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Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
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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 |
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| 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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April 17, 2024
Figma is Awesome
We use it for everything. From designing high fidelity screens, prototypes or mocks ups and even presentations. It is such an amazing tool, giving you a great deal of control and helps you think clearly and bring to life what's in your mind. It is fantastic.
- Build out presentations
- Design screens
- Design mockups of concepts
- File sizes when you export frames as a PDF or JPG. They are often way too large.
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 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 25, 2024
Design Made Easy: You should know the power of Figma
We are using Figma for Layout Design and Prototyping in my organization. My experience with Figma has been fantastic. It's transformed how my team collaborates on design tasks. We can easily communicate and work together, in single file no matter where we are.
Figma is very fast to use and refresh.
Figma is very fast to use and refresh.
- Figma allows to work together on single file
- Figma has a option to make prototype and link screens.
- Figma has very use full plug in for Icons, Illustrations and dev mode also.
- Figma such as occasional performance issues
- Limitation in offline functionality
- Repeat Grid option should be in Figma
February 28, 2024
Figma is brilliant!
As a UIUX Designer, we have tried plenty of software to create our solutions according to the user needs, and we prefer using Figma because it gives you plenty of tools to create from simple wireframes to complex interactive prototypes, and even to create complete design systems and personalized components. We can have everything integrated and well organized in Figma
- Wireframes
- Mockups
- Interactive Prototypes
- Design Systems
- it could be great to have a better way to organize the files and the internal frames
- It's a bit hard for a non designer to jump into Figma due to the variety of tools and options that are shown
- It's hard for a designer to use autolayout
- It could be good if we could have a easier way to handle components
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 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 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 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 29, 2023
Figma is the go-to for screen-based design
We switched from Sketch to Figma for the more open collaboration that Figma provides as well as the smart tools like the developer preview and auto layouts, symbols, etc. Previously we were using Sketch with Zeplin for handoff of our designs to engineers, but after switching to Figma, everyone agreed it was better and cost-saving for us.
- Being able to leave comments on mock ups for more collaboration
- Auto layout tools that you set up once and don't have to think about again or manually adjust things.
- Easy prototyping tools within the application
- 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
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
December 05, 2023
Figma is one if the best tools for digital designers.
Figma is our primary design and wireframing tool for all our digital products. We use it to build low-fidelity wireframes and build sitemaps and then use it to transition to high-fidelity designs that are handed off to our development team for implementation. We also use it for client review and approval.
- Great tools for both low and high fidelity designs
- Easy to hand off to development team
- Collaboration tools make it easy to get client feedback.
- The project management tools could be better
- Managing users and workspaces can get a little confusing
December 05, 2023
Figma for application development
We are a new start-up company and many of our products are in development phase. Figma had help to provide a very good graphics display to show the stakeholder on how the developed application gui wireframe will look like. It show not just a single overview but different wireframe for each pages.
- Wireframe
- Graphical representation
- Great overview
- User auto upgrade license type after doing an editing
- SCIM need groups for admin & editor
November 30, 2023
Figma - your door to excellent design (seriously, it's awesome)
Figma is our go to design software. We solve a variety of problems using it from web design, company branding, presentation decks, sales proposals and more. It's extremely intuitive and provides a range of useful plugins to enhance it's out of the box toolset. We exchanged Adobe XD for Figma and never looked back.
- Web design
- Company decks
- Sales proposals
- Branding
- Real time collaboration
- More detailed design to code view
- Sometimes the UI could be better
- Some exports may take long time if your PC is not new
November 30, 2023
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
November 30, 2023
3 years with Figma
We use Figma on a daily basis as the main tool for VD, IxD, and product designers. I am working on concepts, refining designs, creating specifications, and generating assets in Figma. Many times, I also present my work directly from a working file using a click-through prototype.
- 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.
- Requires an internet connection. I take a train to go to work, and cellular connection on the train is limited. So, I have a hard time trying to access an open file in Figma or even quickly change the style of a label.
- Vector assets need to be double-checked after export. Many times, I see broken shapes and artifacts in SVG files after export. Sometimes it helps to go through all the points of the shape and remove unnecessary ones. However, sometimes I have to open the shape in Illustrator or Sketch and export it from there.
- Performance. Sometimes, I experience performance issues even on the Mac with the M1 Max chip. I just need to sit and wait for the tool, like 15 years ago with Photoshop.
- Sharing. Figma has the ability to share a link to any selected element, but many times I experience that the link leads just to the file, and the person has to search for the page, then for the dartboard, and then for the particular element.
November 29, 2023
Design solutions with Figma
I use Figma mainly to replace UI/UX design that I did previously in Adobe XD. Websites and app designs with prototyping to present to the client are the main focus. Other than that, I use it to place illustration work and add moodboards with illustration work to present. I'm still using Adobe Illustrator for most of the vector artwork but from time to time, I also create icons and other vectors in Figma. I did some idea boards with FigJam and this was very intuïtive to work with. My students learn to work with Figma, the different app and screens presets are super handy.
