Item: Figma
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Figma

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am one of many UX designers, and we use Figma in our organisation as our primary tool for designing all-new products as well as creating new features and improvements to exisiting products. As a team, we love having our core Design System within Figma, which relieves our Visual Designers from redesigning our layouts, and also ensures consistency across our many teams and projects. As a UX designer, I love to use Figma to organise notes, plot out user flows, explore new interactions and throw down quick ideas, building prototypes.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Design System makes life so much easier and brings consistancy across multiple designers
Auto Layout is amazing and reduces time alignment and spacing

Cons

I cannot think of any improvements to suggest

Return on Investment

I personally don't have business objectives, and am not involved in that area, but I know the tool has saved us so much time as User Experience and Visual Designers.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe PhotoShop and Sketch

Figma was far superior to Adobe PhotoShop, considering PS wasn't designer for web but a photo editing tool.

I moved from Photoshop to Sketch a good 8 years ago, and that tranisition was eye opening that we could have a web/app specific tool. The change from Sketch to Figma was less polarising, but I did find that Figma seemed to put a lot of thought/work into the app and offered a nice array of tools and features. So I would highly recommend Figma, over Sketch, but I also don't know how far along Sketch has come in the last 8 years.

Key Insights

Do you think Figma delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Figma's feature set?

Yes

Did Figma live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Figma go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Figma again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Slack, Adobe PhotoShop, Miro

Likelihood to Recommend

I find Figma to be tailored to web and app design, I have used it for both but I currently use it to ideate new products, features and experiences. It's so easy to throw down some ideas, turn it into a working prototype, share the prototypes or designs with colleages, recieve their input through commentings. Even having a spectator mode is well used, when someone is taking the team through their designs for feedback. It's a really solid and well-rounded tool. I have attempted to use Figma as a replacement for Adobe Illustrator, but I have not found an easy way to set the resolution to 300 dpi to adequatly export the images. Figma is not designed for print use, but, I have still found myself desirigin this functionality.

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An exceptional tool for User Experience designers and alike

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