Figma for Crafting the User-friendly Design Solutions
December 09, 2024
Figma for Crafting the User-friendly Design Solutions
Score 9 out of 10
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I oversee the In-house UX/Product Design team for the organization aka company that I work for. I serve as the UX Authority in the leadership-level role within the company. I and my Product Designers in my Design team use Figma to craft the user-friendly UX design concepts and solutions for our SaaS Advertising Tech products/platforms that accommodate 2 lines of business: Demand side for the Advertisers and Ads Agencies & Supply side products for the Publishers type of user profiles.
Pros
- Figma can be used to craft great UX design solutions via modern generation web browsers as well as Desktop app which enables multiple product designers and cross-functional product squad team members to collaborate together quite well.
- Easy to create UI components and set up a common design system components library and IxD patterns showcase library for cross-functional product squad teams to utilize and be aligned among different disciplines (UX/PD, PM, Eng)
- Create clickable prototype to simulate the intended user experience that can be utilized throughout the conceptual design stage, including for usability testing research studies all the way through the detailed design stage of high-fidelity mocks & prototype and during Implementation stage when the Engineers use the Dev Mode to access the design specs in order to build the software products accordingly.
Cons
- It will be great if Figma will consider having the Pages where interactions can be stitched together among the Pages and not just one page with so many Frames to create the stand-alone clickable prototype that can be used to simulate the intended UX
- Bring back the Inspect Mode tab right on the right-side panel of the main workspace instead of hiding behind the Dev Mode.
- Figma Slides feature could be improved quite a bit more in order to be easier to assemble slides into a presentation deck and having pre-built templates for slides can be useful too.
- We have the Figma Org Plan subscription on the annual renewal basis, and we use Figma exclusively for all of our digital product design initiatives/projects. As we are still a very small & lean In-house UX/Product Design team, we see the value in using Figma to curate our Design System libraries which allow us to collaborate and partner with our PMs and Engineers quite well on multiple product design & development initiatives.
I prefer using Figma the most so far during the past several years over tools like JustInMind and/or UX Pin.
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
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