Why should every designer use Figma? Four essential features you need to know.
Here, we covered why to choose Figma, also features of Figma and what is Figma? We explained Why Every designer should use Figma?
Nowadays, we have seen much time that designs and graphics play an indispensable role in every field to achieve beneficiary results. Every small or big scale company is hiring graphic designers for their potential growth; with that day by day, graphic designerâs obligations are increasing, but it is all set to have a good graphic designer? The answer is No!
It is all about the designerâs skills and which tool he/she uses to create innovative graphics for you. If we talk about the tool, then you must need to aware of the Figma. Oh! No idea, donât worry, we are here to tell you every small thing about Figma. Here we are going to cover what Figma is? Why choose Figma? Its benefits, along with features.
What is Figma?
Figma is a graphic design tool, or we can say a vector graphic designing tool, a web-based graphical designing tool; this means you can use this tool with any web browser; there is no need to install any particular software.
You can access it from anywhere on any machine, whether it is Linux, Windows or Mac. There is an application that is also available for offline designing. Still, most of the designers and experts recommended online mode because it provides more functionality and benefits.
Why Choose Figma?
What are the features of Figma?
There are many features available in Figma, but there are four main features of Figma that give it a unique identity in the graphic designing world.
- Designing
- Prototyping
- Collaboration
- Design System
1. Designing
- IMG Element
- SVG Items inside IMAGE
- Video Element
- Background Image
- Block Level Text Element, which means HTML Element
Responsive Layout:Â Assume you are making any application design and there is some container, and you need to resize it, then you can get with Figma it set everything by itself.
- less manual resigning
- Stretch to fill
- Designs Speak development
Plugins:Â It presents so many plugins that can help you to avoid doing monotonous tasks. There are some important plugins you should use in Figma, and that is.
- Remove BG
- Auto flow
- Color Palettes
- Logo Creator
- Product Planner
Efficiency:Â it provides efficiency and elasticity by giving some small but essential features to give your design a new vision.
- Flexible style
- Design systematically
- Accessible libraries
Turn Developer handoff into a handshake:Â It is a very useable feature by Figma because whenever your design is ready, you can generate code for your designs like CSS or HTML code for buttons and effects so that it reduces the developerâs lode.
- Ultimate Viewers
- Impact Design Files
- Easy Exports
2. Prototyping Features
Prototypes:Â First, let me tell you that what exactly prototyping is; prototyping is one of the useful concepts of designing in which whenever you completed every features design and layout of any mobile application. After that, you can attach that every design in one animation with click events to understand how it will look. For that, Figma provides some useful features that are listed below.
- Intuitive build
- Interactions
- Mobile optimized
Interaction vision:Â You can make animations that show how will your application or website works; it shows if you click any button, then how will that button responds to your click. Therefore, Figma has some features to do this that are listed below.
- Advance transition with smart animates
- Dynamic overlays
- Animated GIFâs
All in one single tool:Â which means you can interact with yours collogue or your head or your clients; let me tell you in simple words this is a very useful feature by Figma that you can share the link of your design to them. They can directly access your design and give you a suggestion based on making it more efficient; it has some features listed below.
- Shareable prototype
- Embedded Commenting
3. Collaboration Feature
Team Design: Typically, this feature is for the company or working in a team. Using this, many people can work on one project to get the best of what they are seeking. Here we can also see which person or which team member did what in the project. We can see every memberâs contribution to the project. There are some more features like this shown below.
- Get the latest update
- Centered around people
- Discover work by a creator
Real-time work: Figma gives functionality to work in real-time in a team, assuming that four team members work on one project. Therefore, it shows four cursors at a time so that you can identify who is doing which task.
Invitation: Using the Invite feature, you can invite any of your team members to work on the project by sharing the file. It has some more functionality shown below.
- Invite people you want
- Share the link to file
- Share or embedded prototypes
Feedback: This feature is mainly targeted at those who are working for any client. Using this feature when you complete your design, you can invite your client to reexamine the design and give design feedback. It incorporates some more functionality offered below.
- Embedded Commenting
- Conversation
4. Designing System Feature
There is one feature like suppose you create a one-button design that you like so much then you can store as a component, and you can reuse it anytime.
Letâs talk about the reusable component; if there is one component, you make that component a master component. You can create a copy of that master components. When you apply any change to the master component, it will reflect all copied components.