Figma - a comprehensive tool for ideation to development ready designs
June 04, 2024

Figma - a comprehensive tool for ideation to development ready designs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Figma

Figma is our single design tool that our hybrid centralized-embedded UX team uses for a Product portfolio consisting of 30+ products. With a small ratio of UX to product and engineering, Figma allows us to build our design system to speed up the timelines between design and development while also developing consistent, cohesive user experiences that are often owned by multiple teams. We have a variety of user types using the platform from UX designers and researcher to engineers and even leadership folks. We also use their FigJam capability which is a create virtual collaboration tool especially for early design ideas where you really are just putting pen to paper.

Pros

  • Quick prototyping for user concept and usability testing
  • Hosting our design system for streamlined, consistent designing
  • Enables cross-functional collaboration and socializing of design ideas

Cons

  • walk through and tutorials within the desktop app
  • user account management and access could be more streamlined
  • migration of licenses to new licenses or merging of 2 licenses
  • Buy in for design system usage
  • Buy in for UXD resources for the product org
  • Ability to test concepts before investing more time and resources into development
Previously, we were using more than 1 tool for a specific use case related to design needs, but learned that Figma was more comprehensive, thus we were able to reduce usage of 2+ tools into one saving our overall budget on UX tools. Figma also seems to be an industry-wide favorite, so in hiring UX team members, they are likely to be versed in using Figma reducing the onboarding cost/impact of a new member.

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?

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

Figma is really the golden standard design tool and can be used from low fidelity designs for early concept testing to high fidelity, development ready designs. Figma is also great for larger UX teams with multiple designers due to collaboration on files being streamlined. I can't think of scenarios where it is less appropriate at this time.

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