Why I choose Figma?
We know a good design is beyond its looks. It drives people to take action on it. Figma styles a good product into great.
Figma is a unique cloud-based design platform where teams unite by simplifying the design process and offering designers to build efficiency.
Use Figma to brainstorm ideas, iterate designs, create prototypes, and partner with your developer and stakeholders for their comments and feedback in real-time.
Figma is a great way to design, build quickly, and export files for animation and prototyping. Figma keeps teams on task and encourages users to use, share, and browse the design libraries. It is supporting in-app commenting in both design and prototyping modes.
Multiple pages per file option support the Agile team to organize their projects reasonably. Its simple prototyping feature eliminates the need for another tool for exporting or styling prototype. Since our design work relies heavily on collaboration, sharing and discussing, Figma has been vital to meet the design goal.
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Ideating and Brainstorming
A platform for brainstorming supports your need to ideate together. This feature allows you to pitch in anytime to join the conversation with the team. The available stickers, flag, jot down screens, and marker to draw is enhancing the experience of jamming at work. To add more fun, one can react to ideas on the spot with animated emojis and quick chats.
Accommodating Layouts
Auto layout property allows your designs to expand or shrink to build the interface. You can control the spacing between items in an auto-layout frame and resize and control the dimension of the object in the frame. This feature also allows you to nest an auto-layout frame within another to create complex interfaces.
Organizing Information
Writing is sometimes tough and unsatisfying. It costs a lot of time, but you can always improve your writing process, and it results in using an ordered and unordered list. The numbered list provides a structure that your team can follow and can represent sequential information. At the same time, a bulleted list can be used to describe unordered sets of data. Figma currently supports up to five levels of indentation.
Swapping Colors
The color picker in the application allows you to adjust the individual color applied to the object. This feature enables you to update the fill color without affecting the other colors on the object. All you have to do is open the Color Picker to adjust the paint type, color, hue, and opacity. This also provides an option to swap with the color from your Document colors.
Scrolling Actions
This feature allows you to make your prototype, or a nested scrollable container, scroll to any object within the top-level frame. You can pick any entity within the top-level frame, drag and link it to the object you want to set as the terminus.
Switching Workspace
The new feature in Figma allows you to switch between accounts and workspaces. The left top corner drop-down will enable you to change the workspace between the organization workspace and outside the organization workspace, where you are a team member of an external team. Similarly, Figma will list the email addresses of any logged-in accounts to switch back and forth as per requirement.
Navigating Prototypes
Figma’ s prototyping features allow you to create interactive flows that simulate how a user may interact with your designs. The navigating option can support you to move from one screen to another. You can also replace frames from the Swap option.
Exploring Designs
Figma Community allows you to browse and search through thousands of files published, including design systems, icon packs, wireframes, and illustrations. You can duplicate the files to reuse and customize the existing component as per your need or define your brand identity.
Simplifying Asset Library
Figma allows you to group and organize similar components into a single container, simplifying the guesswork with a better-organized container to find what you need. You are also entitled to customize the property of your variant that meets your design system need. You can rename the component to create a level of hierarchy. Publish component enables you to share the asset with a team member so that they can use them.
Linking Pages
To embrace work within the team, Figma makes finding content an easy task by bringing in links that navigate the files for wider information gain. You can now guide teammates through their work by including Links to any page. Also, you don’t have to remember the file name; the quick search feature allows you to filter the results to focus on a specific category without wasting time.
Testing Design
You can preview your designs in the browser with a presentation view. On this screen, you can build, test interactions, and run a usability test. You can also set your prototype’s starting frame, background color, and scaling to determine the display size in the viewport.
Sharing Prototype
Figma supports the entire design community with more ways to collaborate and share as one unit. Sharing your design work is crucial to collaborate with your ideas. The new sharing permission lets you share a prototype without sharing the underlying design file.
To conclude, Figma being a browser application, makes it extremely available. There is no installation required, all you have to do is simply login to the site, and you are all set to start with the design.
What’s your reason to choose Figma?
