Figma is the Design Swiss Army Knife you always wish you had
May 31, 2024

Figma is the Design Swiss Army Knife you always wish you had

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Figma Organization

Overall Satisfaction with Figma

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.

Pros

  • Presenting User Research
  • Lo-fi and hi-fi wireframes
  • Web Design Prototypes

Cons

  • Animation
  • More features for components
  • Better variant capabilities
  • Reducing internal churn
  • Increasing GCR (gross cash receipts) due to testing designs that were validated through Figma prototypes
  • Accelerate our design and iteration process
Figma is truly a Swiss army knife in the retrospect that it does everything...but better that you'd expect it to be where you think...hmmm maybe I don't need this prototyping tool, or this design library framework app, or this simpler solution, because I can just use Figma for all of that if I explore it enough and tweak it enough to be what I want. Figma can be a prototyping tool, a design library, a presentation template, anything you want it to be really.

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

Figma is great for conceptualizing lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes for helping stakeholders visualizing a solution. However when it comes to testing that solution, and needing to show that wireframe with interaction through a prototype...Figma still works...but it's not the most ideal solution to do so. A application designed for interaction prototyping (like Principle for example) would be better suited for a situation like that. The ironic thing is however, if Figma had just a bit more prototyping features it would suffice as a prototyping tool and be up to par with other competing prototyping solutions.

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