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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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$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 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 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 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 10, 2024
Figma is Great for Design Teams
Our design team uses Figma to create interface designers, and interaction patterns and to create a component library that makes product development easier with our development team. We also use it to create prototypes for user testing and validation. We have also used it for process flows and co-creation as a team.
- User Interface Design
- Component Library Creation and Management
- Prototype creation
- Non-designer collaboration; the controls are very design-focused so it's not as intuitive to use as Miro or other tools
- Video conferencing; I think FigJam is ok, but it definitely needs some refinement
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
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 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 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
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
December 05, 2023
Figma is a cloud-based design and prototyping tool used for creating UI, web and mobile app designs.
I as product manager, provide business requirements for the UX designer to create mockups and wireframes, later development team will use it to develop and test features.
- Allows users to comment on designs and tag team members
- Create reusable components and leverage them
- Have a lite version of something that allows product manager to create simple designs
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
December 04, 2023
Figma is a great, all-in-one tool for collaborative teams
Our designers use Figma to create UI assets. Figma is a great tool to design components and other resources in because you can implement design system tokens to quickly standardise branding and other elements. It is also very easy for our developers to understand what is needed and improves communication between the two teams.
We also use Figjam to host workshops with stakeholders and other team members.
We also use Figjam to host workshops with stakeholders and other team members.
- Design tokens make standardisation very easy
- The granularity of the design asset features (e.g. sizes and colours) makes it easy for our developers to engineer designs
- Figjam makes it easy to host workshops online with multiple users and stakeholders
- Tokens Studio for Figma is great, it would be good if Figma took on board some of the learnings from this
- There is quite a steep learning curve for new users, so more in-product troubleshooting would be useful
- Sometimes it's not as intuitive to use as I'd like
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 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
Vetted Review
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)