Great design tool
February 03, 2025

Great design tool

Aniruddha Ganesh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Figma Professional

Overall Satisfaction with Figma

We use Figma for designing apps, mockups, wireframing, creating icons and creating design docs. It also serves as the reference for our development team to develop apps based on the design. Our devs use the dev mode to make it easier and faster to develop the apps as it provides some styles to be used in the apps. It serves to model user flows in the app and derive use cases as well.

Pros

  • The auto layout makes for great easily configurable designs that are simple to develop and adapt to various devices
  • Dev mode makes dev handoff particularly painless
  • Ease of creating mockups and making quick changes using the editor is nice as well
  • The real time collaboration features enable easy remote communication.

Cons

  • All android phones are chalked up to a 375px width size, while iPhones' resolutions get preferential treatment. With a wider range of resolutions, android could have better support in the design toolbar
  • Pricing for dev mode could be better.
  • Allow devs to install plugins that only run in dev mode.
  • The view only mode got nerfed to make dev mode look better.
  • It has made my life as a developer much simpler. I almost never need to talk to the designer as to the intended purpose of a design element.
  • Figma speeds up the development process
  • With its plugins, it also enables sharing design related tokens and values with the team very easy
With the speed and reliability of Figma, it is a justified score. It has never let me down. While some plugins may be slow, Figma itself is reliably fast. The realtime sharing of cursors and comments enables easy communication even when network is low. The web app is amazingly fast and responsive.
Figma easily wins against Adobe XD. Asset sharing on XD was a pain. Figma makes it really easy by allowing you to export any layer as an asset. XD had no comments making it incredibly hard to communicate with the designer in remote settings. XD's prototyping system was not good and was barely used in any design I worked with.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Figma again?

Yes

Any time you want to design for an app, website or other such use case, Figma is the best choice. When designing icons, sprites, etc., as well Figma really shines. The only place Figma lags is when compared to full blown image editors like Photoshop. But that is a difference use case. One that Figma was not made for.

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