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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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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 Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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May 24, 2024
Realtime collaboration redesigned
All our product designers use figma. It helps our designers build lo fi, hifis and mockups. Which ultimately goes to our engineers to build the feature/product. They use it for wireframing and coming up with multiple iterations. It also helps senior designers see and review features and collaborate with them to build a crisper iteration.
- Realtime collaboration on a particular project where people added to it can view and edit hand offs as needed
- Ability to save reusable components and having a design system with predefined styles and mockups ready to be used anywhere else
- Ability to integrate into other apps like Slack
- Better touchpad shortcuts to change between move, edit and comment
- Instead of undoing changes, figma should have a history option or something like version control to roll back changes to a file
- improve prototype experience on the figma phone app
May 24, 2024
Figma makes designing a joy!
Our organization uses Figma for most of the design work. We use Figma for the majority of the design process. This can be from taking notes during discovery all the way to creating prototypes in Figma. Also developers are using Figma in dev mode in order to be able to easily view designs specs.
- Lo-Fi Wireframing
- Hi-Fidelity Mock Ups
- Presentations
- Note Taking
- Design to No Code Website would be something that I would like to see done
- Parent-Child layer organization
- Image export to web image file
We use Figma to collaborate on creative projects of all kinds. It's an all-in-one platform that lets our broader creative team work together with ease. Plus, Figma's comprehensive suite of design tools reduces the need for multiple software licenses, making it a cost-effective solution for businesses. We love how we can access Figma from any device— a laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. This helps us get quick reviews in real-time.
- Cloud-based access means we can use it (and get approvals) quickly, from anywhere.
- It's real-time collaboration features are pretty much unrivaled.
- We love being able to make edits in real-time and track changes so even if something is edited accidentally, we can revert back to a certain point in the project and restore it.
- You can only use Figma when you're connected to the internet, so unfortunately there is no offline editing or access.
- The version control, while it exists, could definitely be upgraded and more sophisticated.
- It's not ideally suited for extra large projects like a comprehensive re-brand effort, for example.
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 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
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
Why Figma is Great
I use Figma daily to create design mockups and prototypes. Figma allows my team to collaborate, share ideas through Figjam and enhance our design work. It’s convenient to use and I love that Figma is so easy to learn to use. It’s also well organized so that i can easily find files and organize my designs.
- Organization
- Aesthetic
- Prototyping
- Plugins
- Devmode
- Filing
May 22, 2024
Highly collaborative and efficient
We use Figma for our design work, along with Photoshop, as well as for Figjam boards for internal processes and workflows, and for client review boards since it is such a friendly platform.
It helps us keep our internal and external designs all in one place, accessible by all, which is huge.
It helps us keep our internal and external designs all in one place, accessible by all, which is huge.
- Highly collaborative in all aspects
- Allows multiple types of share settings, which is super helpful with client-related items
- Components and Google Sheets integration makes variation designs efficient
- Having folders within projects would be helpful
- Ability to merge cells in Figjam board tables
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 22, 2024
Great for UX users but not Product
We are building a new advertising experience and technologies which aim for both consumers and business users of ads platforms, hence, the problems range from what the user experience is with advertising - from formats to density to placements - and advertiser experience of creating/ targeting/ scheduling/ analyzing campaigns.
We use Figma to mock external experiences and UIs for internal users and advertisers
We use Figma to mock external experiences and UIs for internal users and advertisers
- prototyping for UX research
- ability to have multiple options within the same file, keep organize, archive
- Figma for Produc managers - often when I had to mock something as a product manager, I wish there are easy to find templates and starting points
- tooltips
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
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