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Figma

Overview

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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8 out of 10
March 14, 2024
Incentivized
I use Figma together with my Product designer to create full fledge designs, high fidelity mocks, as well as any collaborative workshops …
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Figma Review

9 out of 10
March 06, 2024
Incentivized
Professionally, I've used Figma to create graphics and infographics for both internal and external use within my company. I use it mostly …
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Figma is brilliant!

8 out of 10
February 28, 2024
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As a UIUX Designer, we have tried plenty of software to create our solutions according to the user needs, and we prefer using Figma …
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Figjam is a hidden gem!

10 out of 10
January 08, 2024
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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 …
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Pricing

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Professional

$144

Cloud
per year

Organization

$540

Cloud
per year

Starter

Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.figma.com/pricing/#figma…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $15 per month per editor
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Product Details

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:
  • 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.
Figma is available online as a SaaS, and it can be downloaded for WIndows, or MacOS. Figma is also available via a mobile app for iOS and Android.

Figma Video

Do you have a project that you need to prototype or wireframe? In this video, TrustRadius will compare InVision vs Figma and determine which is better for your project. We'll discuss the features of each tool, as well as user reviews to help you decide which is best for you.

Figma Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

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 9.8.

The most common users of Figma are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Be it a solo designer or a large organisation. Figma is well priced and suitable for all crowd.

Note that any editor added to any design file is billed as user

It has 3 free projects as well to explore and try initially.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In Figma we can work together seamlessly in a single file. We can easily deploy designs and share with the client. Client can put comments/Feedback on shared link. I like most about Figma it is web based. If we don't have good system then also we can work in Figma on browser.
March 14, 2024

Figma review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is a great tool for our product design team as they tend to create mocks and full fledge designs that we use for our engineers to build the product. It is very simple, in a good way, to address comments and questions through its collaboration feature. Being able to collaborate with multiple users and easily address any comments and questions is probably the most important thing for our organization.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's well-suited for designers to work collaboratively with product teams. It's much more digital product-forward than the competitive Adobe products. Figma eliminated multiple products and tools for our organization. Figma can be hard for designers to co-create within it though, so we still use Miro for the majority of our product team collaboration tasks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is great if you know exactly what you want to design. If you have the libraries already set up and every visual decision has already been decided. If you want to do like some more exploration with visuals it's a little hard to do that. It's hard to create different kinds of shapes and gradients.
March 06, 2024

Figma Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When it comes to web and app design I think Figma is a great starting point for designers and enthusiasts. While it can sometimes get complicated, most everything can be figured out with a quick tutorial, and the intricacies allow for more design features overall. It's easy to understand and I've always felt like it was the industry standard.
February 28, 2024

Figma is brilliant!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used Figma for a variety of activities like sketching, initial ideas, wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes, but it's hard to create animations and not worth it, because it can be very hard for the developer to implement or mimic them in production, so, for that specific topic, we prefer other tools to create them.

January 24, 2024

Still ahead of the curve

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For experience work, there is nothing better than Figma nowadays. Can be also used for Print for quick previews of production work but another software is best suited for this once approvals are gathered.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Very well suited for all digital product companies, that have to design & test their products. We're at a point where Figma is considered the gold standard of digital product design and rightly so. We use it on feature level, to build different versions and iterations of a solution. Those drafts can then be user-tested and directly implemented afterwards by our product team. Therefore, turnaround times are super fast!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Love it for high fidelity prototyping and adding polish to designs. There are some visual effects I haven't been able to create as well as in Sketch.
For prototyping it's pretty good, however, for some more advanced features where you need to carry user text inputs and data across different screens (e.g. for user testing), we still need to use Axure.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is great and putting together prototypes, web layout, user flows, that are easy to follow. It is also really good and include design systems and corporate branding. making it easy to create almost-final products.

where Figma could do better is in the navigation and it's interface, it is clunky and confusing to navigate around a board.
January 08, 2024

Figjam is a hidden gem!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is very well suited to collaborative projects of any kind, not just design. The real time collaboration is the smoothest of any software we have tried, no lagging or technical issues. Multiple people can work in the same file and the file can be shared in a number of different ways. It also feels very stable, no one is worried out work is going to somehow disappear if the internet cuts out momentarily.
January 05, 2024

