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Figma - impressive tool for app and web design!
January 17, 2024

Figma - impressive tool for app and web design!

Courtney Jameson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Figma Professional

Overall Satisfaction with Figma

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
  • Saves time to be able to do all our design and content in the one place
  • Being able to carry data across screens, and having real text inputs for prototyping will further allow us to save by reducing reliance on other applications like Axure
  • FigJam is a good, cost effective alternative to Miro
The benefits of Figma are that you can log in easily and use it anywhere. It has great features and component management.
Sketch has more advanced visual effects, and can be used offline. I've run into trouble where I have no internet, so am unable to connect to use Figma.
Axure has more advanced prototyping features where you can carry data inputs across multiple screens - it'd be great if Figma adds this capability too.

Do you think Figma delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Figma's feature set?

Yes

Did Figma live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Figma go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Figma again?

Yes

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.