Figma for Research teams that scale.

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ — Academy(↘︎Link). This article aims to show how Figma(↘︎Link), let alone FigmaJam(↘︎Link), can bring your research closer to your product team.
To clarify the situation from the beginning of the research, we mean a pre-initiative competitive landscape analysis and basic hoovering of available assets and patterns in your well-established design library.

Landscape Analysis

Before we ask our research colleagues for qualitative and quantitative data(↘︎Link) about the proposition, we need to establish a basic understanding of the landscape we are about to craft.

What

To do so, here are basic understandings that a designer must have to start working on the project:

1. Proposition Brief(↘︎Link) — well, no brief, no project.
2. Existing framework — Design System(↘︎Link) or at least UI KIT(↘︎Link).
3. Brand Research(↘︎Link) — Is there a brand guideline or brand reference
4. Competitive Analysis Research(↘︎Link) — 3–5 direct competitors and their…