- FigJam is a good place to collect ideas
- The web version is handy
- the community has lots of great files and templates
- flexibility to work with artboards and prototypes
- importing .fig files
- autolayout in program tutorials
- speed in rendering the prototype
November 29, 2023
Great tool for Product Managers
Figma is used in the following ways
1. Creating web UI designs for different products
2. Creating mobile UI designs for different products
3. Creating presentation artwork
4. Creating prototypes for different features
5. Create small artwork for various purposes
6. Creating GIFs (with the help of additional add-on) to be used within the products
It also serves as a one-stop destination to collaborate with the design team.
1. Creating web UI designs for different products
2. Creating mobile UI designs for different products
3. Creating presentation artwork
4. Creating prototypes for different features
5. Create small artwork for various purposes
6. Creating GIFs (with the help of additional add-on) to be used within the products
It also serves as a one-stop destination to collaborate with the design team.
- Prototyping
- UI Design
- Rapid wireframes
- Better integration with other apps
- Collaboration
- Export work
November 29, 2023
mad about Figma - seriously I do my basic design work in Figma only
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
I use Figma to create an end-to-end flow of the Enterprise software on the HCM domain and mainly focus on User Experience. I also design for Design System and we have grown our design system for our organization. I am a pro in Figma and use advanced features like variables and modes, COnstraints, and Autolayout. I have made many interactive workflows using Figma. Figma is an amazing tool for Brainstorming, collaboration, and creating design flows. Review of work is also very seamless and it allows non designer to contribute comments which is very useful in my organization.
- New feature of Section is very helpful for Wizards
- Constraints is something I didnt find anywhere
- Auto layout is magical
- Variables and modes allow me to take the prototype to the next level
- I use it for print designs also, if we can have few features like 3d would be good
- Record the prototype presentation in fegma itsel would be great help to create help sections
- currently the local components has to be in the same page if Figma allows it in same file on other page that would be great.
November 29, 2023
Go-to design tool
My organisation uses Figma extensively in the design process, spanning the entire design lifecycle: brainstorming and wireframing, creating high-fidelity mockups, prototyping to visualise and test our designs, design hand-off to build our products with developers and design system maintenance to keep our files and assets consistent across different the design teams within the organisation.
- Live collaboration (incl. commenting)
- Prototyping
- Design system libraries / asset management
- Permission controls for users outside a project team
- File management – ideally being able to better organise design files into folders (rather than just sections)
- Presentation mode
November 29, 2023
Review of Figma
We leverage Figma to streamline our prototype creation process for new features. Its user-friendly interface and collaborative capabilities enhance our teamwork, facilitating seamless visualization and iteration of ideas. With real-time editing and interactive elements, we harness Figma's power to efficiently develop and bring innovative features to life.
- Prototyping
- Wireframe design
- Online collaboration
- Comments -- it's easy to lose comments
- Dev Mode
- Features for UX writers
November 29, 2023
Figma is the best tool for design
We use Figma for designing and discussing design cases. Usually, designers create a project on Figma and present that to the team. Afterwards the team reviews the proposal by commenting on Figma. It is quite convenient because nowadays we don't see each other daily. With Figma we can understand each other very well since it is possible to comment on anywhere of the file.
- Keep record of discussions/decisions - we could make use of the discussions and easily understand what others have talked about, then no need for repeated questions
- Collaborate remotely - it is very important that Figma breaks the physical barrier for communication
- I hope there will be an Mac app - I'm basically an app heavy user. I think it is always better to have an app (not a webview one)
November 29, 2023
Figma's showing us what the future of design will be like
We use it to design everything before it goes into production. Our design system, our benchmarks, our various iterations, even birthday messages. Everything goes in Figma. It lets us collaborate on designs, present them to stakeholders, create prototypes to test with users, and iterate rapidly. The collaboration aspect is key. It's a one-stop-shop for us.
- Collaboration
- Quick iterations
- Rapid prototyping
- Component properties are cool, but still feel a bit barebones
- Prototypes quickly become complex and hard to manage
- Being browser-based, it's easy to reach Figma's capacity in terms of stuff happening in a single page
- Image scaling in components is annoying
November 29, 2023
Figma, the best design tool of the hour
Figma is a goto tool we use when we start our work everyday. Few years back we used to use different design tools and had to use different software for prototyping and sharing design files which was bit difficult to manage. Now the situation is that every design is created, shared, reviewed and researched are from Figma. It really makes Design and research work easy.
- Flexibility in design, many plugins as added advantage
- Ease of Prototyping
- Seamless collaboration and sharing design files to stakeholders
- Easy to track on component usage Analytics, I love this feature
- Adding GenAI to create content based on provided prompt would be game changing
- Integration with other Collaboration tools like (Miro) could help cater larger audiance
- May be making prototyping more easy and fun (its much better now compared to other design tools)