports a static, un-editable image. It also does NOT update the image import automatically when a change is made to the original Figma file - extremely frustrating. I still can't understand what the purpose of this plugin is or the value it delivers.
- Not user-friendly or intuitive for folks who need to use Figma, but whose role isn't primarily design-related. Requires significant time investment to really understand, navigate, and utilize the UI.
March 14, 2024
Figma review
I use Figma together with my Product designer to create full fledge designs, high fidelity mocks, as well as any collaborative workshops with stakeholders and users. We're solving a problem of collaboration where Figma provides the tools needed to work together and brainstorm with multiple users, as well as quickly create mocks for our engineering teams and marketing decks.
- Collaboration tools
- For a beginner (like myself) this tool was simply enough to get started on "easy" UI changes like copy, which helps my designer a ton
- Presentation feature where we can add functionality to the designs could be a bit more simply to use since this is typically led by product or marketing at my organization
March 08, 2024
Great Tool for Design and Collaboration
I use Figma for two main cases. The first one is to create service blueprints; So these are diagrams that explain a service, process or digital experience and shows all the different layers. The other thing I use Figma for is to create prototypes. I design the screens in Figma and then take those prototypes into research platforms.
- Organizing screens
- Exporting screens
- Sharing documents with stakeholders
- Notes; hard to edit, organize
- Formatting things in FigJam can be difficult
- Overall organization of documents
January 24, 2024
Still ahead of the curve
Our company uses Figma mostly to hand over interface design to developers, so that they can turn them into code. Sometimes, we also use it to document research. It's a single source of truth for us when it comes to design. We have multiple teams and departments that are reflected in teams and spaces.
- Eases collaboration between designers and engineers
- Interface design becomes a breeze via specialized options
- New automation options are always coming and make life of a designer easier: variable, auto-layout, etc
- Organizing teams and files within them
- Improve pricing model, especially of FigJam for enterprise plans, different licensing is needed nowadays and it's silly
- Comments - please do make sure when get moved always, the clustering in groups when you zoom out is such a pain when you have to move them
January 22, 2024
Collaborative product design & quick turnaround times!
Figma is used throughout all of our product teams and is the best collaborative design tool we've ever used! We could integrate our design system, so now it's super easy for our product designers to set up different projects and drafts all in one coherent look. We use Figma mainly for product design of our digital projects.
- Collaboration
- Ease of use
- Prototyping
- Super fast delivery times
- Export option
- Licensing
- Versioning can get tricky
January 17, 2024
Figma - impressive tool for app and web design!
We use Figma for wireframing the apps and websites we build, creating app maps, high fidelity prototyping, customer journey mapping, and managing our design system components.
- High fidelity UI design
- Component management
- Variations
- Design to dev handover
- Linking between files
- Advanced prototyping - e.g. carrying states and data across multiple screens
- Annotating things on designs like data points to capture, accessibility coding requirement - we use comments to note these, but would love different colours to distinguish comments for "Insights" (data) versus our own internal design team comments, or comments to the devs
January 13, 2024
Fantastic tool for prototyping in an efficient way
Figma is great at enabling us to test and learn different designs and prototypes. Without we wouldn't be able to put prototypes in front of clients in order to gather feedback. It is also allows us to make prototypes come to life by animating transitions, which usually go really well with stakeholders.
- wireframing
- design system integration
- prototyping
- navigation
- ease of generating animations for prototypes
January 08, 2024
Figjam is a hidden gem!
We use Figma's figjam feature almost every day. There are other software out there with similar functions but figjam is by far the best and most reliable. We use it during meetings for supporting visuals, have shared files with team members for inspiration gathering and project updates and use it for team brainstorming.
- Downloadable files
- Online and offline accessibility
- Levels of sharing, view only vs editor
- Commenting function
- Colour wheel option for sticky notes
- Audio chat functions in figjam file
- Improved commenting functions
January 05, 2024
Collaborative Design
At our organization, Figma plays a pivotal role in our UX design phase, specifically in crafting the initial frontend screens from scratch for our projects, starting from ground zero up to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The tool serves as our primary platform for collaborative design ideation and iteration, addressing key business problems related to efficient and effective UX development, and when the developer needs to see how the screen show look like, they use the UX Figma design. It allows us to create, iterate, and refine frontend screen designs in real-time, fostering a cohesive workflow that ensures our designs align with our project objectives and user needs.
- Real-Time Collaboration
- Prototyping and Interactive Design
- Component Libraries and Design Systems
- Performance with Large Projects
- Language Localization, there's only two languages avaiable
January 02, 2024
Top Class Collaborative Design Tool in the Market
I've using Figma right before our product launch. Once I get the wireframes done, I sit along with the designer to complete mockups. Figma has been a game changer for us as we can "collaboratively" design the screens together with other designers. The changes reflect instantly & we can add comments to others' work right on the board itself.
- Dev mode is an excellent feature that enables developers to build perfect pixel screens.
- Real-time collaboration with an instant feedback provision option really helps us to quickly fix the changes.
- Figma lets you easily convert product designs into react components & the best part is you don't need to worry about the CSS part.
- The software really lags if the project file is big. It sometimes crashes when you import too many assets.
- Version Control feature often finds difficult to locate, we have to deeply explore the tool to check who has made what changes.
- Not too many Font options & we've to import the font styles from outside & to do this I really spent 30 minutes of time. A tutorial would have been helpful.
January 02, 2024
Comprehensive Software for Both Design and Whiteboarding
I use the figjam whiteboard for brainstorming ideas, creating concepts, mapping out software features and roadmaps, planning content ideas. For designing UI screens, I use the regular Figma app to create quick mockups as well as high definition UI screens in both desktop and mobile sizes. Since both of these features are in a single app, it is easy for me to switch between planning a software feature, and designing the screens for that feature.
- Sharing designs with others
- Generous free tier
- Good drag and drop support for a variety of file types in both the UI editor and Figjam
- 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
December 20, 2023
The best no 1 design tool for create a user interface design
We primarily rely on Figma as our primary tool for translating business requirements into visual designs. Figma is offering real-time collaboration, robust version control, cross-platform compatibility, streamlined feedback and iteration processes, and efficient design-development handoff. And also Figma is able to encompass web, desktop mobile applications, and lite graphic design. It extends to prototyping, design system management, and remote collaboration, making it an ideal tool for creating, refining, and iterating digital products in a collaborative and efficient manner.
- Build a Design design system with multiple brand color and themes.
- Support many plugins to speed up design team workflow
- Include community site and offer free asset
- Not support typography variables as design tokens ( in variable feature )
- Do not have integration with figjam if you would like to make design workflow and with figma design
- Variable mode is limited for pro plan, only 4 modes max.
December 15, 2023
The tool of choice for all good digital designers
We use Figma for all our digital design needs. This includes designing website landing pages, web banner ads, icon design, digital illustrations, wireframing, digital product design and documentation, app design and the creation and management of our design systems. Figma helps keep the design team organisation wide aligned on what is being worked on and helps facilitate feedback within the tool.
- Design system creation and management
- High fidelity prototyping
- Extensive plugin marketplace
- Stronger integration with task management tools
- Better file management
- Easier management of user permissions that make it easy for anyone to understand what each permission tier means