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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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Great design tool

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Aniruddha GaneshView profile
Full stack developer in Engineering at Mithyalabs (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma for designing apps, mockups, wireframing, creating icons and creating design docs. It also serves as the reference for our development team to develop apps based on the design. Our devs use the dev mode to make it easier and faster to develop the apps as it provides some styles to be used in the apps. It serves to model user flows in the app and derive use cases as well.

Pros

  • The auto layout makes for great easily configurable designs that are simple to develop and adapt to various devices
  • Dev mode makes dev handoff particularly painless
  • Ease of creating mockups and making quick changes using the editor is nice as well
  • The real time collaboration features enable easy remote communication.

Cons

  • All android phones are chalked up to a 375px width size, while iPhones' resolutions get preferential treatment. With a wider range of resolutions, android could have better support in the design toolbar
  • Pricing for dev mode could be better.
  • Allow devs to install plugins that only run in dev mode.
  • The view only mode got nerfed to make dev mode look better.

Return on Investment

  • It has made my life as a developer much simpler. I almost never need to talk to the designer as to the intended purpose of a design element.
  • Figma speeds up the development process
  • With its plugins, it also enables sharing design related tokens and values with the team very easy

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe XD

Other Software Used

Miro, Atlassian Jira

Figma's great for collaboration

Adam KahnView profile
Trust in Product Management at LinkedIn (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma for our design mocks, for creating repositories of design guidelines, and for collaborating externally with other partners on all things product and design. Figma is a core part of our flow for engaging with product development and partnerships. I'm not a designer and even I end up using Figma in my day-to-day.

Pros

  • User interface is intuitive and easy to use
  • Easy to add collaborators
  • Great public-facing community

Cons

  • N/A - really helpful so far

Return on Investment

  • Far easier to collaborate externally on design, making it easy to work with new partners and build better products for our users

Usability

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Ashley NowakView profile
UX designer in Research & Development at UMR (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Figma to create mock-ups for white labeling the company software to other brands, keeping all files separate from each other. I also create prototypes of new functionality and separate files for work in progress, separating them from the files for developer hand-off. Figma has allowed us a process for all of the above.

Pros

  • Plugins with different software.
  • Linking to frames.
  • Commenting

Cons

  • Spacing and layout specs seem hard for others to find for some reason.
  • Short cuts.

Return on Investment

  • Easier to use that other software = less time spent.
  • Integrates well = less need for other software

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Sketch and Adobe InDesign

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, Adobe Analytics

Figma Use as an Associate Product Manager

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Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it mostly for prototyping and creating quick mock ups. It is useful for these purposes. My company hosts its design library on Figma which makes it quick to implement these design aspects to my mock ups. The score is usually 5-10 screens which start as screenshots and then i add design library components to them.

Pros

  • Design library hosting
  • Resizing tools
  • Component tooling

Cons

  • Image manipulation- I want to easily remove backgrounds and create PNGs
  • More intuitive "clicking" sometimes it is very tricky to select parts that are within components
  • Better instructions of how to capture components within frames. Sometimes i place images onto a frame but they are not actually sticking within the frame

Return on Investment

  • Customer feedback calls: I am able to present design ideas to customers and guage their intuition on how theyd interact with the proprosed idea. We make tweaks after getting their feedback which is great to do before deploying something that wouldnt work
  • Quick mock ups: Presenting an idea to board of directors is much clearer when i am able to quickly present an idea. Figma is great for this and had helped me interact with people higher up in the company in presentations since i have something to show them.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe PhotoShop, Miro and Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite

Other Software Used

Adobe PhotoShop, Miro, Lucidity Training

The best tool I ever used to manage UXUI designs.

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Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma for any topic related to Product development or improvements where we need to define a customer UX/UI. We use it to design new products, customer journeys, and interactions, or to improve the current product touch points we have for our customers. There are multiple touchpoints from our homepage, customer logins, and our booking funnel that need to be designed and documented, including all the flows from all the possible combinations of customer interactions. We have also used Figma in the past in our Marketing department to plan some rebranding campaigns for our different Brands, where logos, colors, and banners were updated.

Pros

  • Visualize product UX/UI.
  • Document in a visual way all product touchpoints.
  • Easy to compare different UI proposals.
  • Explain different customer journey flows in a visual way.

Cons

  • Browsing through file categories is difficult.
  • Touchpad gestures should align with your laptop preferences.

Return on Investment

  • Accelerate the time to market.
  • Reduce design efforts from UI team.
  • Reduce the time to make business decisions related to the product.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Miro, Adobe Illustrator CC and Adobe PhotoShop

Other Software Used

Miro, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop