Figma is already super powerful and gaining traction, with a few tweaks it will be incredible.
We use Figma for all high-fidelity UX/UI digital solutions using a design system and pattern libraries we have set up using Figma's …
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Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
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What is Figma?
Figma is a design platform that aims to bring together powerful design features you already love and a more efficient workflow. Some features include:
Its plugins help to remove manual, repetitive work, bring in data, and power custom workflows.
- A modern pen tool: Draw in any direction with Vector Networks. No more merging or needing to connect to the path's original point.
- Instant arc designs: Design clocks, watch screens, or pie charts with the Arc tool.
- Be expressive with OpenType: Tap into advanced font features to fully express the brand.
Figma's Autom Layout tool helps users spend more time iterating and less time moving things around.
- Less manual resizing: Buttons can resize with their text and lists can rearrange themselves when items are moved around.
- Stretch to fill: Auto Layout components can now stretch left and right (or top and bottom) for easier responsive design.
- Design speaks development: Auto Layout’s padding, direction, and spacing settings translate directly into code, simplifying developer handoffs.
Its plugins help to remove manual, repetitive work, bring in data, and power custom workflows.
- Plugins for everything: Stock imagery, flow diagrams, color accessibility, charts, and icons.
- Designed for ease: A user that can build a website can build a plugin.
- Private plugins: Organization customers can create and distribute private plugins within their company.
Create prototypes that are like the real experience
Figma helps turn static design files into an interactive experience—no coding required.
- Intuitive build: Simply connect UI elements and choose your interactions and animations.
- Interactions: Define subtle interactions, like on click, while hovering, while pressing a button.
- Mobile-viewing: Experience designs in real life using our Figma mobile app, available for iOS and Android.
- Advanced transitions with Smart Animate: Automagically animate similar objects and create detailed transitions.
- Dynamic overlays: Create multiple layers of interactive content overlays.
- Animated GIFs: Use GIFs to represent motion designs, video elements, and subtle animations.
- All-in-one platform: Toggle between a design file and live prototype. Design edits appear instantly in a prototype.
- Shareable prototype: Share a link to your prototype. View it anywhere with Internet.
- Embedded commenting: Comment in a prototype. They carry over into the design file—so nothing gets lost.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
Figma starts at $15.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of Figma are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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June 07, 2024
Figma is already super powerful and gaining traction, with a few tweaks it will be incredible.
We use Figma for all high-fidelity UX/UI digital solutions using a design system and pattern libraries we have set up using Figma's capabilities. Our extensive design, copy, research, and content team uses it daily for various use cases. The team members are spread across multiple squads, from CRO to Offline, App to Email, and they solve various user and business problems. We also cover numerous brands and have implemented design tokens with Token Studio to switch theming better. Prototyping is used for stakeholder communications and user research with UserZoom, making high-fidelity designs come to life for developers, stakeholders, and participants. Developers use dev mode daily to build from using Storybook and custom designs to create.
- Click through prototypes.
- Design systems.
- Video/gif integration.
- Autolayout
- Plugin availability.
- Sharing and viewing controls.
- Animated prototyping.
- Tappable overlaid layers - bugs on fixed components, such as an app navigation footer in a prototype
- Swapping a component but retaining inputted copy or imagery.
- Performance on prototypes to work better in UserZoom - having to delete hidden layers manually, optimize images, and streamline the file, in general, is time-consuming
- Folder structures - larger teams need multiple layers of folder structure to help find things.
- Branch performance - we need better, more user-friendly solutions to get designs to merge better.
- Branch performance - branching with the option to choose which pages you want in the branch without deleting each page you don't need.
- Default sharing options need improvement.
- Responsive ratios' in prototyping without having to recreate pages.
- Better collaboration with Jira to bring in links in the design mode not just dev mode.
June 05, 2024
A great design tool!
As a product owner, I use Figma regularly for any design component project. I work with a designer who owns the Figma files and is responsible for transforming the gathered requirements for the project to life through designs for the project's intended UI. Figma is a great design tool that allows easy collaboration between product owners/managers, designers, and developers.
- Ease of designing per requirements.
- Ease of cross-functional collaboration.
- Fairly easy to navigate and use, low skill entry barrier for non-designers.
- There is this new functionality where you can backslash to type chat bubbles so collaborators within the file at the same time can essentially chat from where they are. It, unfortunately, has a character limit, and you have to backspace to clear what is initially written.
- I have to go to dev mode to see dev notes. It would be great to be able to see dev notes from the main view somehow.
As a product manager, I think Figma is great because designers can drop in screenshots, and we can edit the copy without risking moving the design around from a visual layout perspective. This enables copy refinement without risking massive accidental design changes. However, I can only give Figma an 8/10 as it still lacks some key prototyping features that other tools like Azure have.
- Figjam whiteboarding.
- Library management.
- Autolayout
- Interactive prototyping.
- Dev mode being forced onto devs.
- Analytics for designers to monitor devs use.
June 05, 2024
Figma Lover and Contributer
The business cases and scope of the use case is in everyday work of UIUX design. We ensure and consolidate design files, design system files, collaborative work files on ideation, as well as cross collaboration with development teams as well. The scope is widely used and ensures that everyone on our team can utilize the product.
- Design Systems
- Design Tokens
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Development Handoff
- Collaboration Tools
- Whiteboarding
- Design System Consolidation
- Developer Knowledge Base
- AI integration
June 05, 2024
The new dominant design tool
I work for an ecommerce company and I use Figma to deliver visual mockups of new feature enhancement and redesigns to development. We used to use Sketch for designing mockups from wireframes but the limitations of Sketch to just mac meant we could not use windows machines plus we needed to pair Sketch with Abstract for version control. Figma is a complete design, collaboration and versioning tool.
- Figma includes robust prototyping features, allowing designers to create interactive and animated prototypes
- Figma integrates well with various other tools and platforms, including Slack, Jira, and user testing tools
- Figma has a vibrant community and a wealth of resources, including templates, plugins, and tutorials.
- Limited offline functionality making it less reliable on the job
- The performance gets slow when working with large or complex files
- It lacks some advanced prototyping features such as more complex animations, micro-interactions like Axure RP
From prototyping to running sessions via FigmaJam, Figma has been quite a productive and efficient tool for us. I would say its a great tool for us to visualise the concept / design and helps anyone who is part of the project to share feedback, or contribute and make decision making faster.
- Prototyping
- Team collabotation
- Build design / UI
- Running workshops
- Offline sync is an issue
- limited local components
June 04, 2024
Using Figma for early product builds brings along the whole team but lacks a little bit of creativity.
We use Figma for product design, asset generation and product management. It lets us ideate, focus, refine, and produce a product that closely matches the user experience we envision early in product discovery. It works well for our designers and developers, as well as giving controller to our project management team through the product development cycle.
- Asset generation
- Team collaboration
- Multi platform support
- Interface discoverability
- Layer management
- Batch asset export
June 04, 2024
Figma is a must-have for product marketing teams
We use Figma for all product and marketing design, prototypes, etc. across our organization. We also use Figma as a brand repository. We've found it to be an incredibly powerful tool and especially love the collaboration that Figma enables across our teams. Figma makes it so much easier to work together.
- Prototypes
- Asset library
- Collaboration
- Frame naming
- File organization
- Pricing could be a bit easier to understand
June 04, 2024
Essential design tool for 2024
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.
- Wireframing
- Website design
- Responsive website design
- Product design
- As an older designer it felt scary to see so little UI (minimal interface)
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.
- 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
- 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
June 03, 2024
Figma is the best tool for design
We use Figma for designing and discussing design cases. Usually, designers create a project on Figma and present that to the team. Afterwards the team reviews the proposal by commenting on Figma. It is quite convenient because nowadays we don't see each other daily. With Figma we can understand each other very well since it is possible to comment on anywhere of the file.
- Keep record of discussions/decisions - we could make use of the discussions and easily understand what others have talked about, then no need for repeated questions
- Collaborate remotely - it is very important that Figma breaks the physical barrier for communication
- I hope there will be an Mac app - I'm basically an app heavy user. I think it is always better to have an app (not a webview one)
June 03, 2024
Figma - The go-to tool for any UX designer
I use Figma for all design projects and visual concept creation. As a UX designer at my company, Figma is our main design software for digital and web products. It continues to be the best in class UX software and allows us to quickly ideate on potential solutions for customer problems, as well as test interactive prototypes for research. The tool also serves as a handoff point between me and our dev teams to see the design brought to accurate, efficient implementation.
- Design Systems
- Scalable Components
- Auto Layout
- UX Design
- Free dev seats
- Easier interface use for non-designer collaborators
Imagine every time you wanted to show stakeholders an updated design the devs would have to code it. After every round of feedback you'd have to essentially dedicate entire sprints in order to build the changes in order to have something to show the clients. Depending on the feedback, it could take devs days or weeks to build. Not only is that a waste of developer time and resources by having them put real dev hours into something that is volatile and could change drastically, but the devs could be spending those hours actually building things that have been approved and need to get built. My team using Figma (and by extension, the designers who use it) helps accelerate our design and iteration process by being able to make "good enough" representations of what our site should look and feel like and incorporate feedback into those designs in a trivial amount of time. This means that the iteration and conceptualization part can take place without using too much dev time and resources.
- Presenting User Research
- Lo-fi and hi-fi wireframes
- Web Design Prototypes
- Animation
- More features for components
- Better variant capabilities
May 31, 2024
Figma Review
We use Figma to help mock up new services/applications that we are going to be building. And even for existing applications, Figma is used to help design new workflows and user experiences. Without a visual, working through the details with stakeholders can be quite challenging. Figma helps bridge the gap and solve that problem.
- Mock-ups
- Real time collaboration
- Accessibility
- Offline functionality
- Handling large files
- Advanced animation
May 31, 2024
One of my favourite tools for daily work!
Score 10 out of 10
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I've found many use cases for Figma: - UI design - views for all kinds of screens, interactive prototypes for clients - Social media posts - creating infographics or carousels for Instagram or LinkedIn, getting feedback from teammates directly on each design - Data flows visualisation - creative diagrams, nice to look at - Daily brainstorming collaboration - ideas lists, moodboards, even trips planning!
- Nice performance - even with complex projects
- Multiplatform availability
- Variety of use cases
- Unlimited possibilities of plugins and extensions
- The performance is good but as with all electron-based apps it always can be better!
- More possibilities on mobile apps
- More features for developers
May 31, 2024
Love Figma!
I use Figma daily. we have several use cases that we use it for. One is to design web page component prototypes to present to stakeholders. The other is to review other designer's design wireframes and protypes and provide feedback within Figma. Another use case I use it a lot for is to play around with ideas, whether it be to help me organize my thoughts, or come up with quick visuals.
- easy to use and navigate
- uses similar patterns as Adobe which helps a lot for people who are transitioning from those platforms.
- there are a lot of helpful resources to help me solve things im stuck on.
- If there was a Loom integration, or a way in which i could record both my screen and face at the same time to explain certain concepts to my collegues, that would be really nice
- The main area where you can see your team folder, personal folder, and the rest of the organizations teams could use a bit of simplification
- when it comes to sharing libraries, there is some laguange that could help make the sharing process easier to understand.
May 31, 2024
A necessary tool for a Designer
Figma is essential for me to complete my day-to-day tasks. It helps me collaborate easily with other designers, engineers and product managers to create anything quickly from basic wireframes using various plug-ins to complex high fidelity prototypes using our design systems.
- Easy to use and navigate tooling to create designs
- Ability to collaborate and co-design with others
- Regular feature updates that optimise design creation
- To become a master you have to spend a lot of time learning, some things within prototyping can take a long time to figure out
As a UX and Product Design team leader, we use Figma daily to design experiences, create clickable prototypes to share and perform user testing, run brainstorming workshops with FigJam, and manage our Design System. Figma solves so many business problems, including the ability to collaboratively create experiences across the UX and product teams and provide tokens for our developers. Like most design teams, we need to be able to test our work with users. Figma allows for rapid prototyping that we can share with the world to get real-time user feedback through our user testing tool. In addition, we have set up our design system in Figma. It has allowed for easy collaboration and communication with designers across the company and seamless execution for our developers using tokenization.
- Prototype
- Collaboration
- Code
- Lack of AI features, but I know they're coming.
In our organization, Figma is crucial for design and development, enhancing collaboration, efficiency, and consistency. Teams work simultaneously on design files, enabling real-time collaboration, design reviews, and quick iterations. We build mood boards to set visual direction and use interactive prototypes for visualization and testing. Figma's design systems, including component libraries and style guides, ensure consistency across projects. It streamlines handoffs to developers. Additionally, we use Figma for client presentations and workshops, facilitating effective feedback and collaboration.
- collaboration ( file sharing, control access, comments etc )
- create an environment where both experts and beginners can get stuff done
- Provide tools for building complex design systems
- low level drawing tools like the pen tool and primitive shapes are not as intuitive as the industry standard tools
- the file management system actually works fine, but it could be improved to make sure it's easier to understand for beginners or people with limited access
- the pricing system (seats) is not transparent and can create surprises in some cases
May 30, 2024
More than a simple design tool
We use Figma for creating prototypes, enabling real-time collaboration, and coordinating functionalities. It also facilitates presenting designs and conducting review processes. This helps address problems by streamlining the design workflow, improving team collaboration, and ensuring clear communication across remote teams and customers. Another smaller use case is to get ideas via templates and from shared Figma's from other users.
- Prototyping
- Templates
- Real-time Collaboration
- Useability
- Knowledge Base
- In larger files, zooming is sometimes difficult
- Exports to PDF
May 30, 2024
Figma, the best design tool of the hour
Figma is a goto tool we use when we start our work everyday. Few years back we used to use different design tools and had to use different software for prototyping and sharing design files which was bit difficult to manage. Now the situation is that every design is created, shared, reviewed and researched are from Figma. It really makes Design and research work easy.
- Flexibility in design, many plugins as added advantage
- Ease of Prototyping
- Seamless collaboration and sharing design files to stakeholders
- Easy to track on component usage Analytics, I love this feature
- Adding GenAI to create content based on provided prompt would be game changing
- Integration with other Collaboration tools like (Miro) could help cater larger audiance
- May be making prototyping more easy and fun (its much better now compared to other design tools)
May 28, 2024
Figma is still the best one around
We use Figma not only for prototyping, but also for collaborative discussions on calls, squads planning and retros, presentations and all hands meetings - for example, we have a template for newbies present theirselves in our all hands, and also we use Figjam for icebreakers / playtime every Friday.
- Prototype animations
- Version history
- Multiplayer tool
- Figma mobile app. It's a mess and doesn't have all the features that I need
- Search / organization
- Tabs - they keep coming up and it's a mess. Could be something like Chrome to group my tabs for easy access. (I know that favorites exist, but sometimes I have to hop to a file in a call and it's easier when it's already opened
May 28, 2024
Design and collaboration made easy
The product team uses Figma for mockups and wireframes, our UI designers use it for our designs and design systems and we all use Figjam for brainstorming and meetings. It is our primary design tool.
- design
- collaboration
- prototyping
- organization
- document structure
May 28, 2024
Great design tool all over
We are using figma for UX/UI design tasks as well as for creating digital campaign creatives for various digital advertising channels.for UX/UI and product design related projects it is essential for us to use because not only makes it the testing process seamless but it is also a very handy tool to help up cooperate with other teams and this way they can give feedback more easily.
- intuitive user experience
- easy cooperation
- wide range of design possibilities
- selection within folders for export
- layer names
- ai features
May 27, 2024
Top-notch and fully functional tool
We use Figma for web, apps, prototyping design.
In my role, I use it for Workshop facilitation, internal planning, and collaborative sessions with the team. Also for clients' presentations and social media content desing
In my role, I use it for Workshop facilitation, internal planning, and collaborative sessions with the team. Also for clients' presentations and social media content desing
- Intuitive and friendly to use
- For designers, the learning curve is smooth when coming from traditional software
- Easy and effective prototype tool to show interactions
- Great and seamless integration for DEV team
- Multiple templates and diy options for FigJam boards
- Easy to share
- Dealing with heavy vector files
- same editable properties than Figma for figjam files
- guest limits with no charge