Essential design tool for 2024
June 04, 2024

Essential design tool for 2024

John Crumpton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Figma Professional

Overall Satisfaction with Figma

We use Figma at Doublesided to create wireframes, product and website designs for clients in health tech or digital health. It's replaced Adobe XD. For wireframing we use Frames inside Figma which is a modular Bricks Builder templates and components system. This allows us to take the wireframe into a design and use the spacing and colour system in Bricks Builder, speeding up development time.

Pros

  • Wireframing
  • Website design
  • Responsive website design
  • Product design

Cons

  • As an older designer it felt scary to see so little UI (minimal interface)
  • The learning curve was steep so we have to wait to see ROI
More people use Figma than Adobe XD at the moment. It feels like Adobe is no longer supporting XD so people are moving to Figma. Before XD there was Sketch but this isn't used as much. Figma are the market leader. If you are learning design in 2024 I recommend learning how to use Figma.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Figma again?

Yes

If you're designing a product (such as an app or interface for a wearable) or a website you need to use Figma. It's in the browser, clients can add comments, other members of the team and review things and collaborate easily. You can see your progress with different artboards. It's like Illustrator in a way but through a browser.

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