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16 March , 2021

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 designer’s obligations are increasing, but it is all set to have a good graphic designer? The answer is No!

It is all about the designer’s 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, don’t 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?

As we know, experts prefer Adobe XD for windows and Sketch for Mac, but there is some drawback is that you cannot use all features of Adobe XD in mac, same with Sketch, you cannot use it in windows; therefore, Figma comes up with a new solution Figma is a combination of Adobe XD and Sketch, which runs into every machine, whether it is windows or mac. Let me tell you that Figma is a cloud-based application; it stores all your data into cloud storage which provides more efficiency.

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

Figma provides you with some essential tool that you cannot find out anywhere else. There is hundreds of device available, but some valuable tools are here which I am going to introduce you with a brief description.

Pen Tool: You probably think that what is new in the pen tool? It is provided by every software, Right! But here, Figma gives you more functionality with the pen tool. Imagine that you can draw any direction with vector networks; there is no need to merging to connect to the path’s original point.

IMG Element
SVG Items inside IMAGE
Video Element
Background Image
Block Level Text Element, which means HTML Element

Responsive Layout: 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: 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: 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: 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 developer’s lode.

Ultimate Viewers
Impact Design Files
Easy Exports

2. Prototyping Features

Prototypes: 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: 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 GIF’s

All in one single tool: 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

Here Figma provides you collaboration feature, which can permit you to work with many designers on one project at a time.

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 member’s 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

Many buttons or designs are designing use repetitively; the main drawback is if you need to change the button style of all button, you need to do this one by one, but Figma has a solution. Using the designing system feature, you can make changes in one button, which is applied with all the controls you select.

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.

Let’s 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.

Conclusion

So, in the end, this so all about Figma. This how you can use the functionality of Figma and make a revolutionary design for your business. Let me briefly describe what we have covered in this article; till now, we have seen what Figma is? As we know, Figma is a web-based tool for designing. Why should every designer use Figma? There are main features that can attract you to use Figma. You can read out that in-depth in the upper section. Get the latest and quality information directly to your mailbox by just subscribing to our newsletter.

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