Figma: A near perfect tool for collaboration
November 27, 2024

Figma: A near perfect tool for collaboration

Sangmesh Deshmukh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Figma Professional

Overall Satisfaction with Figma

I have used Figma for past 4 years with 3 organisations, we used it for collaboration design work to create High fidelity UI UX designs for the product. I previously used to use Adobe XD but collaboration tool wise Figma is far better. The scope of our use case includes Wireframing & Prototyping, Maintaining Design System, Collecting reviews from Stake holders and Design Handoffs to developers. Overall Figma supports our needs in agile design process allowing quick iterations seamless collaborations.

Pros

  • Real time Collaborations
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Design System and Component Libraries
  • Plugins and Integrations

Cons

  • Offline mode integrations
  • Advance Prototyping
  • Animation features
  • When File is large team experience lag or file becomes slow
  • Enhanced Collaboration and efficiency led us to shorter project timelines
  • Improved design consistency due to design system led us improved user experience and high retentions
  • Dependency on internet issues sometimes results in possible downtime affecting productivity
Figma UI is clean and user friendly, it's easy for all skill level to navigate, and Collaboration ability is unmatchable compared to other tools in this fields. But sometimes it might take some steep learning curve to learn advance features like prototyping, Auto layout.
Figma compared to other tools has user friendly UI which is very easy for all levels of designers. Compared to Adobe XD and Sketch Figma is stable, while in other tools I have faced software crashing in the middle of the work which resulted in loss of data/design. Compared to other tools it's fast and shows less lag. Collaboration in Figma is very easy as it is cloud based but in XD it's not that smooth working with other designers.

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

Since our Design team works remotely it's very important for us to stay aligned in design perspectives. As Figma is cloud based it's very easy to work with fellow designers and developers without worrying about version control. Getting feedback from the team and stakeholders and other teams is very easy in Figma. But offline capabilities of Figma is not that great although it has basic offline mode but it's not that good as compared to Adobe XD.

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