Collaborative Design

Gabriel Jurask | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma serves as an integral tool during the UX phase and discovery process. It's extensively utilized by our UX designers to craft the initial frontend pages, allowing for the visual representation of concepts and ideas. During this phase, Figma acts as the canvas where our designers bring life to concepts, ensuring alignment with user needs and project goals. Moreover, as the design progresses into the development stage, Figma remains a central platform. Developers frequently access the project to gain insights and specific details while implementing the designs.
Prashanth Guru | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is excellent for seeing the designs on the mobile screen. Once you design on the laptop, you can connect to the mobile to see how it actually looks on the phone. With this option, we can easily make the changes based on the responsiveness it gives. They have multiple options to download the file which makes it great to share with the team to quickly scroll & evaluate the designs.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A solo developer or small team that wants to integrate development, feature planning and ui design in a single app can find a lot of value in using Figma, since the FigJam whiteboard and UI editor are in the same app. Business plans and software features can be mapped out on FigJam and then implemented in the UI editor, that way there is reduced context switching and teams can operate smoothly without having to toggle between multiple apps.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is great for mocking up digital designs - websites, mobile sites, apps, UI's etc. You still want to optimize your graphics in Photoshop for photos and Illustrator for vector illustrations and icons, but then can easily bring them into your Figma designs. A bonus are the FigJam boards for brainstorming and collaboration that also erases the need for apps like Miro or other whiteboarding tools.
D Hendrik Mulyana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I highly recommend it to anyone who just started learning UI/UX Design using Figma. Figma is not just a design tool, but also for prototyping with a simple dynamic database. Figma also supports many plugins to boost your workflow even faster. Figma is great for collaboration with your internal team ( design team ) or with other divisions. if you are a big team, you can also monitor every designer's activities ( to access this feature only for organization plans) . Do you want to make a complex design system? Figma is a good tool for simple and complex design systems. Hassle-free when hand-off process with the dev team, everything in Figma.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you daily work includes designing website landing pages, web banner ads, icon design, digital illustrations, wireframing, digital product design and documentation, app design or the creation and management of our design systems, Figma is the go-to tool for this in my opinion as it has all the features and functionality covered.

In my opinion, Figma is less appropriate for image retouching, animations or long form documents.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If your organization and team has adopted the Microsoft suite, like Azure DevOps, Outlook, Teams, M365, etc. It's good to include Figma as your design tool to be part of your development lifecycle. Otherwise, you may want to stay with Sketch or InVision.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is one of the best and most efficient tools to build digital products. The design tools, collaboration tools and having a design platform that is build for screen makes the hole process seamless and very efficient. Figma is easy to learn and can be used by different people with different skillsets.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product will work well and will be useful if you are in development phase or future graphics user interface modifications is needed for your desktop and mobile application. I do see this as a specific product and use case for desktop and mobile application development. It is not for any other usage outside of this scope.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Figma is well suited to teams when they have some working knowledge of UX and UI design. It's most suited to UI designers and some UX designers - and can be shared easily with product managers, developers and other relevant stakeholders. It's not great for beginners or people who are not very tech-savvy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I wouldn't recommend it for creating rough wireframes or prototyping as some shapes (like screens and buttons) are not easily available in FigJam. If the requirement is creating a full fledged prototype design or do all design work, nothing beats Figma.

Additionally, if you're a graphic designer creating illustrations, Figma isn't the best tool for that either.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been able to create some really interactive and smooth prototypes, which seem like the final product after development. Our prototypes turn out so well that our clients even forget this is just a clickable preview and not a developed app or website, that we are sometimes asked why some links are not working (we usually prototype only one flow when they are templates).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The main strength of Figma in web dev scenarios is its capability to quickly craft prototypes and web design. It supports atomic design and once you properly set components it can make any late changes a breeze. Even without much knowledge abut the design software everyone is able to easily introduce changes. Real-time cooperation proved to be a huge step ahead in our case as we can now work with clients on their designs. There aren't many cases where Figma lacks something, but if I were to name one it would be the PC power requirement to export files fast. If your PC is let's say 5 year old or more, you gonna wait until the files are exported.
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